ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, an output metric for a literacy program might be the number of books read by program participants. For example, a quality metric for a literacy program might be the number and length of activities. . Output metrics assess the intermediate results of an intervention, action, or project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year! and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

By sending messages at the right time to the right people, you’ll see upticks in open and click-through rates because they are receiving relevant content that they care about. Marketing research and performance – you’ll be able to segment and target your marketing tactics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. I worked for a number of years in international development and it’s true when they say “Empower Women – Change the World.&#.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are three tools I created or co-authored that can help you match skills to roles: Nonprofit Data & Tech Skill-Building Checklist — a worksheet that provides an inventory of technology and data-related skills and a way to rate your skills or those of a team member or job candidate. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. The goal of Reading Eggs is to support each child by offering lessons tailored to each student that allow them to progress at their own rate. Is It Right for My Organization? How Does It Work?

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. Another note about the right photo: In an appeal, your success rate will be higher if the person in the photo is not smiling. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent. Personalized salutation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. How can you get an ROI in the digital literacy skills we are all developing?”. If you had a time machine and could go back to before coronavirus (COVID-19) impacted the world, how would you prepare?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

With an expansive and expanding ecosystem of nonprofit rating systems, nonprofits are often competing against one another to demonstrate their efficiency and effectiveness. Professionalism in financial literacy & intentionality. More than half want a list of specific projects supported by the nonprofit before they contribute.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Other examples of the PAS framework in the context of PowerPoetry.org could include addressing issues such as censorship, lack of artistic representation, and low literacy rates, and presenting solutions such as promoting free speech, supporting diverse voices, and providing literacy resources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Second, align your measurement efforts to your outcomes as much as possible; ideally, measure the outcomes directly, and when direct measurements aren’t possible due to practical reasons (e.g., time, cost), leverage the evidence-based social science research available to identify the strongest leading indicators and capture metrics on those.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

We’ve been stuck for a long time and the poverty rate hasn’t changed in 50 years. And if anybody’s looked at the poverty rate, being in poverty means you make very, very little money. Maybe you have a financial literacy program with super high impact rates, but nobody wants to show up to them.

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” In the for-profit sector, direct mail can have a response rate as high as 37%. That thank-you email should be personalized, address them by name, and reference the specific dollar amount given.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Every year, birth defect rates and the percentage of children with special needs entering institutional care in China has increased. Since 1993, GRuB has been using its farming programs to reduce high school drop-out rates b y teach low-income youth about proper nutrition and sustainability. million books per year.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Conversational messaging in-platform (directly through Messenger), has up to 10x higher open and engagement rates, 40x higher event participation rate, and 40x higher advocate response when compared to communications sent via email. Increase your internal team’s Facebook literacy as well as your supporters’.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Survey results suggest a seven-year increase, on average, in the rate at which companies are developing digital products and services. “Identify and then eliminate the obstacles standing in the way of the desired behavior.” — Kurt Lewin. Digital product acceleration is trending across businesses worldwide. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Among all developing countries, Vietnam has one of the lowest unemployment rates. percent obesity rate, which ranks them as 186th. This was happening at the same time as a rising rate of junior high and high school dropouts.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These factors also affect your recruitment rates, as a company that values its employees enough for them to stay is also one that others want to work for. If your own organization doesn’t keep up, your recruitment and retention rates will be impacted. How you engage with your employees is especially critical now. Don’t fret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The school system had one of the worst high school dropout rates in the nation and a high level of crime per capita. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. BUILD actively works to increase high school graduation rates for at-risk youth with a four-year entrepreneurial program. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." The most important listening literacy skills are. Qui Diaz, The Big Dig Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills 3. tags: listening socialmedia ). Keywords Are King.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Annual Reading, Literacy & Learning conference is a source of information for anyone affected by dyslexia and other learning based challenges. Please save the day for Nonprofit Day 2019. General / @npp_erie. 10/29/2019.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Twitter to squeeze the wine business for charity | Webware - CNET: "n an attempt to boost literacy rates around the world, Twitter has launched a wine label with San Francisco-based winery Crushpad.The label is dubbed Fledgling Wine.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, if you ran a literacy organization and you had a blog post about how one of your former beneficiaries just became the poet laureate for a nearby city, that would be an excellent candidate. The literacy nonprofit talked about above might name their recurring donors their “Bookworm Brigade.”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

There is perhaps no more telling data point than this: online donors 65-years and older have the highest retention rate. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Despite the good effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the unemployment rate for disabled American adults is 72% , about three times that of non-disabled people. People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the U.S. and certainly the largest one in the world, numbering one billion people. In the U.S.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

Say you’re writing an appeal that will support your summer literacy program: Imagine a character that’s similar to people who have donated to that cause in the past. Whether you’re looking for ways to improve your open rates or want pointers for creating eye-catching subject lines, you’ll find what you need in this report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. WFP USA paired this memorable introduction to Rani with a compelling fact that emphasizes the importance of empowering girls like her: School meals increase girls’ school enrollment rates by 12%.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A campaign for a children’s literacy program might make their campaign page more user-friendly by including: A Clear Donation Section: Prominently placed near the top, this section highlights the action you want your supporters to take. Putting Design Elements Into Practice Let’s consider an example.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. It was not unusual for a person to pull out a document showing national dropout rates for their country in the middle of a cocktail party. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.

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