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Metrics for Grant-Seeking By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. After finding our 200 nonprofits, we created a spreadsheet where we recorded their names, websites, and each organization’s mission statement. We also downloaded their IRS Form 990s?from

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How to Craft a 1-Page Nonprofit Annual Report

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What a Nonprofit Annual Report Is Your annual report has one job: to provide an overview of your nonprofit’s activities and key metrics for a specific year. So, what 3 or 4 key performance metrics can you share that give someone a good idea of the impact of your work during the year?

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Stewardship: The Key to Keeping Corporate Partners Coming Back for Decades [SPONSORED]

Selfish Giving

In Catalist’s own 2018 Corporate Partnership Benchmarking Study , nonprofits reported that 85% of their annual revenue portfolio comes from their existing partners. For example, if they are a lower-level partner, create a templated wrap report that showcases your brand and mission, but allows for easy plug-and-play metrics per partner.

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Program Management Statistics: 12 Stats and How to Use Them

Get Fully Funded

By collecting essential metrics as part of your program management process, you’ll be able to use this information to: Identify program gaps and areas of need. Using predefined metrics can be incredibly valuable for determining how well your nonprofit has been meeting the needs of your constituents and where you can adjust for greater impact.

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4 Tips for Leveraging Data in Your Grant Report

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

With relevant metrics, you can communicate your accomplishments to funders and demonstrate whether you’re on track to reach the objectives laid out in your proposal. As you prepare to report on your nonprofit’s impact and performance, be sure that you’re actively collecting and studying the key metrics that the funder will be considering.

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What the 2020 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report Tells Us About 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

All three metrics dropped slightly from 2019 to 2020. In other words, charities were able to attract more new donors in 2020 than they were in 2019, as well as recapture donors who gave in 2018 (or prior) but not in 2019. The overall 2020 donor retention rate was 43.6%, a 4.1% to an average of 19.2%. increase in new donors and a 13.7%