by Kari Anderson | Feb 20, 2019 | Evaluations, Finances, Fundraising, Gifts, legal
Federal grants can be a great resource for nonprofits. A good practice is to have diversified funding/revenue streams for your organization. Strive for 30/30/30—about 30 percent from private foundations, 30 percent from events or annual giving, and 30 percent from...
by Kari Anderson | Jan 23, 2019 | Evaluations, News, Organizational Planning
Impact over Output This week, we continue exploring data to drive us toward positive results. It is important for all of us in the nonprofit sector to be able to show the impact of our work—the outcome. This approach moves us away from looking at the “outputs” of our...
by Kari Anderson | Jan 16, 2019 | Evaluations, News, Organizational Planning, Staff topics
How do we know the work of our nonprofit is making a difference? It’s a question that nonprofit executives have been contemplating since the creation of the 501(c)3 tax code. And we should know if we are making a difference. And we should share that information with...
by Kari Anderson | Aug 15, 2018 | Evaluations, legal, Policies, Recordkeeping, Staff topics
Managing employees is an important part of your nonprofit. The documents relating to employee management, thus, are another important set of documents for your nonprofit—much like the organizational documents we explored last week. These documents, however, are...
by Kari Anderson | Jul 25, 2018 | Evaluations, Volunteers
Volunteers are important to our nonprofit organizations. A really great volunteer program is going to have a process for evaluating volunteers. If you aren’t evaluating your volunteers, you are not alone—many others are not doing this important task. It may seem odd...
by Kari Anderson | Jun 13, 2018 | Evaluations
We’ve explored evaluation topics for several weeks and want to offer one more week of evaluation information—focusing on tools and resources. There are many compelling reasons to evaluate—your staff, your leadership, your programs—and none are quite as compelling as...
