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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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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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Beyond the Rainbow—Build a Diverse Board of Independent Thinkers

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They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. A bigger portfolio of ideas is needed to evaluate the complex challenges in a post-pandemic world characterized by volatility and change.

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5 Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit Website’s SEO

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Check with your team’s designated web expert to evaluate your website regarding basic technical standards. Organize Your Content – Aid search engines in deciphering your content by using a clear outline structure, almost like you would for an essay. 2) Technical Details Matter, Too.

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

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It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience.

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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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Delivering Excellence in the Age of AI or Association 4.0

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Self-evaluation isn’t easy. Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge. Know Who You Are With an action-oriented structure in place, you have the foundation for exploring probing questions like these: Why does the association exist?