August - Monthly Report

“We monitor our progress closely using a variety of different metrics which we will publicly report on monthly. Additionally we plan on having an internal review of effectiveness every six months, and an external review done every year. This will help us both evaluate our impact and set new goals for the following year. For more information you can contact us and ask specific questions.”

Costs

The major costs of any organization are time and money. The breakdown of our use of time and money are shown below. Our major cost in running Charity Science is the time our staff and volunteers are putting in.

Time Information

We had around 343 hours of work which is higher than our average month. A lot of this was spent on our upcoming event happening September.

Money Information

Staff cost is approximately $2000 per month. Our current financial cost outside of staff cost is very low (~$20).

Outputs

We track many different outputs but generally prefer the ones that are more directly connected to doing good (e.g. dollars donated to effective charities is better than website traffic). We feel this month was much better overall than our average month. 

Below are the outputs we tracked:

Money moved to evidence based charities: $700 this month (not including match)

• We count money moved to effective charities only if we are extremely confident that the money was donated due to activities done by Charity Science.
  
• We expect this number to trend upwards in the future, particularly after our fundraising event.
  
• We view this as our most important metric. 
  

Events: 6 attended, 0 hosted

• After analyzing our current results we do not feel that attending events is high impact
  

Website traffic: ~444 sessions

• our traffic dropped from last month
  

Other

• We are working on getting broader application of our birthday fundraisers
  
• We advised on a research project into possible corporate giving for top charities
  
• We successfully acquired some of the operations funding we were seeking

Improvements

Last month

• Gain some more funding for our personal expenses. We contacted funders and were able to acquire $1,000 of the remaining $5,000 we were seeking. 
• More than 20+ people have joined the charity science walk
  
• We did write up a post on networking
  

This month

• We still need to set up a set up a way to track where people go when they leave our website (specifically to determine how many go to GiveWell/proven charities)
  
• Write another post for Atheist Republic
  
• Pick/contact and talk to fundraising consultants about how to improve our impact