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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

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Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget. However, this is not a universal benchmark.

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At the site of the dinosaur-killing crater, scientists find a surprise

Mashable Tech

In the core drilled from the impact site, called "Chicxulub crater" (which you should Google for a novel Google-created search result), researchers found a ratio of the metallic element osmium that is associated with asteroid remnants.

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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Butterflies have a high surface-to-volume ratio they dont hold much moisture so they can easily become desiccated in dry conditions. Eliza Grames is an assistant professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York. The Southwest saw the greatest drops in butterfly abundance of any region.

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Florida State University professor Roy F. 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.

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Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting research

The Verge

Image: University of Liverpool. The machine, designed by scientists from the UK’s University of Liverpool, is far from fully autonomous: it needs to be programmed with the location of lab equipment and can’t design its own experiments. Image: University of Liverpool. It’s a different paradigm.”.

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22 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.” That said, in the book I wish I would have written to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often” – here are four reasons why. are now responsively designed.

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33 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.” That said, in the book I wish I would have written to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often” – here are four reasons why. Chapter 8 :: How to Claim Your Facebook Place Page.