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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

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The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. Organizations also fear being penalized by some of the ratings services.

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Social Media Analytics: The Basics

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This doesn’t necessarily mean the person actually took the time to read it, but an impression confirms that it did, in fact, show up on their feed. Engagement rate is the ratio of total impressions versus total engagements. All it takes is a close look at a few main factors to evaluate your overall social media performance.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics.

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Digital Marketing Plan For Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide (2017)

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Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. Click Through Rate (CTR). Email Opt-In Rate.

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Nonprofit Transparency Best Practices: Building Donor & Public Trust

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We see those feel-good stories about amazing fundraisers on our feeds: “Viral Irish GoFundMe Raises Millions for the Navajo Nation In Act of Generosity That Bridges Historical Debt of Gratitude ”. We’ll walk through the benefits of charity ratings, then delve into how to present your IRS Form 990 (for U.S.-registered Charity Ratings.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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Why is multi-channel marketing important for nonprofit fundraising?

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Patton, Donorly Multi-channel Marketing Strategies with Branding and Google Ad Grants – by Carl Diesing, DNL Omnimedia Turn Your Social Media Feed into a Viable Fundraising Channel – by Ryan Thomas, Oneicity. Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate. At BDI, we also see total website conversion rates of 8 to 10%.

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