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How to Use a SWOT Analysis for Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

A SWOT analysis is a great tool to guide any team through this process. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.” – Claire Weekes What is a SWOT Analysis and Why Do One? A SWOT analysis helps to identify opportunities for growth and impact, and anticipate and mitigate potential threats.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

R Studio is loaded with databases of words, and after we entered the 200 mission statements into the program, it looked at each word in each mission statement and gave us a numeric representation of how positive, negative, or neutral the nonprofit mission statement sounds.?We Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve? For our second project,?

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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

In less technical terms, the software took into account the words we fed it and gave us a numeric representation of how positive, negative, or neutral the mission statement sounds. An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve?

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Testimony From Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Helps Establish Legal Precedent and Convictions for Forced Disappearance in Guatemala

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guzmán’s testimony in the García case was based on his analysis of this archive which was discovered in a military munitions storehouse near Guatemala City in 2005. Guzmán conducted a comparative analysis between 667 documents pertaining to García that were found in the Archive and estimates from the entire Archive.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. It replicable?

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Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know this sounds like extra work, but keeping a journal can help you remember exactly what worked really well or what you’d like to tweak or improve the next round. I was chatting with Dana Nelson from GiveMN , one of the longest running giving days who tell me she and her team are always “writing it down as they go.”

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June 8 is Equal Pay Day for nonprofit CEOs

Candid

Although it may sound like a holiday, it is not a day of celebration. We followed the same methods [i] used to calculate other Equal Pay Days, but focused specifically on nonprofit organizational leaders (CEOs and executive directors) and total reportable compensation [ii]. Today (March 24), is Equal Pay Day.