Boosting Fundraising Skills with Assessments and Training - Resource Center - AFP

Boosting Fundraising Skills with Assessments and Training - Resource Center - AFP: "A Charity of Choice

Like most charitable organizations, the American Red Cross relies heavily on volunteer and community donations to deliver its mission of preventing and relieving suffering, domestically and abroad, through five key service areas: disaster relief, military family aid, blood services, health and safety education and training. In an increasingly crowded non-profit arena however, the American Red Cross needed to reaffirm its position as a “charity of choice” among individual, corporate and foundation donors. To accomplish this, the development group looked to introduce a program to improve the fundraising skills of individual employees by providing them with a formal process for engaging prospective donors and expanding existing donor relationships."



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Software to Support Program Evaluation by Laura Quinn of Idealware | Community Techknowledge

Software to Support Program Evaluation by Laura Quinn of Idealware | Community Techknowledge: Defining Your Evaluation Process

Program evaluation is not primarily a technology issue. Software can help you track and analyze the data you’ll need, but in order to make any meaningful conclusions, you need to first carefully identify certain things. What are you trying to accomplish? How can it be effectively measured? Which data points will you actually use, and what will be most helpful in truly understanding what’s working? No matter how powerful it is, software can’t help with evaluation until you’ve defined the process that will be most effective for your organization.