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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

Network for Good

Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

Network for Good

Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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Guest Post on Care2 Frogloop: Designing Campaigns for Impact

Amy Sample Ward

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Start with Metrics. Those metrics and goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaign.

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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Allison suggests that we're looking at the wrong metric - we should be measuring success using awareness not dollars. Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Designing Campaigns for Impact

Care2

Whether it's political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Start with Metrics. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics.

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Better Data, Better Donors

Everyaction

That means during your monthly metrics meeting all you have to do is open your email, download the report, and you’re ready to go! Some more ways you can use grants management reports for your benefit include: Grouping by campaign to see the number of applied for and expected funds going into your individual campaigns.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Lagging indicators -.