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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

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. from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. What is needed to achieve it?

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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. This was an epiphany for Ogilvy.

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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. 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? Just like the larger principle supporting movement building, we need to focus on action.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting?