Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 Schools have all these legal and political mandates to get this kind of network, and increase their computer:student ratio, and so on.

Summary 100

Summary Consultant NTC Technology 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

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.

Report 86

Report Ratio Tucson Director 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. For engagement, I looked at the Repin Ratio by board and select those with the highest ratio. The ratio is the total number of repins divided by total pins. Followers: Gives a measure of reach. Engagement.

Benchmark 104

Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

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. Operations.

Profile 50

Profile Ratio Green Nonprofit 50

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your organization’s logo is the visual summary of your organization’s brand. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. For instance, if your mission has to do with environmental conservation, you may choose green as one brand color. It should be a simple symbolmark or wordmark that you can use on your website.

Websites 115

Websites Nonprofit Audience Mobile 115

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Traditionally, companies offer a 1:1 match ratio but some employers do a 1:2 or even a 1:3 match on all donations, up to a maximum amount. Let’s say a donor’s $50 gift was matched at 1:1 ratio. A successful call to action will do three things: Provide a brief, one sentence summary of the fundraising website itself.

Websites 52

Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These gifts often come from a donor’s employer and match their donation on a 1:1 ratio. For instance, with Qgiv, your confirmation pages support custom content so it can be more than a transaction summary. Matching gifts are another avenue worth pursuing when it comes to maximizing the potential of your online fundraising platform.

Platform 52

Platform Online Fundraising Gift 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I pulled together a curated summary of the tweets and resources on Storify that you can view here. I promised folks that I would share a summary blog post with links, questions, and resources. Curation tools are platforms that let you display your collection. Mindmap by Jane Genovese - Click for Larger Version.

Content 106

Content NTEN Reflection Benefit 106

Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation! Budgets are, or should be, more than a record of “what we think we’ll earn, and what we think we’ll spend”.

Blackbaud 36

Blackbaud Team Management Lesson 36

BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

A financial analysis is typically a summary of key organizational financial data from the most recent 5 years of the Form 990, including calculations of growth rates, profitability, liquidity and asset ratios. Specific areas to evaluate are: signs of unmanageable financial problems, negative trends, or anomalies.

New York 40

New York Collaboration Nonprofit Exercise 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting. Your teams needs to accept that you have to make choices. Take a trend-line view. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Do you have too many back-to-back meetings?

Collaboration 122

Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

Practice 109

Practice Tips Social Meme 109

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.),

Social Media 102

Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fundraisers should also analyze how much idealized potential exists for a proposed campaign by calculating the low, middle, and high end of capacity ranges, thus weighting “hit rates” or yield ratios.

Analytics 20

Analytics Gift Strategy Fundraising 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - My grade is 100 which means that my account scores higher than 100.0 percent of the 714018 users that have been graded. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. -

Twitter 50

Twitter Practice Bookmarking Profile 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

There was lots of good advice and specific recommendations (see my summary here.) Also, if we want to see a more balance female/male ratio of podcast gatherings, more women need to show up. As John pointed out in his talk, content is the most important - which can be a barrier. They answered, "We actually do not podcast here.

Podcast 50

Podcast Audio Captivate Ratio 50

Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

The sponsor could include a reference to your cause on their corporate philanthropy page, or they could agree to match gifts to your organization at a higher ratio than gifts to other causes. Make sure to follow up after the volunteer event with a well thought out thank you, and a summary of their hard work!

Sample 98

Sample Sponsor Template Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

" Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." Do you read the summaries? " What do those guidelines look like?

Guidelines 50

Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. What is your post to comment ratio? Demographics How many people visit the site? What do they click on?

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56