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Finding a Nonprofit Partner: Who is the Right One?

BoardAssist

Questions to answer in an assessment include: What purpose does your nonprofit serve? Evaluate each nonprofit on the list and determine the best candidates. Further evaluation can be conducted on each partner after step 5) and once both sides have agreed to meet for the first time. Objectivity is key.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. Coffman stated in their 2004 GuideStar article : “There’s no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. As Chuck McLean and Suzanne E.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner.

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Major Gifts: Defining and Enhancing Your Strategy

Connection Cafe

Asking questions like “How large is a major gift at your organization?” The 2017 Major Gifts Fundraising Benchmark Study asked the question of its respondents and found that 26% of organizations say that donations between $1,000 – $2,499 are considered a major gift at their organization.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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