June - Monthly Report

“We monitor our progress closely using a variety of different metrics which we will publicly report on every month. 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 unpaid staff and volunteers are putting in. This has an estimated opportunity cost of between $4,000 and $8,000. 

Our major time costs were communications and networking. These reflect well what we want to spend the majority of our time doing and we feel as though we made good outreach/fundraising progress this month.

Financial

Excluding staff costs, our current financial cost is very low (~$36 this month). Costs are mostly fees from going to events and website hosting. They went down this month due to moving closer to events and thus reducing travel costs. We did not even feel it was worth the time to make the chart for this small a sum of money.

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 equally as effective overall as our average month. 

Below are the outputs we tracked:

Money moved to evidence based charities: $1000+ 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 or our unpaid Charity Science staff and would not have been donated to evidence-based charities otherwise. 
  
• We expect this number to trend upwards in the future, particularly after our fundraising event.
  
• We view this as our most important metric.
  

Number of new volunteers: 0 new volunteers, 9 total. 
Events: 9 attended, 2 hosted

• We attended far more events, due to our new location
  

Website traffic: ~850 sessions

• This number is smaller due to switching to a different website tracking software this month we got considerably more website traffic then previous months. This was main due to getting our blog post featured on Skepchick (a popular skeptics blog). 
  

Information gained: Networking

• After analyzing our data we feel we have learned quite a bit about which groups are most interested in effective charities (full blog post on this in the works)
  

Other

• Xio was featured on the radio to talk about Charity Science
• We were featured on Skepchick
• We wrote a guest blog post for a fundraising website
  
• We were invited to write blog posts for Atheist Republic