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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

sgEngage

Overhead to program expense ratio Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year Programmatic statistics related to mission impact As with many multiple-choice tests, there is only one answer here that makes sense: programmatic statistics related to mission impact.

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The Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix

Blue Fox

download the full matrix How Do Your Financials Measure Up? Our team at Blue Fox created this Magical Ratio Matrix to help your organization measure its financial health against industry standards. So, how do you measure up? What are the red flags for each ratio? Are your ratios within the acceptable range?

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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. How can you show your constituents that your organization is doing its best with what it has? How to Best Illustrate ROI.

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Benchmarking: Networked Nonprofits Measure Their Social Media Results In A Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms. A benchmarking process can help.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are seven tips to help you start measuring social media efforts. Understand how Google Analytics calculates unique visitors and how Feedburner calculates subscribers , but please don’t get so hung up on the geeky part of measurement that you don’t have enough time to gather insights and apply them. If not, why? If yes, why?

Measure 95
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These simple metrics will tell you if your startup is ready to scale

TechCrunch

With these, you can measure the health and profitability of your business. By combining them into a simple equation, you can get your LTV:CAC ratio (long-term customer value to customer acquisition cost), which is a measure of your business’ long-term financial outlook. If the LTV:CAC is over 3, you’re ready to scale.

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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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