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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. For our first project,?

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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

based nonprofits from Candid that serve the homeless population. Then we recorded key metrics from their IRS Form 990s from 2016-2018. An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. For each one, we recorded their mission statement. Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Passionate explaining of impact?

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Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health

Connection Cafe

While sizeable, complex impact investments like Kaiser Permanente’s $200 million to combat homelessness receive the most attention, most grantmaking programs are more modest, with hospitals investing about $500,000 to $2 million per year. A small number of coherent initiatives with a clear theory of change and metrics.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Look first at your organizational metrics. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. How do we move away from slacktivism? Remember the examples from before?

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies.

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