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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. . How Sad is Your Mission Statement?

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Communications and framing.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. What do you measure every day, week, month, year?

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6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

Get Fully Funded

It’s important to keep your donor database clean. This is how you will measure success. Where does it draw your eye? If you’re not much of a designer, hire someone to help with this part. Make sure your mailing list is clean. When a letter is returned, update the donor’s record.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

Our focus on new media in the digital period also meant that we started to forget about the technology tools we already had in our organization: the hardware, software, databases, servers. There is no reason we should, as an entire sector, have to change the way we operate in order to use a database. Holistic Tactics.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. There’s more in there.

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[VIDEO] Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro-tips from the Field

Bloomerang

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. How will you measure quality and outcomes? Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. So check that out. .

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