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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One core belief has driven the Organizational Effectiveness program for nearly 30 years: Organizations are more effective at meeting their goals when they have thoughtful strategy, strong leadership, and sound management. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Email Still Rules: A Webinar Series from NTEN to Step Up Your Email Marketing

Amy Sample Ward

Do you have a person or persons in your organization who are dedicated to online marketing? 3/12/2009). Tactics for Finding More Online Donors, Members and Advocates : When Organic List Building Tactics Aren’t Enough (3/16/2009). Storytelling via Email (3/26/2009). Do you set up campaigns? blasting) via email.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact. There have to be other criteria for defining and evaluating innovation. People believe in the internet.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Using "Customer/Jobs" and "Classes" Utilities

Tech Soup

This is the third blog of my series on configuring QuickBooks for use in a nonprofit organization. The sample implementation questionnaire (mentioned above and in my second blog ) will assist you in making a list of your customers (funding sources) and the individual grants (jobs) awarded by those funding sources to your nonprofit.

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ROI: What are the best "I" words for nonprofits to think about Social Media and ROI?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

not the ROI of a marketing strategy, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Many social media strategists and measurement gurus have challenged using a straight financial calculation to determine whether or not an organization should spend money on social media. They are not saying don't use numbers.

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

Amy Sample Ward

The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? You're in luck!

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