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How to effectively communicate impact to nonprofit stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. If nonprofit leaders neglect the art and science behind storytelling, they leave prospects to decide donation-worthiness or attempt to discern impact from ratios and ratings.

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3 Rules to Create Awesome Content that Gets More Engagement

Association TV

42 Newton ratio. They showed you, or me, sitting and talking about our universal headache of dealing with email subscription lists that were a giant pain to get rid of. Is what I’m about to say valuable to my audience and, if it is, am I saying it in a way they’ll understand and want to engage with? Can you tell I know cars?).

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How much do you spend on overhead?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Shelbee Axsom-Anderson is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Nonprofits.

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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

Media Cause

This tool by WebAIM checks the contrast between your foreground and background by providing ratios based on hex codes. . Remember, the contrast ratio between text and a text’s background should be at least 4.5:1. This resource gives detailed WCAG ratings on how content appears as standard text, large text, and graphical objects.

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How can nonprofits acquire skilled talent to better achieve their mission?

ASU Lodestar Center

New York University professor Paul Light writes, “(Nonprofit) Employees are members of a first-rate workforce often employed in second-rate organizations with third-rate equipment.” Overhead ratio” refers to the amount of money a nonprofit spends on its mission vs. money spent on overhead costs. Dismantling the overhead myth.

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Why should charitable donors invest in nonprofit infrastructure?

ASU Lodestar Center

The unrealistic expectations that have been created through the nonprofit starvation cycle by donors only continues to rise as nonprofit efficiency is judged on financial ratios. Donors need to be educated on the harsh reality of solely judging an organization’s efficiency through financial ratios.

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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.