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4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit

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Impact of Transparency in Nonprofits Studies show that organizations that provided better and more information to stakeholders raised substantially more money in subsequent years than organizations that didn’t share information with stakeholders. If the data is proven, why in the world isn’t everyone doing this?

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How to effectively communicate impact to nonprofit stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

Studies show that donors ask less about where their money is spent and more about the impact their donation is making. 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. What criteria do they use to make these decisions?

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Facebook Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know

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If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000.

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How to Analyze Learning KPIs?

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According to one MIT study, CEOs overlook only two or three KPIs. Spare no expense and limit yourself to the most influential metrics—those that directly contribute to your goals. Convert Metrics to Measures. Ratios, percentages, and rates are used to express KPI measurements. For example, net profit changes from X to Y.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. However, studies reveal that most nonprofits still view evaluation as exclusively about program outputs, and they often perceive data gathering as a resource drain and distraction. As part of a. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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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. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The PTAT metric includes all the following activities that happen on your page over a one-week rolling period: Liking a page.

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