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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

NTEN

As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. The 2011 and 2012 average staffing levels by organization size are very similar across all organization sizes, while the staffing levels in 2010 seem significantly lower.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

sgEngage

Once consumed, the data can be used to build statistical analyses , make comparisons, and draw conclusions, all without ever needing to speak with anyone from the foundation. In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland. and Marion L.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Ninety Percent of Consumers want Companies to Support Causes

Care2

While nonprofit campaigners like to debate the merits of cause related marketing, according to the 2010 Cone Cause Evolution Study , American consumers are huge supporters of cause marketing campaigns. Check out the comparison chart below. In fact, these types of campaigns even inspire a new group of supporters.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Speaking of Kintera … Kintera: try to catch up – Of course, the big 800 pound gorilla has become Salesforce – and their platform is becoming what people are measuring against. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce.

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Research Friday: The Trouble with Pay Raises

ASU Lodestar Center

Some of it happens through the natural human process of comparison. It’s hard enough to measure a whole organization’s progress towards its mission, let alone assign individual credit for that progress. By Daniel Pink, Canongate Books, 2010. [3] People are more concerned with relative, rather than absolute, pay. Get another!

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And the mission of the organization matters too. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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