sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. Data analysis helps you eliminate prospects who may not be a good fit earlier in the process.

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Analysis Data Donor Help 90

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. Your charity’s overhead ratio is not necessarily an indicator of its success, but rather a way to offer insight about how funds are broken down. Here’s an example of a circle graph that a Texas Humane Society put on their website.

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Money Donor Chart Ratio 64

sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. Data analysis helps you eliminate prospects who may not be a good fit earlier in the process.

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Analysis Gift Data Tips 74

BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Having said that, there are two ratios that I believe are very important for nonprofit leaders to track – and both have to do with liquidity. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio.

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Measure Practice Ratio Conservancy 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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Benchmark Social Media Measure Results 96

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. Anatomy of the nonprofit starvation cycle: An analysis of falling overhead ratios in the nonprofit sector. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. & Searing, E.

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Resource Ratio San Francisco Retention 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, My ratio is 2.4, This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. so I'm in the low end of conversationalist.

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Average Win Rate is the ratio of closed won deals over the total number of won and lost deals. Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 146

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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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls "nodes" is core of social network analysis. There was considerable discussion about the following to friends ratio (the number of people whose tweets you read compared to the number of people who read your tweets) and whether you should follow everyone who follows you.

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Ratio Twitter People Social Network 57

BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

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. This will aid in identifying any financial weakness, which depending on the severity, may force you to discard a candidate from the list.

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New York Collaboration Nonprofit Analysis 40

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Did you maintain a 3:1 ratio , providing donors with three warm touches between Asks? Without a thorough analysis, you’re just making educated guesses about what’s working and what’s not. Stewardship: Run a report looking at repeat donors. How many donors who donated during this period last year gave again this year? Handwritten notes?

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Evaluation Fundraising Raise Grant 72

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. ROI is a cost/benefit analysis methodology that measures how much money is made or saved for a given investment and is calculated as. Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year.

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Measure ROI Organization Ratio 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks. These experiments prompt questions, identify gaps in the data, and promote new forms of collection, dissemination, and analysis. Opening up data is just the first (big) step to make it usable and useful.

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Open Data Artist Museum 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. The exception is when there are many comments that are generic such as “Nice!” or “Love it!”

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

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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San Francisco Ratio Nonprofit Interview 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. I said, somewhat jokingly, that you shouldn't be spending more time doing the ROI analysis than the actual project. The final report or analysis can be a memo or simple report, doesn't need to be elaborate.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. See if there are published tangible payoffs from others and collect these "data nuggets" because they add credibility to your analysis. To quantify intangibles look and listen.

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ROI Measure Ratio Benefit 74

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The role of an analytical analysis is to help you identify and strategize the right individuals and target audience for specific types of gifts , as well as how much to ask for and who to prioritize. Enhancing Your Major Gift Strategy with Analytics. When embarking on one, be sure to keep your goals and objectives first and foremost.

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Gift Strategy Benchmark Arts 35

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. . But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. Information is data that requires analysis. And, through analysis, your organization can generate insight and inform strategic budget decisions. Remember: information is NOT insight. ​ 3.

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Create Ratio Analysis Review 158

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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Analytics Gift Strategy Fundraising 20

Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

The flow creates continuous improvement and continuous analysis. Insights result from analysis and discussion. Stewardship (Yes, Again) It’s time to close this loop of continuous improvement and analysis. It’s a cycle. It’s a system. Data tells you what happened.

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Ratio Analysis Data Platform 78

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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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed. " What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 102

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. Analysis of words in posts.

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Metrics ROI Measure Content 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The scores are 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. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. It can also influence traffic.

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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What is your post to comment ratio? The Web is changing! The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation. Demographics How many people visit the site? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. How many people comment on posts? What do they click on? How long do they stay?

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis. Technorati ???Authority???

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Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

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. It's not a nonprofit example, but it serves as an interesting case study for nonprofits.

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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! A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning. Most services offer a ???tag

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 8, 2017

One key to making informed, strategic decisions is financial ratio analysis. It’s the same type of analysis that bankers perform when you apply for a loan and that Charity Navigator uses to determine part of your score. Current ratio. The more your current ratio exceeds one, the stronger your organization.

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Ratio Tools Nonprofit Fund 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I agree, but is a ratio the best number? The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis. For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words. Kaushik acknowledges that this metric only measures quantity, not quality. He does suggest that comments per post is also another metric of quality.

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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. The analysis of our fundraising programs’ performance helped set the foundation for embracing big data and creating the cultural shift needed at Project HOPE. The analysis moved beyond short-term metrics such as annual net revenue and took a macro view of our program.

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