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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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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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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. To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success , let’s take a look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. How is ROI calculated?

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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. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I agree, but is a ratio the best number? I think that writing a blog is an art more than a science and there is something unappealing to me about looking at numbers of posts and numbers of words to evaluate the quality of my blog posts and ultimate success of my blog. And there is no price that you can put on a ROI of happiness.

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