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Current Online Activities in Asia-Pacific Nonprofits

NetWits

43% rated their website as very effective in meeting their strategic internet goals. 64% of organisations actively raise funds online. A ratio of 4:1 is a good benchmark: ensure that for every 4 emails you send out, you only have one that directly solicits funds. 69% use email to drive donations.

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What Is a Good Fundraising Efficiency Ratio?

Neon CRM

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Why Is Understanding My Fundraising Efficiency Ratio Important? Why should you track it?

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

If you are just starting out, you may have to build up to that goal. But your goal should be to spend appropriately on fundraising so you can bring in the money you need to fully fund your programs. Management and general expenses include activities that don’t map to fundraising or a specific program. Expenses related to events.

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Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Benchmarking can lead to helpful conversations and learning—even when nonprofits use the same metric in different ways. Right now our primary goal is to accurately describe the diversity of programmatic measures across the nonprofit sector. The field is hungry to move beyond simplistic measures such as the overhead ratio.

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A Lesson on Budgeting from the Blackbaud Management Team

Connection Cafe

With proper planning and preparation, a budget should be a reflection of the strategic, long-term plans for your organization, and should serve as an annual framework against which your organization can measure financial success and directional movement towards your goals. What are the steps to creating a budget? Why does this work?

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

industry benchmarks. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.),

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The Ultimate Online Fundraising: Guide + 10 Top Ideas

Bloomerang

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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