Seth Godin has a great post from yesterday called “Let me see.“ It’s 18 ideas of how to present data in a way that is more valuable - such as a list of doctors in my down sorted by malpractice rate or car models sorted by crash and repair data (I’d add injuries and fatalities [...]
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I read an article recently touting the power of a metric called “Net Promoter Score” or NPS. You can read all about NPS at Net Promoter. The metric is deceptively simple - and that’s the power. It’s easy to measure and managing to it has real results.
With NPS you ask one question: “Would you recommend [...]
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Over the last few days I have been looking for good research on workplace giving. I have to conclude that there’s not a lot, or that I’m just not good at finding it. There’s some content at Charity Navigator and many charities have information on their sites about how to support them in the workplace. [...]
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In a short by thought-provoking article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the authors point out the difference between what people feel they are doing with their donations (47% said assist the needy) and where their donations were actually going (6% actually). This is a big gap!
It’s even more astonishing that 67% of the people [...]
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I just read a great post from Beth Kantor regarding the impact of Facebook on charitable donations. It raises the question of impact, but the data is still not complete. So, I’m going to take a stab here by analyzing the top charity app on Facebook - Causes.
Quick note on Causes: a [...]
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I have been working on the planning section of Givvy.com all day today. The goal is to keep it simple - few have the hours to spend working on a giving plan these days. So, we kept it simple.
How much should you give?
What types of causes should you give to (education, animals, environment, [...]
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We had our first demo of Givvy today for a VC. The site is coming along nicely and the demo was flawless. Great work Seth & James! There was a bit of a debate with one of the partners about whether or not we should seek to get active support from charities in order to [...]
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There are over 1.3 million nonprofits in the U.S., two-thirds of which are considered “public charities.” There’s a real long-tail phenomenon here in that very few nonprofits get to any real size. In fact, over 81% of U.S. nonprofits see less than $1 million in annual revenues, and 93% are under $5 million according to [...]
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I’ve been asking that question lately of a lot of people. The answer I get invariably takes the form of
“Uh, what? Oh, well, um… I don’t really know. I give to [school name here] and my church and then a bunch of donations to other charities…” which they proceed to list.
Given that [...]
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