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The FEP (Fundraising Effectiveness Project) aims at helping non-profits quicken fundraising. The Project strives towards the above objective by offering yearly charity growth tracking and evaluation features to nonprofits. An increase in giving may be defined as net gains minus net losses in contribution (Tools - Fundraising Effectiveness Project). Nonprofit entities raise a larger sum of money via investments in growth-focused fundraising methods which amplify gains as well as decrease losses. FEP's emphasis is "effectiveness" (or charity growth maximization) instead of "efficiency" (or cost minimization). A yearly survey is performed, helpful performance measurement instruments for gauging increase in giving are provided, and loss/gain statistics are issued via an annual report, by partnering with The Urban Institute, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and participant donor software companies. FEP resources back growth-focused fundraising initiatives. The Gig (Growth in Giving) program endeavors to increase philanthropy's GDP (gross domestic product) share. This initiative has assumed the shape of a large umbrella agency, in tandem with the development of the novel Gig Database (with its considerable research capacity). At present, over 6,000 nonprofits are now participating in the effort.Data/Variables
An Excel-based, downloadable Fundraising Fitness Assessment...
Additionally, the 7 Excel-based downloadable Gig Reports templates (simplified and revised) offer informative, though brief, representations of fundraising losses and gains -- attrition and growth in philanthropy -- in an easy, reader-friendly design which may be conveniently understood by executive board members and staff. By means of the Gig Database, developed recently at the NCCS (National Center for Charitable Statistics) of the Urban Institute, FEP has created its downloadable NFFS (National Fundraising Fitness Statistics). The Excel file offers comparative statistics to users of the Fitness Test, in a format identical to that of eleven Fitness Assessment reports for a total of 6314 medium and small sized organizations (more than 750 performance indicators).
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Nonprofits normally track their overall Gig results carefully but are typically not as attentive to the losses and gains making up these results. Examining only the bottom-line or net performance, on the whole, offers no information to boards and managers regarding what's actually happening to their fundraising efforts or which area to invest…
(Braunschweig; Day, 150) Most of the current generation of project managers expects the project management tools to furnish them with almost real-time knowledge in order to facilitate their decision-making. Some of these tools like DOFF, "Field of the Future," "Smart Fields," Microsoft's "Oilfield Connectivity" and i-Fields are currently being examined by exploration and production oil companies. Some of these tools have the capability of generating information from apparently incongruent data
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