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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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Creating Your 2025 Roadmap to Excellence 

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Steps to Assess Current Capabilities: Evaluate Digital Readiness: Review your digital tools, infrastructure, and staff skills to identify areas for improvement. Create a Timeline with Milestones and Deliverables A well-structured timeline provides clarity and focus.

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Asking better questions to create more equitable outcomes 

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How do we know whether we’re asking the “right” questions, in the “right” way, when designing and evaluating programs? These questions can help design research and evaluations that are more inclusive when determining what is studied, how it is studied, and how the findings are used within nonprofit organizations and beyond.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

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That’s why setting up the board’s structures and bylaws with care is one of the most important things a nonprofit founder can do. The board agreement is signed by board members and spells out their responsibilities, while the bylaws lay out the composition, structure, and rules under which the board operates.

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Report calls for shift to more equitable evaluation practices

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A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. In their engagement with the framework, practitioners identified three key shifts in mindset: from “doing” to “being” (i.e.,

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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To lead in DEI: Disrupting inequality requires disrupting culture  

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Expanding the DEI lens: Equitable and inclusive structures In 2015, we focused on building a solid HR infrastructure, constantly evaluating our efforts in the context of DEI. pay structure and created an adaptable approach for our regional offices where reliable living wage data wasn’t available.

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