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4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit

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Performance of the organization: If the organization has strong growth and positive financial metrics , they will be more likely to share this information. Contributions increase when total assets, program ratio, and operating margin increase, which is why it’s important to understand these metrics for your own organization.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.

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How to Measure Community Success

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Association leaders charged with building and managing online communities are faced with a lot of difficult decisions, from determining the right structure to creating a solid content strategy. It's about translating your metrics into stories that resonate with key stakeholders, from the leadership team to the board of directors.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

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You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial.

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

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It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. A good place to start is to think about the metrics that are most important to each campaign. A good place to start is to think about the metrics that are most important to each campaign.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. This usually means identifying key metrics that you have been using—or want to be using—to measure your organization’s success.

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Fundraising Metrics: Don’t Just Count the Dollars

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dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI! Of course, a metrics tracking system is only as good as the incentives that drive employees to use it.

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