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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. Programmatic statistics related to mission impact. As with many multiple-choice tests, there is only one answer here that makes sense: programmatic statistics related to mission impact. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups.

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Major Gifts: Defining and Enhancing Your Strategy

Connection Cafe

Defining a major gift at your organization should be statistical and not subjective. Even with a 5:1 identification-to-gift success ratio (or 200 gifts) annual revenue from this major gift prospect pool could reasonably be set at $5,000,000! Let’s look at another example of how this works. And if they do, they do it wrong.

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Big Email Change Is Coming: Is Your Nonprofit Ready?

Bloomerang

How do we use statistics about open rates right now? A high open rate to click-thru rate (CTR) ratio helps you determine the efficacy of your content. You can send the same email but use two different subject lines to measure which one received a higher open rate. Open rates are also crucial for evaluating your send times.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He notes: "The bottom line on statistics -- we're seeing pretty routinely that. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). Kaushik acknowledges that this metric only measures quantity, not quality. I agree, but is a ratio the best number? Technorati ???Authority???

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How To Convince Leadership Content Marketing For Nonprofits Matters

Nonprofits Source

How to measure data to influence your marketing decisions i. There are two ways to convince leadership of long-term investments: Sway leadership with statistics and case studies. We’ve already discussed data-backed statistics are not enough. The efficiency ratio , also known as the revenue to cost ratio.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

He inspired audible gasps when he quoted a shocking statistic from the Bridgespan Group—only 6% of nonprofits use their data to drive improvements in their work. He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. Also, Strive Partnership measured the partners!

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Why is multi-channel marketing important for nonprofit fundraising?

Qgiv

Here are some interesting statistics to know as you think about growing your multi-channel marketing: The average American spends over 2.5 Monitor the ad performance to gain benchmarks against which to measure future performance. This is a good benchmark against which to measure the performance of your donation page.

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