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How do grantmaker CEO salaries compare with other staff? 

Candid

One of the more helpful ways to explore top executive pay is to examine the ratio of their compensation compared to that of the “median worker” (i.e., For example, in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism , John Bogle estimated a nationwide ratio to be approximately 280:1 in 2004 (up from 42:1 in 1980). The median ratio was 2.7:1

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

They stated that donors should not measure a charity’s performance based on overhead expenses. This is a topic that Amy Sample Ward and I also discuss in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere in the chapter on Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector. How effective is that organization in creating real world social change?

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

what things need to be measured. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), obama reach vs local reach.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Identify what measures of success can be used. You know who and what, and you identified where you want to go, but before you dive in you also need to establish how you can measure and monitor activity from day 1 onward. Explain what success looks like to you and ask how they would go about getting there!

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5-Part Social Media Process

Amy Sample Ward

Identify what measures of success can be used. You know who and what, and you identified where you want to go, but before you dive in you also need to establish how you can measure and monitor activity from day 1 onward. Explain what success looks like to you and ask how they would go about getting there! Evaluation.

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3 Key Pieces in an Engaging Email Campaign

Connection Cafe

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Unless you’re getting 1,000+ click-throughs to a landing page, the sample size is likely too small. If your list is under 5,000, increase the ratios to 20 percent/20 percent/60 percent. Building in targeting capabilities.

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