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Study: Religiously Affiliated Are More Likely To Trust Charities

The NonProfit Times

of atheists rate their trust in charities as 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale, as compared to 55.6% Third-party evaluations and financial ratios are relatively more important among agnostics, atheists, Jewish, and Protestants. Perhaps more disturbing, 44% rate their trust in charities as 5 or less, according to Taylor.

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. Organizations also fear being penalized by some of the ratings services.

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What Is a Good Fundraising Efficiency Ratio?

Neon CRM

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Why Is Understanding My Fundraising Efficiency Ratio Important? Why should you track it?

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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

Bloomerang

They’ve still got some consideration and evaluation to do. The second biggest mistake is not doing enough to retain event donors, who have some of the highest lapse rates of all donors. . When it comes to individual giving, an acceptable cost-benefit ratio can depend on a range of factors: Your organization’s history, age, and size.

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Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating machine learning prototyping with interactive tools

Google Research AI blog

It usually involves a cross-functional team of ML practitioners who fine-tune the models, evaluate robustness, characterize strengths and weaknesses, inspect performance in the end-use context, and develop the applications. Sign up to be notified when Visual Blocks for ML is publicly available.