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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization.

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Be the Change! Share The Story! School Video Contest

Have Fun - Do Good

Dig out that camcorder 'cause Quantum Shift TV has launched a video contest with social impact for students in the U.S. Student teams will work on social or environmental projects of their choice and document their progress in a series of two short videos. and Canada grades one through twelve: Be the Change! Share the Story!

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Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Need some metrics guidelines? Quantitatively, thats worth quite a bit as no one has been able to calculate this metric so thoroughly before. The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator. Job well done!

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Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Need some metrics guidelines? Quantitatively, thats worth quite a bit as no one has been able to calculate this metric so thoroughly before. The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator. Job well done!

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Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Need some metrics guidelines? Quantitatively, thats worth quite a bit as no one has been able to calculate this metric so thoroughly before. The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator. Job well done!

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning. Identify what you key success metric is. The Here and Now Marketing Implications for Nonprofits.

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How I'm Celebrating My 53rd Birthday: Cambodia, Chocolate, and Class

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Metric: Content created.

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