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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. And also think about how you can fund those new programs because you may need some seed money before you can start. But you can’t self-fund your nonprofit. What need will you address?

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

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If you have a CRM with an analytical dashboard, like Little Green Light or Bloomerang , you are presented with this number daily. You can split the difference, adding a portion of the extra funds to your financial reserves and investing the remainder in growing your nonprofit or moving people or animals off the waiting list.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. After we had all the sticky notes on the board, we had generated a landscape analysis from the grantee’s point of view.

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

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While Tides had previously produced annual reports that included the usual suspects – descriptions of initiatives, programs and client portfolio, bullet-point statistics and highlights, and financials – we wanted to push our analysis further by looking at our work in greater contexts and through different lenses. Where did those grants go?

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Your Guide to a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan

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You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. Whether you use Little Green Light or Bloomerang , and whether it was $5 or $5,000, their name, giving history, and contact information get you started getting to know them. Otherwise, you can spend a lot of time being busy, but not being productive. What’s working?

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

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The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May. Witzel notes, we don't have the barrier of "paralysis by analysis.".

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

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This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. When I first saw the article, I thought it was the article from a year ago where they said basically the same thing.