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It’s Giving Season. Here’s how to donate wisely.

Candid

Do you want to give to a local, national, or international organization? Contrary to popular assumption, these indicators can give you a fuller picture of an organization’s performance than just focusing on what percentage of its budget is dedicated to overhead costs (also known as overhead ratio).

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

Are funds being generated and spent in alignment with internal and external expectations, restrictions and legal requirements? Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. Many ratios and other information can be derived from financial documents that are useful to interpretation.

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Going Viral: How One Organization Was Transformed by an Unexpected Windfall

ASU Lodestar Center

Think of all that you could do with those extra funds—give your hard-working staff a well-deserved raise, pay off your organization’s debt, replace your cobbled-together computer systems, serve 10 times the number of clients whom you served last month, even provide the employee training and education that you’ve deferred for the past decade.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Improving Fundraising Asks: 5 Tips for Boosting Donations

Achieve

with giving programs will match donations at a 1:1 ratio? The last thing that you want is for a supporter to want to donate to your organization and then be unable to find the place to send in their funds. . John Killoran is an inventor, entrepreneur, and the Chairman of Clover Leaf Solutions, a national lab services company.

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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. For example, Ms. Nonprofit Bookkeeping Test from Blue Avocado.

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10 Outstanding Nonprofit Sponsorship Request Letter Samples

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This [season or time period], we’re aiming to raise [amount] to fund [project]. The sponsor could include a reference to your cause on their corporate philanthropy page, or they could agree to match gifts to your organization at a higher ratio than gifts to other causes. Don’t leave that funding on the table!

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