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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

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. “At the extremes the overhead ratio can offer insight: it can be a valid data point for rooting out fraud and poor financial management," the letter stated.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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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. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Where do you look for standard metrics? There was much talk early on about the need for standard metrics for measuring social media and struggle to measure social media effectiveness.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos. WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox.

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3 Key Pieces in an Engaging Email Campaign

Connection Cafe

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. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey. Same thing with your landing pages.

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5-Part Social Media Process

Amy Sample Ward

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success.