ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 16, 2021

The unrealistic expectations that have been created through the nonprofit starvation cycle by donors only continues to rise as nonprofit efficiency is judged on financial ratios. Donors need to be educated on the harsh reality of solely judging an organization’s efficiency through financial ratios.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. At the very least, they can introduce your nonprofit’s fundraising team to their company’s leadership to start the conversation. Take Coca-Cola for example.

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Trend Examples Giving Ratio 52

Media Cause

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Using color combinations with a contrast ratio of less than 4.5:1 Call to Actions To drive conversions, you need Call to Action (CTA) buttons on your site in order to prompt your audience to take action. Designing for accessibility can make your content easier for all users to engage with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To maximize the full potential of this period, organizations must explore innovative strategies to drive engagement, increase conversions, and amplify their overall impact. The end-of-year giving season is fast approaching, and for nonprofits and educational institutions, this marks a crucial time for fundraising.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 17, 2021

But it was not a one-to-one conversion. To test the hypothesis that virtual events produced a better cost-to-revenue ratio, we asked fundraisers in the State of Nonprofit Fundraising report how their event costs changed between their live events and virtual events, in relationship to their fundraising goals.

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Virtual Nonprofit Ratio Aggregator 91

Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

This should include: Minimum and maximum donation amounts Matching gift ratios Types of qualifying employees Types of qualifying nonprofits Submission deadlines And more! Encourage Two-Way Communication Much of nonprofit email marketing would be considered a one-sided conversation.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Conversely, if a particular communication style or event invitation is exciting a donor, the AI system learns and replicates this approach in future interactions. When these signs occur, AI can immediately update a donor’s plan to highlight this information and prioritize when to contact the donor next.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, net zero long term goals, CEO-to-employee pay ratios, employee injury statistics, and incremental improvement in diversity hiring. Unfortunately, over time it became clear that much of the conversation around being “purpose-driven” was just that; mere conversation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Interactivity significantly increases shares and conversions. A good ratio is three or four non-ask (cultivation) emails for each one with an ask (solicitation). When sending emails, personalize them as much as possible to secure higher open and conversion rates. Social media should be social.

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Strategy Online Fundraising Plugin 143

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. But if they congregate online, on a community news site or blog network, join them in conversation there. Who is using the platform?

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Social Network Network Strategy Social 165

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I do share URLs to my posts, but try to link to a conversation. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." Twitter As A Conversation Tool. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. My ratio is 2.4,

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

If your conversation rate is low or bounce rate is high, it’s a good indicator that your site isn’t engaging your visitors. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. This makes them more likely and more comfortable engaging with your site and providing personal information within your site forms. Recent Posts.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

As far as the partnership conversation referenced above, this is a terrific way to help your volunteers understand exactly what it means to be in the volunteer role they’ve agreed to fill. What matters is that you should be prepared to have difficult conversations when needed. Remember the partnership conversation?

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Having said that, there are two ratios that I believe are very important for nonprofit leaders to track – and both have to do with liquidity. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 2, 2018

You know, “the false conception that financial ratios are a proxy for overall nonprofit performance.” Cause Camp 2018 saw us having that difficult conversation about diversity in the workplace. Most of all: have those conversations about representation and diversity. Overhead myth. Yes, we went there.

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Causes Philadelphia Ratio Student 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Content Arts Guidelines News 119

NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. That was the easy part of the conversation. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. That was the easy part of the conversation. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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Roles Question Ratio API 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1). She ends invoking the PHP gods. Why is it impressive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing Twitter, too). There were some early tools to analyze these ratios, including Twitter Ratio which also describes some Twitter user patterns based on this ratio which are more humorous than anything else.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The most common donation ratio falls at a 1:1 match, meaning the company will contribute a corporate gift in the same amount as the employee’s initial gift (e.g., —which are tens of thousands of businesses across all corporate sectors?—essentially a $100 corporate donation corresponding to a $100 individual donation).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. Nonprofits can change the "overhead" conversation.

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San Francisco Ratio Nonprofit Interview 36

Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2023

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. Businesses tend to match their employees’ donations at a 1:1 ratio, though some match as high as 4:1.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

If you were there , I would love to hear your thoughts as well; and if you weren’t , well, read David’s post about how it all works and join the conversation! If we limit the funding conversations to the end, I think groups will have more time to talk about their ideas and will worry less about understanding a fictional Borough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

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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Measure Metrics Nonprofit Ratio 50

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff. What do you think?

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Most organizations either stay below that benchmark or work up to that size of an operation, allowing time to develop the right processes to accurately categorize expenses and maintain the right overhead expense ratio to get a three- or four-star rating. Then, steer the conversation back to your programs.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Conversion Rates. Average Win Rate is the ratio of closed won deals over the total number of won and lost deals. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Training & Development (Coaching and Mentoring). Optimization and Implementation of Sales Process. Sales Activities. Lead Generation. Automation. Data Analytics.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Conversions? Is 10K enough, too little, too many? Similarly, how many retweets? Hashtag mentions? Video views? Clicks on embedded links?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. I happened to see a wonderful remix of this from Buzz Canuck called " The 27 Types of Twitter Conversations." Most importantly is understanding what your engagement index is. He suggests setting goals and identifying audience before selecting the metrics.

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Measure Relationship Metrics ROI 67

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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. WeAreMedia Project ([link] has a listening toolbox!

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy. Go have a direct conversation, make a request, or make the conscious choice that you won’t let it steal your energy or productivity. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Take a trend-line view.

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