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How to effectively communicate impact to nonprofit stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. Storytellers strategically place the donor or prospect into the story, allowing them to help solve a problem, making them a hero.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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How To Increase Profits Through Gender-Balanced Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The physical differences are associated with natural tendencies in thinking, communicating, and problem-solving that are all needed in business. Firms with a higher proportion of women on the board have higher valuations, better returns on equity, and higher payout ratios. Measure progress. Mentor your high-potential females.

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Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges

Forum One

This is only a problem if (1) community sponsors expect levels of active participation radically different from these ratios and (2) more passive forms of participation are disregarded or undervalued. Set realistic expectations, plan accordingly, and measure passive use as much as active use.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . He goes on to critique problems with the quality of Feedburner's functionality. If not, why? If yes, why?

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