When it comes to your nonprofit’s data, you should trust no one if you want to keep it safe. Adam Rosenzweig, program manager at Okta for Good, tells clients that a “Zero Trust” approach is the most effective way to keep predators away from your data. Here is an...
University of Arizona students taking up Program Planning and Evaluation collaborated with Tucson-based Beads of Courage to develop a model for self-evaluation. The self-evaluation process will help the nonprofit make data-informed decisions about their programs and...
A Chronicle of Philanthropy study involving more than 10,000 nonprofit employees from 865 organizations revealed that top-level officers from hospitals and private colleges earns so much more than their colleagues in other sectors. Here is an excerpt from a report...
Effective learning is the key to effective evaluation say Julia Coffman and Tanya Beer of the Center of Evaluation Innovation based in Washington D.C. The two assert that nonprofits must constantly ask the right questions and fight their own biases in order to employ...
As more and more donors begin to demand evidence-based reports of the impacts of their donations, nonprofits will have to say goodbye to the anecdote-based chronicles of yesteryear that relied on heartwarming stories but few measurable facts. Salesforce.org’s...
The metrics people learn in MBA programs are not the best way to measure the effectiveness of nonprofits, asserts Phil Buchanan, CEO of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. Just because you can gather measurable data does not mean that particular mass of data is...