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2008 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study: An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising and Advocacy Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations Note: This resource is free, but you must supply your name and email to download it from the authors' website.
Author: M+R Strategic Services; Nonprofit Technology Network Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2008
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2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study: An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising, Advocacy, Social Media and Mobile Metrics... Note: This resource is free, but you must supply your name and email to download it from the authors' website.
2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study: An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising, Advocacy, Social Media and Mobile Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations
Author: M+R Strategic Services; Nonprofit Technology Network Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.25 MB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #5, February 2009) The fifth edition of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update (AEU) newsletter includes the following:
1. News from the Advocacy Evaluation Advances convening in California;
2. Advocacy evaluation session summaries from the American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual meeting;
3. AEA 2009 call for sessions; and
4. News on the upcoming Foundation Review issue on advocacy and policy change.
Author: Innovation Network Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Feb 1, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Download (350.84 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #8, January 2010) In this issue:
1. Feature: Rhonda Schlangen discusses advocacy evaluation lessons learned in Nigeria and Kenya.
2. Spotlight: System Mapping in Advocacy Planning and Evaluation
3. Profile: Center for Evaluation Innovation
4. Editor's Picks: Two new resources from Cause Communications and Keystone Accountability.
This issue was produced with support from The California Endowment and The Atlantic Philanthropies.Author: The Center for Evaluation Innovation; Innovation Network, Inc. Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jan 14, 2010 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (266.75 KB) -
Advocacy, Poiltics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million
effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S. immigration system.
Among the topics covered:
Author: Innovation Network and Atlantic Philanthropies Type: Research & Reports Date: Mar 1, 2016 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.98 MB) -
Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S.Author: Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj Type: Research & Reports Date: May 1, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.98 MB) -
Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide Produced by Asibey Consulting for The Communications Network, this report was created for philanthropic organizations and nonprofits seeking to evaluate and improve their communications. The authors conducted surveys and interviews to examine current practices in communications evaluation. This document includes several worksheets to help readers take action on the report's recommendations. Author: Asibey Consulting and The Communications Network Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2008
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Dataviz! Or, How to Win at Communication and Influence People (Resources Handout) Are you intrigued by data and information visualization—dataviz—and how it could improve your communication strategy? Are you interested in the range of dataviz options, but unsure which is right for you? Or are you maybe even drowning in data and looking for someone to throw you a life-saving suggestion for tools to transform your data into a message?
Author: Johanna Morariu Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: May 17, 2013 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (510.3 KB) -
Do-It-Yourself Logic Models: Examples, Templates, and Checklists [Handout] Logic models are nonprofit road maps: they help you diagram where you are now and where you hope to be in the future. They are used for program planning, program management, fundraising, communications, consensus-building, and evaluation planning.
Author: Johanna Morariu and Ann Emery, Innovation Network Type: Templates & Samples Date: Feb 25, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (105.1 KB) -
Evaluation Capacity Building: Examples and Lessons from the Field Innovation Network developed these three introductory evaluation documents as part of Building Nonprofit Capacity to Evaluate, Learn, and Grow Impact, a workshop we presented in partnership with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Scaling What Works initiative. Author: Johanna Morariu, Innovation Network, Inc. Type: Research & Reports Date: Apr 1, 2012 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
From the War on Poverty to an Economy that Works for All This publication about the effort to reframe the "war on poverty" to "low wage work" offers an example of an advocacy campaign that monitored and evaluated its own activities. One of the lessons learned from the advocacy effort specifically is in regard to monitoring and evaluating: "Advocates and activists must be flexible and open-minded about evaluating the degree to which an approach is working or not working, if any change is to be made." Author: Shulman, Sarah Type: Research & Reports Date: Mar 1, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (543.15 KB) -
Measuring Influence: Advocacy Evaluation Challenges and Successes This resource was created as an introduction to advocacy evaluation, and its intended audience is nonprofit staff with no evaluation expertise or experience. Knowledge Manager & Webmaster Simone Parrish developed this article as a synthesis of lessons learned from Innovation Network's advocacy evaluation work from 2005 to 2008. Now a single 16-page document, the article was originally presented as a five-part, weekly series on Grantstation.com in the fall of 2008. Author: Simone Parrish Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: May 28, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.39 MB) -
Online Outreach Tools Guide This quick-reference guide from Cause Communications is for those considering how to use the Internet and online tools to further their policy change agenda. Demystifying "high-tech" terms, the guide takes a high-level look at Web 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, social networking sites, and Twitter, and their relative strengths and weaknesses for achieving different communications and policy objectives. The guide also suggests quantitative and qualitative metrics to use with each tool. Author: Cause Communications Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Oct 27, 2009 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (223.04 KB) -
Pathfinder Advocate Edition: A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Pathfinder is a practical guide to the advocacy evaluation process. This edition guides advocates through the advocacy evaluation process from start to finish. Editions for evaluators and funders are also available. Drawn from Innovation Network’s research and consulting experience, Pathfinder encourages the adoption of a “learning-focused evaluation” approach, which prioritizes using knowledge for improvement. Author: Innovation Network Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Nov 1, 2009 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.12 MB) -
Pathfinder Evaluator Edition: A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Pathfinder is a practical guide to the advocacy evaluation process. This edition guides evaluators through the advocacy evaluation process from start to finish. Editions for advocates and funders are also available. Drawn from Innovation Network’s research and consulting experience, Pathfinder encourages the adoption of a “learning-focused evaluation” approach, which prioritizes using knowledge for improvement. Author: Innovation Network Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Nov 1, 2009 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.4 MB) -
Pathfinder Funder Edition: A Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Pathfinder is a practical guide to the advocacy evaluation process. This edition guides funders through the advocacy evaluation process from start to finish. Editions for advocates and evaluators are also available. Drawn from Innovation Network’s research and consulting experience, Pathfinder encourages the adoption of a “learning-focused evaluation” approach, which prioritizes using knowledge for improvement. Author: Innovation Network Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Nov 1, 2009 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.17 MB) -
The Communication Initiative Network An extensive website of resources related to communication for development, with a strongly international reach. Available topics include baseline data, programme experience, evaluation and planning methodologies, theories of change, and more. The site also offers active discussion forums and an e-newsletter, The Drum Beat.
Author: The Communication Initiative Network Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link