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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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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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Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The field is hungry to move beyond simplistic measures such as the overhead ratio. Between 2006 and 2012, he oversaw $30 million in grants that, together, aimed to build a 21st-century infrastructure for smart giving. Within 48 hours of first announcing Platinum we had more than 500 nonprofits sign up as Early Adopters.

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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

NTEN

Roger Dooley points to the golden mean, which is the width-to-height ratio of 1.618 that recurs in nature, the Parthenon and shells. How do you look attractive that fast? Brain scans show people’s brains light up in the emotional areas when they see the mean. It may be worth using the proportion online. They’re memorable as a result.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nostalgia is much more than mere reminiscing; it’s a warm, fuzzy emotion that we feel when we think about fond memories from our past. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. or “Love it!”

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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. You’ll also find the more you test subject lines, the more you’ll get a feel for what interests your recipients. Call-to-Action Link Testing. Follow-Up Approaches.

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33 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.” Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.