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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. So, it was a natural place to turn to for data to use for this research.

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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

based nonprofits from Candid that serve the homeless population. Then we recorded key metrics from their IRS Form 990s from 2016-2018. Before I dive in, here’s a look at how we approached this research : My colleagues and I randomly chose 200 U.S.-based For each one, we recorded their mission statement.

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Research Friday: The Real Impact of Collective Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

So everyone understands the language, what it is what we’re intending to do, and it’s tied then to metrics, that it’s a shared metric system. And showing that it's moving the needle, the metric, forward. So, by focusing collectively around the chronically homeless we’ve made some wonderful strides.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. ” Rather than gimmicks, spotlight your mission.

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Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health

Connection Cafe

As they do so, more hospitals are deploying grantmaking programs that support nonprofit partners, tangibly demonstrate commitment to the community, and tackle entrenched problems facing vulnerable populations. Such programs predominantly include addressing homelessness and food insecurity, as well as improving nutrition and exercise.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Look first at your organizational metrics. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change. How do we move away from slacktivism?

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