On 3/5/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
I wanted to bring this up because, as a charity with limited resources,
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Perhaps "a charity with limited resources" is the wrong mindset to an extent. "A charity which is not yet effective at bringing in supporting funding given its exposure" is probably a lot more accurate.
It's true that all charities need to be wise with their spending, but the same is also true of virtually all businesses. I like to think of our position as unusually 'poor' to be more of a temporary situation which we should be attempting to cure. Once past that hump we can stop letting "how can we best save money" get in the way of "how can we best perform our mission" in the situations where those two goals diverge.
I welcome off-list data on the viewer/donation and fund drive take rate ratios of other NPOs. :)