BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

So now, let’s go a little deeper into the question, what are the most important measures that leadership should look at to determine financial health? A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It is no question that the nonprofit sector lacks the internal infrastructure that the government and for-profit sectors have built. Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" My ratio is 2.4,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The real question for you to answer which images drive better engagement. That question can form the basis of many Facebook experiments. Answering a question posted.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They raise interesting questions about the Tate''s collection and the imperfections of collections data. Florian''s blog post centers on the question of why there are so many pieces by William Turner in the Tate''s collection. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

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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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

Questions to answer in an assessment include: What purpose does your nonprofit serve? Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization). In addition, this analysis may be useful for partner meetings down the road in which major concerns may be voiced. Objectivity is key. Why is your organization unique?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . What reflective questions do you ask while looking at your data?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

When embarking on a comprehensive analysis of your database, be sure to keep your goals and objectives first and foremost. Fundraisers should also analyze how much idealized potential exists for a proposed campaign by calculating the low, middle, and high end of capacity ranges, thus weighting “hit rates” or yield ratios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. How are they different from taxonomies? I wonder what we can learn from them?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

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. of a small, but very productive non profit, the ratios always look bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. I've been advocating this approach for a long time and offer you a set of data points and questions. The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! " Question: Why does a Star Fish Have Five Rays? What is your post to comment ratio? Answers Business Questions Related To Goals: (examples) Here's a simple framework for thinking through these.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. If you're blogging, who is listening? And how has the audience grown overtime?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

The question. My agency, Livingston Communications, is currently helping Network Solutions with reputation management across blogs, Twitter, and forums to significantly decrease the company's 58 percent negative commentary ratio (as of June 30) by more than 20 points. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Introduction. tag as private???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I agree, but is a ratio the best number? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis. which is very hard to so.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 8, 2017

This type of validation is exciting, but it raises questions about whether your organization can afford to expand. One key to making informed, strategic decisions is financial ratio analysis. Current ratio. The more your current ratio exceeds one, the stronger your organization. Quick ratio.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

And we all have likely asked these same questions: How much do I really know about my donor’s relationship with my charity? Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. The analysis moved beyond short-term metrics such as annual net revenue and took a macro view of our program. What questions do I want to ask?

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