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

Bloomerang

The importance of a cost-benefit analysis for your fundraising strategies. James Greenfield is the guru of fundraising cost-benefit analysis. They’ve still got some consideration and evaluation to do. raised ratio, or would he/she prefer it generate $4 million at the cost of $1 million, for a $0.25 raised ratio?

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How to Create a Fairly Meaningful Budget for 2021

Blue Fox

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. Information is data that requires analysis. And, through analysis, your organization can generate insight and inform strategic budget decisions. Remember: information is NOT insight.

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

Get Fully Funded

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. And you’ll know exactly how much you need to raise during that season if you take the time to do a midyear evaluation now.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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Sales Operations Demystified: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How To Do It Right

Wild Apricot

As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Analysis of territory allocation and account assignment plan.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure. To quantify intangibles look and listen.

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