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

NTEN

Here is a Year-Over-Year comparison of our survey responses to technology staffing questions for the last three years: The key things we notice here are: The significant diffence between tech staffing levels reported in 2010 as compared to 2011 and 2012. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So here are four principles we used in designing GuideStar Platinum : Nonprofits should choose metrics that make sense for them. We have gathered 700 suggested metrics for our Common Results Catalog —but nonprofits can always add their own metrics, too. It is valuable to identify cases where nonprofits use common metrics.

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization. In addition to financial measures, charities will now be rated on the results of their work.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The PTAT metric includes all the following activities that happen on your page over a one-week rolling period: Liking a page.

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3 Key Pieces in an Engaging Email Campaign

Connection Cafe

In case you didn’t see, nonprofit click-through rates declined 16% in 2012.**. If your list is under 5,000, increase the ratios to 20 percent/20 percent/60 percent. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey. Call-to-Action Link Testing. Follow-Up Approaches.

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