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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

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Unless you measure your nonprofit’s performance, it’s impossible to know where you are succeeding and where you need to focus future efforts. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

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As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing. As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. GuideStar . Candid’s GuideStar platform includes over 2.7 million nonprofits.

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Beyond Bronze, Silver, and Gold—Grow Success With Purpose

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Both are steeped in the world of associations and are avid students of strategy, business, and culture beyond this industry. Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. We can support you in that. Our value is in promoting accountability.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

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Little has been known about how philanthropy has—or hasn’t—supported them, until now. Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. In the meantime, here are five key findings you should know about. In fact, large U.S.

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Announcing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation ‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. I could not have written this book alone, especially as a reformed measurement phobic.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

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To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.” The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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Clean data allows you to reach the right audience at the right time with a higher probability of getting their attention and sealing the deal, whether that is a donation, a new student enrollment, or simply getting current parents at your school to sign a permission form. Data Can Sustain and Support. Data gives us context.

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