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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

Bloomerang

The importance of a cost-benefit analysis for your fundraising strategies. James Greenfield is the guru of fundraising cost-benefit analysis. Because the anticipated ROI at this point is modest, smart awareness-building strategies are broad brush and relatively inexpensive. raised ratio? Know your target. Local economics.

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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. How is ROI calculated?

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Social Change Behind the Firewall.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. The Web is changing! Think Nielsen Ratings ).

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Gen Y Blogger Profile: Qui Diaz - Evangelist for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" Her personal blog, EvangeList , focuses on social media, social change, and nonprofits. Challenges: Justifying the means through ROI. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking about writing the description for the WeAreMedia Module 6: Considering the ROI for this week. " I think this statement still holds true, although with more people thinking about ROI and Social Media, practice is evolving. RSS reading patterns are changing. Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 Technorati ???Authority???