John Kenyon , Jennie Anderson, AIDS.gov , and William Neuheisel, DC Central Kitchen Imagine When we reviewed their website statistics, we found that nobody ever visited that calendar. Two excellent examples of effective online communications are AIDS.gov and DC Central Kitchen. Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders. Each Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails.

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. Users are more likely to download a full report after seeing a compelling stat or chart, than to wade through a long report in hopes of finding a useful statistical nugget. Check out their " Where Do You Fit " series, which asks users simple questions, and then visually shows where they fit statistically against the survey pool. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications Policy-oriented In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports

All statistics are from Trinet Internet Solutions, Inc . Trinet is a full-service web firm, with offices in California and Washington DC and over 60 web design professionals , specializing in strategy consulting, design, development and online fundraising. Ron Weber, Trinet Internet Solutions, Inc. As As

An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent. (George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos, “Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update,” Policy Research Working Paper 2881 [Washington, D.C.: Phil Borges, with foreword by Madeleine Albright, Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World [New York: Rizzoli, 2007], 13.) " These statistics come from The Girl Effect , a web site created by the Nike Foundation and NoVo Foundation to educate people about the positive impact educating and empowering girls can have on a community. Did you know: " • An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent.

Thompson is now Director of Editorial Research for the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, DC. Even with some outliers and statistical fluctuations — that's not good comparative performance by higher education institutions. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) recently released a report called "Click Here to Donate: Results of the CASE 2009 Survey of Online Fundraising." quot; The report was prepared by Dr.

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. One of my Twitter followers, @persistance pointed me to Shireen Mitchell (aka @digitalsista ) who is moderating a session at BlogHer, DC about online community building for political action. She notes that it is difficult to find that precise information as data about people of color is often missing from social networking studies. Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants.

Looks like Steffanie Rivers read some of the same disturbing statistics I did. The Washington DC based Rivers has initiated a 28-Day Chocolate Fast that started on February 1st, and she is organizing a silent protest outside of M&M/Mars headquarters on Tuesday, Feb. If you would like more information about the protest, you can email her at teamtcbadvertising@hotmail.com or check out the Washington DC Fair Trade Coalition Meetup page for information about another DC-based M&Ms/Mars protest. Last August I wrote a post, Pink M&Ms and Fair Trade , about child slavery in the chocolate industry.

Over the long term, this kind of idea is such that we'd be able to run statistics on ourselves, to see what our impact is, and to see what more we can do as individuals in our work environments, in our practices, and just the things that we can do to continue to make a local difference. I think that's a really important aspect to it because even if you're in, for example DC, you might find that there's a space being started up in Virginia that's close enough by, or you can cross the border and work there. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s

That was one of the main conclusions emerging from a riveting discussion last week in Washington, DC led by two nonprofit CEO’s who have participated in several mergers and strategic alliances in recent years. Last Friday’s timely discussion started with Ottenhoff’s reporting the sobering statistic that 8 percent (about 240) of the 3,000 nonprofits that Guidestar surveyed recently said they were in “imminent danger” of having to shut down for financial reasons. Nonprofits should consider teaming up, one way or another, to survive the current economic downturn and keep their missions alive.

Social Actions is committed to making freely available the statistics we generate on flows of philanthropic activity. DC (3) Below are the most popular search terms for November 2008. I have included all terms that were submitted to our search engine two or more times.