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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

Neon CRM

To make it easier, we’ve organized the components of a nonprofit business plan into three categories based on your responsibilities: Board Support and Guidance Vision and Values Alignment Financial and Resource Planning Executive Summary: A brief overview of the nonprofit’s mission, goals, and strategies.

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

An organization’s budget, financial statements and summary reports to Boards of Directors should all do the following: Set expectations (budget and/or prior year experience, plus acceptable variations to. Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. Simplify without Compromise.

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Guest Post: Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We begin with a summary and then group your information into three categories: Programs and Results . This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Our reorganized profiles offer a clearer view of each nonprofit organization.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

Your organization’s logo is the visual summary of your organization’s brand. However, if these engagement metrics are chronically low, your nonprofit may need more than routine maintenance—you may need an overhaul. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. Include alternative text on images.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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A Lesson on Budgeting from the Blackbaud Management Team

Connection Cafe

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. Remember to align your metrics and drivers with your long-term strategic goals, rather than focusing narrowly on “cutting postage expense in Q1”, for example. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation!