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Digital Collaboration for NGOs: 5 Signs Your Team Is Stuck in the Past

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· 11 min read
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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

What digital collaboration means for NGOs, the five legacy work habits that hold teams back, and a 10-point checklist to score your own organization.

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What is a Theory of Change? A Practical Guide for NGOs

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· 8 min read
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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

A practical guide to the theory of change for NGOs: how it differs from a logframe and results framework, and why tech's OKRs are the same idea.

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AI for Nonprofits: A Practical Maturity Framework (Crawl, Walk, Run)

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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

How can NGOs adopt AI responsibly? A three-stage maturity framework for nonprofits, from chatbot fluency to agentic workflows, with guidance on data protection and prompting.

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Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: A Practical Guide for NGOs

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· 7 min read
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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

Five steps to building an M&E framework that works in practice: theory of change, selecting indicators, designing data collection, reporting structures, and learning loops that feed findings back into decisions.

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Finding Better Ways to Build Digital Solutions for NGOs

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Ninette Adhikari
Engineering and Operations

Why NGOs should build digital solutions iteratively: start with a functional skateboard, gather real-world feedback, and develop toward the right product rather than designing in a silo.

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How to Design an M&E System for NGOs: A Practical Framework

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· 5 min read
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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

How to prioritize features in your NGO monitoring and evaluation system using the Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability framework. A practical guide to balancing user needs, technical capacity, and organizational strategy.

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Part 2: Digital Principles Guiding Our Work

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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

Four principles for practical digital development: integrating with existing systems, defining an MVP, choosing between technical solutions and procedures, and evaluating features with the DFV matrix.

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Part 1: Digital Principles Guiding Our Work

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Andrew Pham
Product and Design

Four foundational principles for building digital solutions for NGOs: designing with the user, defining system boundaries, establishing common data standards, and building with scale in mind.

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