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4/7/16

Building Empathy

In the past year I’ve been involved with a few projects at Corona that involve evaluating programming for teenagers. One commonality across these projects is that the organizations have been interested in building empathy in teenagers. As I’ve been reading through the literature on empathy, I’ve been thinking about how building empathy should be a […]

By Kate DarwentRead More

3/29/16

DIY Tools: Network Graphing

Analyzing Corona’s internal data for our annual retreat is one of my great joys in life.  (It’s true – I know, I’m a strange one.)  For the last few years I’ve included an analysis of teamwork at Corona.  Our project teams form organically around interests, strengths, and capacity, so over the course of a year […]

By Beth MulliganRead More

3/22/16

Making improvements through A/B testing

Did you know that when you visit Amazon.com the homepage you see may be different than the one someone else sees, even beyond the normal personalized recommendations? It’s been widely reported how Amazon is continually tweaking their homepage by running experiments, or A/B tests (sometimes referred to as split tests), to tease out what makes a […]

By David KennedyRead More

3/9/16

Where are we now? The new next era nonprofit

I spent the other afternoon sitting around a large table chatting with professionals from across the sector about leadership, and the competencies that an effective leader will need in 2025. As we were chatting about today’s realities – and the social, political, technical and economic factors affecting nonprofits – it struck me that we’ve been here […]

By Karla RainesRead More

3/8/16

Turning Passion into Actionable Data

Nonprofits are among my favorite clients that we work with here at Corona for a variety of reasons, but one of the things that I love most is the passion that surrounds nonprofits.  That passion shines through the most in our work when we do research with internal stakeholders for the nonprofit.  This could include […]

By Mollie BoettcherRead More

2/17/16

Informal Research for Nonprofit Organizations

While Corona serves all three sectors (private, public, and nonprofit) in our work, we have always had a soft spot for our nonprofit clients.  No other type of organization is asked to do more with less, so we love working with nonprofits to help them refine their strategies to be both more effective at fulfilling […]

By Matt HerndonRead More