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A Guide to Email Accessibility Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Key criteria for nonprofits to consider when designing emails for accessibility include: Ensure that your brand colors pass ADA contrast ratio guidelines of 4.5:1 Understanding what WCAG criteria is new and what remains relevant is important for growing your supporter base and maximizing your impact. Spread the word!

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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your board may well be aware of metrics surrounding the cost to raise a dollar and be keen to understand what that number is for your nonprofit. no Development director) or a lack of experienced business staff can limit an organization’s efficiency and drive up the cost to raise a dollar metric. However, gaps in management (i.e.,

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What Are Key Event Metrics and Why Do They Matter?

Greater Giving

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measures of how much money your fundraising events are raising, how your audience is growing, and which parts of your event are the most successful. One key piece of information about any fundraising event is how much money was put in, and how much money it raised in return. Cost-to-Revenue Ratio.

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4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit

sgEngage

Impact of Transparency in Nonprofits Studies show that organizations that provided better and more information to stakeholders raised substantially more money in subsequent years than organizations that didn’t share information with stakeholders. Here are the metrics: Program ratio = program expenses / total expenses.

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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

Bloomerang

Let’s look at the cost to raise a dollar for a range of fundraising strategies. In the best of all possible worlds, it cost 50 cents to raise a dollar from an event. Awareness raising” meets folks at the very beginning of the development/marketing pipeline. Spending more to raise substantially more makes sense.

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The overhead myth: crash course to fundraising transparency

Candid

To define the overhead myth, we first need to define the term “overhead ratio.” . Overhead ratio essentially refers to the amount of a nonprofit’s budget that’s dedicated to overhead costs (i.e. keeping the lights on”), and invest in fundraising innovations that can result in raising more funding toward the mission.

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How To Build Resilient And Thriving Teams

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Actively disengaged workers will change jobs for almost any raise, while the majority of engaged workers would require more than a 20% raise to leave their current company. Peers have a major influence because they can measure and compare their struggles and successes.

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