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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

And if you don’t have a budget , that’s an even bigger problem!). Overspending on fundraising is NOT the problem I see most often in small nonprofits, though. But if free is a MUST, that’s a problem. Focus on one signature event, 10 grant proposals, and 1,000 new donors each year. Sometimes that’s ok.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. . With voice, many solutions for issues like the “market price” problem can be human engineered, as that information is now only a phone call away to a trusted source in a bigger market.

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9 questions to help you align your mission, fundraising and marketing to attract donors more effectively

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You need to make sure that what you create actually solves a problem your potential donors want to solve! The important thing is to understand their problems as related to your expertise. Spend a little time searching Google, YouTube, and social media for the questions that your proposed digital resource could address.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

So I am intimately acquainted with the problem that Foundation Center programmers are trying to solve with their machine learning approach. It does seem as much a collaboration problem as a data problem to get so many stakeholders to share their data. It took us four months of non-stop proofreading and data entry!

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What are the best metrics to use to measure ROI and improve your blog's content?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics you can get a comment to post ratio. What's the value of that?

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Preparing for Planned Giving Conversations—24 Terms You Need to Know

Connection Cafe

In the financial world it means the ratio of money gained or lost on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. Splitting the interest creates a problem in determining the value of the portion given to charity (gift portion) and the value of the portion which was kept (retained interest).