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How much do you spend on overhead?

ASU Lodestar Center

They often try to compensate for under-funding of programs and systems by having too few staff or paying staff poorly. Instead of focusing on income and expense ratios, donors should ask about the scale of the organization’s goal, how they are measuring their goal progress, and what it would take to reach that goal. Nonprofits.

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AlumnIQ and Double the Donation Launch Advanced Matching Gift Integration

Double the Donation

This partnership will allow universities using AlumnIQ to access 360MatchPro, the industry leading matching gift solution. Then, universities can begin identifying match-eligible donors during the donation process, taking the guesswork out of matching gift campaigns. says Adam Weinger, President at Double the Donation.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function.

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Going Viral: How One Organization Was Transformed by an Unexpected Windfall

ASU Lodestar Center

Think of all that you could do with those extra funds—give your hard-working staff a well-deserved raise, pay off your organization’s debt, replace your cobbled-together computer systems, serve 10 times the number of clients whom you served last month, even provide the employee training and education that you’ve deferred for the past decade.

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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

To illustrate our point, take a look at two possible phonathon script introductions: Phonathon Script Introduction #1: “I’m calling on behalf of University X to raise money for our annual phonathon campaign. Would you consider making a donation of $100 to the university’s endowment fund?”. Match ratios. Forms and guidelines.

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

NTEN

Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester, and one of the premiere scholars in the ICT4D space, describes this shift aptly as a transition from ICT4D 1.0 In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate. Achieving limited scale, chasing sustainability .

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. Another part was that many nonprofits didnt have systems in place to track and allocate expenses accurately.

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