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How much do you spend on overhead?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most in the nonprofit sector have heard the question, “How much of my donation will go toward programs?” This may be a triggering question, but with good reason. There are many implications that this question brings, but when it is asked by major funders it causes a ripple effect within the nonprofit sector.

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Nonprofit Strategic Communication: Internal Branding and Messaging

Bloomerang

A mission statement should answer several questions: What do you do? Examples could be: Authenticity, Passion, Quality, Collaboration, Care, Innovation, Compassion, Leadership, etc. and Indianapolis-based nonprofit that fosters community programs in Indiana for the terminally ill, seniors, families and the home-bound.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: $250000 Collaboration Prize Finalists.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Thursday, February 17, 2011 $250,000 Collaboration Prize Finalists Announced posted by Jill Watts , Director of Capacity Building Initiatives ASU Lodestar Center Today the Lodestar Foundation announced the eight Finalists for the 2011 Collaboration Prize. Kellogg Foundation. However, we still have much to learn.

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are some of the questions that I set out to answer in my new book Data Driven Nonprofits. Culture of Sharing: There is a willingness to share data and collaborate to achieve better results and a disdain for creating or maintaining data silos. Why do some get overwhelmed in the deluge of data flowing from their systems?

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Turning Nonprofit Data into Decisions

Qgiv

To be strategic with your data means to identify which questions you want to try to answer. When you can answer those questions with the pertinent data, it creates multiple opportunities. Let’s take a deeper look at how data can lead you to the answers to these questions. Who is ready to give? What tools should we invest in?

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Research Friday: Senior Arizona volunteers -- how do they stack up against the rest of the nation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Complex questions, no doubt. A few years ago, the ASU Lodestar Center, working in collaboration within the AIM Alliance (nonprofit centers in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan), investigated giving and volunteering behaviors specifically within those three states. But how do we target our recruiting efforts?

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BIGGER! BETTER! FASTER! CHEAPER!

ASU Lodestar Center

In guiding our ASU Lodestar Center, I reflect on this type of marketing because of the inquiries we receive each week for research-based answers to every sort of question imaginable. Like the Shell Answer Man, we respond to dozens of inquiries each month on wide-ranging questions.

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