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2017

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The Nonprofit Nerd (December 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University Dec 2017

The Nonprofit Nerd (December 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

This edition of the Nonprofit Nerd features research highlights, Nerds at Work, and news from the Nonprofit Institute.


The Nonprofit Nerd (October 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University Oct 2017

The Nonprofit Nerd (October 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

This month’s theme is Equity in Evaluation!

If you’ve been following along the past few months you may have seen that NPI is working with the latest cohort of our Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Program Evaluation to bring evaluation tools into their organizational equity work. Measuring progress toward our goals is a critical part of every organization’s learning, improvement and accountability to the communities we serve.

But what about the equity implications of how we actually do evaluation? What does it mean to employ an equity lens in our approach to evaluation itself—the questions we ask, the data we collect, …


The Nonprofit Nerd (June 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University Jun 2017

The Nonprofit Nerd (June 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

What happens when a grant-maker and grant-writer learn evaluation together?

Jonathan Frochtzwaig and Deborah Vaughn were already acquainted when they came together last fall for our 2016 Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Program Evaluation. Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest Washington was a past grant recipient from the Oregon Arts Commission. What did they learn from their experiences and from each other as they went through the training program together? Read on to find out!

Let the resources and insights we share in The Nonprofit Nerd inspire you to get your nerd on and find innovative ways to make research and …


The Nonprofit Nerd (March 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University Mar 2017

The Nonprofit Nerd (March 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

This month’s theme is Evidence‐Based Budgeting!

Whether you’re a newly‐minted nonprofit employee or a seasoned executive director, chances are good that you are impacted by your organization’s budget process. And if you’re like many nonprofit professionals, you might now be in the midst of building a program or organizational budget for your upcoming fiscal year. While there is no universally right or wrong way to write a budget, you can save yourself some headaches later by using good data and information to inform your planning.

This month, we explore the role of data in budget planning! Let the resources …


The Nonprofit Nerd (January 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University Jan 2017

The Nonprofit Nerd (January 2017), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

This month’s theme is Using Data for Social Change.

As we wish you Happy New Year this month, we at The Nonprofit Institute also want to say thank you to the people and organizations who are working on the front lines to ensure our community is a safe place for people of all identities, faiths and nationalities. We are committed to supporting nonprofit organizations in the days ahead, and we have much work to do.