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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

Neon CRM

Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Keeping track of the right nonprofit KPIs and metrics for program evaluation and impact measurement, fundraising and development, and financial management will give them the data they need to make the right decisions.

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Myth Busters: Why Donors Shouldn’t Rely on the Overhead Ratio

NonProfit Hub

Rottenness is not a very useful criteria for picking where to eat, but GuideStar President and CEO Jacob Harold said this scenario happens every time a person chooses to rely upon a nonprofit’s overhead ratio to make a donation. The post Myth Busters: Why Donors Shouldn’t Rely on the Overhead Ratio appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

When I’m evaluating a charity for a client who is looking to make a significant donation to a nonprofit, I measure 4 key things: 1. “At the extremes the overhead ratio can offer insight: it can be a valid data point for rooting out fraud and poor financial management," the letter stated.

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

Wild Apricot

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Common Sales Operations Metrics & KPIs. Preferred metrics vary across teams and organizations. Identification and implementation of Key Performance Metrics (KPI).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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What Is a Good Fundraising Efficiency Ratio?

Neon CRM

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it.

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.