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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Perceptions of spending levels – from donors, the board, or other stakeholders – can influence campaign and fundraising management. Understanding the importance of accurate reporting of staff time and all related fundraising expenditures will reap benefits in terms of precise calculations of financial ratios related to fundraising.

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How do grantmaker CEO salaries compare with other staff? 

Candid

One of the more helpful ways to explore top executive pay is to examine the ratio of their compensation compared to that of the “median worker” (i.e., For example, in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism , John Bogle estimated a nationwide ratio to be approximately 280:1 in 2004 (up from 42:1 in 1980). The median ratio was 2.7:1

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Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Benchmarking can lead to helpful conversations and learning—even when nonprofits use the same metric in different ways. The field is hungry to move beyond simplistic measures such as the overhead ratio. We have gathered 700 suggested metrics for our Common Results Catalog —but nonprofits can always add their own metrics, too.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

Charity Navigator wields a lot of influence in the nonprofit sector with its star ratings that take into account how much an organization spends on overhead. What About Ratings on Sites Like Charity Navigator? Fear of getting a bad rating on sites like Charity Navigator keeps many nonprofit leaders from spending money on fundraising.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

industry benchmarks. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Social Media Metrics: Distributed Influence. One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides.

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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) DZ: What do you feel youre getting out of it?