Blue Avocado
MARCH 5, 2024
For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. In a successful nonprofit, the board’s primary responsibilities include exercising fiduciary duties and supervising the Executive Director. A common example that I have seen concerns the ratio of unrestricted to restricted funds.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 22, 2014
News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.
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Care2
JULY 16, 2012
This great workbook from Idealware and Darim Online provides insightful questions, exercises, and a sample policy template that community managers can use as a starting point in creating an organization’s official social media policy. Debra Askanase has a great review of the workbook that I’d recommend you check out as well.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 2, 2011
For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.
BoardAssist
APRIL 12, 2016
The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources. Nevertheless, consider this: If a nonprofit CEO is struggling with ways to streamline costs, or deliver more services with greater impact and funding, collaboration should be prime on the mind.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 16, 2008
POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. Would love some examples or perhaps this is the exercise I give to participants. It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2017
Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Your team can do a simple mindfulness exercise by starting a meeting with a deep breath and going around the table to share how you are feeling in the moment. Your teams needs to accept that you have to make choices. Take a trend-line view. Do you have too many back-to-back meetings?
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