ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

Studies show that donors ask less about where their money is spent and more about the impact their donation is making. The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2022

becomes increasingly diverse, the percentage of people of color in executive director/CEO roles has remained under 20 percent for the last 15 years,” according to research studies. Overhead ratio” refers to the amount of money a nonprofit spends on its mission vs. money spent on overhead costs. “As the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 16, 2021

If investing into nonprofit infrastructure will help advance organizations to that next level, then why do nonprofit leaders loathe the idea of putting any money into infrastructure? Donors need to be educated on the harsh reality of solely judging an organization’s efficiency through financial ratios. Relationship development.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 4, 2019

After all, what nonprofit leader wouldn’t want to walk into work one Monday morning to find a pile of money, an unexpected gift, on their doorstep? It has a new development department, led by director, Liz Dunn, who says that her biggest challenge is learning every day what constitutes the organization’s new normal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Magazines like Forbes , U.S.

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