BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A $1 million community group may have limited personnel and need four weeks to close the month, while a large university may only need a few days. But if that same organization had a $10 million surplus the previous year, a surplus of only $1 million may be cause for concern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In Philanthropy. Around Gender.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. If you can help donors understand why your cause is a worthy one, then you are far more likely to succeed. Would you consider making a donation of $100 to the university’s endowment fund?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

This is true whether you are working with a pre-school, an elementary school, a college or university, or anything in between. When parents see a school as simply a place to educate their own child, they may give during their student’s tenure there, but not after. Everyone likes to get involved with causes bigger than themselves.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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EveryAction

APRIL 25, 2016

While most companies match gifts at a 1:1 ratio, doubling the employee’s donation, some companies match contributions at up to a 4:1 ratio. Certain companies will donate to any eligible 501(c)(3) organization, whereas others have limitations and will only contribute to nonprofits that support certain causes such as: Arts and culture.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We want to get them excited about our work, we want to educate them, we want to cultivate them. Initially said, “I have no interest in this cause.” People want to know why they should be the person contributing to the cause. So you have to give to the cause that you’re soliciting for. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

Since positive health outcomes are seen from a higher ratio of social health dollars verses traditional health spending, community impact aligns with philanthropist interest in an innovative, higher ROI (Bradley et al., The crisis has shown how education, trust, and policy can impact community behavior. Donors want to see impact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for.

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