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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. Do the organizations test and experiment in order to meet their mission? It takes testing, experimenting, and iterating to see what works and what clearly doesn’t work.

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Before Publishing Your Annual Appeal, Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

Bloomerang

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin. how you would talk).

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5 Quick and Easy Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible

Allegiance Group

The higher the contrast ratio of text color to background color, the easier it will be to read. White and black are the two most contrasting colors you can use together, which explains why so many websites use simple black text on a clean white background.

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

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. 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. Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Nonprofit Bookkeeping Test from Blue Avocado.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. test and teweak. new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. use monitoring tools. know your keywords.

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Data in the Museum: Experimenting on People or Improving Their Experience?

Museum 2.0

In a world of iteration, prototyping, and A/B testing , do we need a new ethical litmus test for social experimentation? Facebook decides what content you see, what ads you see, and your personal ratio of puppies to snow warnings. evaluation informatics personalization research Unusual Projects and Influences web2.0'

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