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4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit

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With different levels and types of funding, different board and staff structures and capacities, many nonprofits are less inclined to be transparent with their financials and program metrics. Here are the metrics: Program ratio = program expenses / total expenses. But not all nonprofits are created equal.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play – guest post by Meghan Ventura. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. You can register here. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems.

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How can nonprofits acquire skilled talent to better achieve their mission?

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Benefits like these can be the difference in recruiting and retention efforts, despite potential short falls elsewhere in the organization. If an organization is willing to invest in a positive and extensive support structure, it is likely leadership will follow. Human resource investment. Recruiting strategy.

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Sales Operations Demystified: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How To Do It Right

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The composition, hierarchy, and primary role of sales ops may differ across industries and even across similar businesses of diverse sizes, but many of today’s sales ops leaders perform a standard core set of functions. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Here’s everything we’ll cover in this guide.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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Staff feel like they are supposed to be able to anticipate the founder’s thoughts, adapt to different working styles, and mimic the founder’s professional instincts. In every organization, the fiscal structure changes as it grows, in ways that founders often fail to perceive. For this reason, new nonprofits often grind through workers.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

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Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. What were structures in places at the time? . And even though minimalist design looks clean and spacious, it does not give space to different kinds of people to live and thrive.

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Kick-Start Your Major Gifts Program in 5 Easy Steps

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According to a report by the Charity Science Foundation, statistical trends have suggested that for many organizations, the ratio may be closer to 90/10. Giving thresholds markedly defining major gifts prevents later issues, such as divisions between different fundraising programs.

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