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Research Friday: Current Status of Arizona's Philanthropic Resources

ASU Lodestar Center

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) released a 2010 Arizona Giving Report earlier this year. Our analysis of 2008 IRS data indicates that individual Arizona taxpayers donated an estimated $3.87

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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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To Scale or Not to Scale: What Should Nonprofits Consider Before Deciding to Expand a Program for Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

“Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Ask the following questions: Why should the program scale up? Who is involved? How should the program expand?

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The Big 3: SEO, Email and Social

NetWits

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. A few more resources to that should keep you moving in the right direction: Mastering “The Google”. At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010.

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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

NTEN

In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.” And so we are very excited to release, today, a free resource to help nonprofits bridge this gap: > Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook. All of this takes investment of time and resources as well as vision.

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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