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Fundraising Metrics: Don’t Just Count the Dollars

ASU Lodestar Center

dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. These must be tracked and evaluated. In addition to these structures, there are also cultural mechanisms one can employ to make the performance evaluation system a success.

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I'm speaking at SXSW or rather reciting a poem!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These performances are then evaluated by judges and the audience. I've designed some fun ways to incorporate Twitter into the experience. Mashable Party Monday, March 16, 9:30pm-12:30am Six Lounge, 117 W 4th, Austin, TX 7870 There will also be an effort to help raise awareness of childhood hunger issue during SXSW, so stay tuned.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Their fifth wedding anniversary would be a fun news story. . Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. 5K will raise money for school’s outdoor classroom and track . If you still don’t get any response, re-evaluate your pitch. Is it newsy enough?

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature. These are fun and gradual ways to improve writing skills.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It combines expert judging with popular vote, online strategy with good old fashion off line organizing, links objectives to a theory of change, and incorporates a fun and engaging way for people to learn about and take action on a timely community problem. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge?

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. Now we just have to raise $800,000, so we can start doing our plan.” And you have to always keep your impact growing, scaling activities in balance with your capacity, because, you know, it’s no fun. .

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