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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

Bloomerang

The importance of a cost-benefit analysis for your fundraising strategies. James Greenfield is the guru of fundraising cost-benefit analysis. When it comes to individual giving, an acceptable cost-benefit ratio can depend on a range of factors: Your organization’s history, age, and size. Local demographics. raised ratio?

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Finding a Nonprofit Partner: Who is the Right One?

BoardAssist

What external elements affect your sector, market, demographic? Examples include: Program depth and breadth, staff adequacy, demographics, board/funder representation and financial stability. Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization). What is your financial condition? See step 5 for more).

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Twitter Demographics. The Cute Dog Theory.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Demographics How many people visit the site? What is your post to comment ratio? The Web is changing! The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation. What's interesting is the acronym aelia stands for Jerusalem ). Audience: Who is coming? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. What do they click on?

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