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4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit

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You want your donors to trust your work, your impact, your stewardship of resources, and your connection to the community, and stand out in a sea of information. But only 16% of nonprofits in the Guidestar database of 14,000 organizations actually take the time to actively be more transparent. Why Aren’t Nonprofits More Transparent?

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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

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Proving to your nonprofit’s stakeholders that your organization is “worthy” of their financial support is an ongoing responsibility for nonprofit management. . Those who commit to the organization’s mission – clients, donors, board members, and staff – all have opinions about the optimal spending levels to execute the mission.

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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

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Following them has allowed my work to resonate with a larger audience and honors the mission of the organizations I’m partnering with. . Important Resources for Following WCAG. Now that you’ve gotten familiar with WCAG, I want to share some resources that have helped me comply with these guidelines when making design decisions.

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How to effectively communicate impact to nonprofit stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

But nonprofit leaders do not always know how to communicate their organization's impact to retain donors and attract new ones. The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. Storytelling as a solution.

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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

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And when it comes to creating a nonprofit business plan for your organization, that’s a task that generally falls to the board—a situation that can create a big disconnect between what you need and what you actually get. Fundraising and Development: Plans for generating financial resources to support the nonprofit’s activities.

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Why Invest in Nonprofit Human Resource Infrastructure?

ASU Lodestar Center

How will investing in nonprofit Human Resource infrastructure promote stronger leadership, quality staff retention, and sustainable community support? Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. -Dan Dan Pallotta.

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Myth Busters: Why Donors Shouldn’t Rely on the Overhead Ratio

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Rottenness is not a very useful criteria for picking where to eat, but GuideStar President and CEO Jacob Harold said this scenario happens every time a person chooses to rely upon a nonprofit’s overhead ratio to make a donation. Is the organization financially stable? You also care about things like taste and nutrition,” Harold said.

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