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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Whether you’re a brand-new nonprofit looking to recruit your very first volunteers or are a seasoned pro, it’s important to first evaluate and assess your volunteer needs and to do so frequently. During this whole process, don’t forget to ask open-ended questions and help your volunteer feel heard! Now, discuss the reality.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. These are points that, when focused upon, have a large ratio of amount-of-effort to desired-change. Key is a participatory development process.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

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. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad.

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Digital Marketing Plan For Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide (2017)

Nonprofits Source

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. While these questions aren’t always easy to answer, you can chunk it down: What is one of your organization’s goals? Fortunately, the technology exists to help us answer some of these questions.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. So the question is how much of the increase is due to the fact that these hardworking go-getters would have increased their income on their own, and how much was directly due to the program?

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. I agree, but is a ratio the best number? For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words. which is very hard to so.

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