MESI 2010: Many foundations do not use evaluation

April 1, 2010
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Photo by cambodia4kidsorg As mentioned in previous posts, Ricardo Millett was a keynote speaker at the 2010 MESI. During his talk, Millett shared that according to the Center for Effective Philanthropy, around 75% of foundations don’t use evaluation for their programs/processes. Additionally, the foundations that do use evaluation tend to expect it from those they [...]

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Is your website accessible?

March 29, 2010
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Photo by scarydan With all the amazing conferences, trainings, webinars, and workshops it’s hard to attend them all. When I miss one, I will often look to the conference website for session handouts and presentations to see what I missed. Last week was the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Technology Conference, and one of the sessions [...]

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Top 3 Weekly Blog Posts for Nonprofit Workers

March 26, 2010

Photo by Leo Reynolds 1. How to be a Critical Consumer of Nonprofit Research by Nonprofit Leadership 601 2. Nonprofit Blog Exchange Roundup #33 by Nonprofit Blog Exchange 3. Data-fest: Great new stats and insights on social media, Twitter, mobile by Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog

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MESI 2010: Should foundations be putting more resources into policy development?

March 25, 2010

Photo by Stellas mom As mentioned in previous posts, Ricardo Millett was a keynote speaker at the 2010 MESI. During his talk, he quoted Dr. Martin Luther King: Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -Martin Luther King, Jr. This quote [...]

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