M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Tracking how many people wanted to know more (clicks) or were inspired to act (advocacy actions, survey submissions, or donations) have always been better metrics of success. Anyone who’s clicking, donating, taking action, or registering a human open (in systems where you can tell the difference) stays in.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. Email advocacy response rates are down 15%. The bottom line is that if you’re not growing your email file, then you’re doomed to decline. Most individual email metrics have continued to decline.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Sometimes, it requires taking a step back to gain perspective on all the different ways data storytelling can enhance advocacy efforts. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. It also succeeds in appealing to the audience's emotions, which can be essential when including a call to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

With all the communications sent to the Hill today,adding a voice advocacy program, backed up with mobile, can lead to increased visibility for your organization's grassroots lobbying efforts. Watch video & take action @ [link]. Twitter and Mobile and Mobile Advocacy.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. While social media platforms are in constant evolution, nonprofits are learning to innovate and experiment with engagement techniques for advocacy and fundraising. But only 6% took three or more actions.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If Whenever you post an action alert, simply add &s_src=facebook to your link.) For us, it's also a critical source for advocacy. Our Facebook recruits have proven themselves to be above average action takers – with an average of 1.7 actions each thus far.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Everything we do online (our website, email program, advertising, social) is tied to our goals of advocacy and fundraising, or some other kind of lead generation. Twitter is the one that surprised me the most. Please summarize your ROI.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

Data hygiene refers to any of the actions your organization takes to keep data consistent and free of errors. Holding on to decades of donor data can also make migrating to a new CRM frustrating as your organization may incur added costs due to the size of the file. Update and correct data.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 19, 2016

Filing for the expenditure test also lays out certain governmental activities that don’t count as lobbying. Organizations like churches and private foundations aren’t allowed to file for the election, but can lobby under the substantial use test. Differences between Lobbying and Advocacy. For Organizations That Don’t Lobby.

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Care2

MAY 24, 2013

Online Revenue and Advocacy Growth. Advocacy saw an 8.7% increase in actions taken and 11.9% Interestingly, it was food banks and organizations with smaller email files that outperformed other verticals and larger organizations. On a more positive note, median online revenue grew by 11.6%. First time gifts grew 3%.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Outlining your goals before executing the campaign ensures each action you take is directly related to a target that furthers your mission. Conversion rate: The percentage of users who took the intended action (e.g.,

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

He’s spent his career working to inspire others take action, and he personifies a generation of talented people who want to use their skills to help others. Kluwe filed the petition believing that his support for LGBT rights cost him his job. Why will this action help? Justin Lyons is a master persuader for social justice.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Team DNL’s Nonprofit Technology Consulting At DNL OmniMedia, we work with large organizations and growing nonprofits to help them use technology to reach their fundraising and advocacy goals. CRM and Data Management: Our services include migrating data and files across your solutions and customizing your CRM to meet your exact needs.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Take another action? Avoid the wonk.

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Social Media Advocacy Online Tips 40

NTEN

APRIL 20, 2010

In 2007, Comcast was outed for slowing down traffic to Bit Torrent , a popular file sharing site. You should also check out SavetheInternet to learn more and take action today. Tags: Advocacy broadband Leadership net neutrality sms text. Think we're being paranoid? Think again. It already happened to NARAL ProChoice America.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

High action rates. In practice, email appeals have among the highest action rates of any digital channel. You can also send just a quick three sentence action alert with a link! . Like any email action, you’ll want to measure the results to see if it makes sense to do it again. Asynchronous delivery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We are also investing in a complete overhaul of our 17,000 file website at BigCatRescue.org that has taken 9 months and thousands of dollars, but will result in integrating social aspects that should improve our reach and influence. The site currently has 1.6 Anything else?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2020

A Google Analytics goal is any action someone may take on your website that your organization considers a conversion (a win!). Petition signatures or other advocacy activities. Event goals are registered every time a user conducts a specific action on your website, such as a video play, file download, or button click.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, you can use the feature to track an advocacy day letter-writing campaign (job) or an advocacy day event on Monday or Tuesday (shift). Optimize your sales strategy using the Product Insights dashboard and upload quota data using a CSV file. Our solution can streamline the management of volunteer jobs and shifts.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. As noted earlier, the key is speed of execution and immediate action opportunity. Enter Susan. Not in a month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Conversations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

You've developed e-advocacy tools to rush public policy action alerts to supporters who can advocate for fair and ethical local, national and global policies. And you use e-commerce and online fundraising to bring in the funding needed to ensure long-term program and advocacy effectiveness. Action alerts on specific topics.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The details of your emails are critical.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

If you've worked on any sort of campaign, you know there are three key pieces to creating change: Mobilizing your base to take action Recruiting new people to your base Inserting your message into the popular debate. Recruiting new people : People who sign the petition and are NOT in your house file are new recruits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2017

Is your organization clear on your position and action plan if your cause becomes a major local, national or international issue? Is your leadership team clear on how you will respond, and do your marketing and advocacy leads have insight into what your position is? The Call to Action Was Clear. Their Impact was Clear.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

advocacy opportunities, matching gift and volunteer grant information, event calendar, and more. This is because modern nonprofit websites are much more than informational tools— they’re donation processing tools, volunteer and event registration tools, and even channels for direct advocacy actions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This painful process involved waiting for our webinar vendor to finalize the attendance report, downloading it as a.csv file, manually " de-duping " the data, and then uploading the clean data into our CRM. You can catch the action yourself on the recorded webinar.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For example, if my housefile is 10k and I send one email to everyone that’s 10k sends, but if I slice my file into two groups and send a total of three messages, I will have sent 15k total emails. Yes, more email, but also a more thoughtful approach that will seek to drive higher number of actions for fundraising or advocacy campaigns.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Whats the longest video a nonprofit can post?

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Are you promoting the same advocacy page on Facebook that you're using in your online advertising? It's essential to set things up so that you know where someone who makes a donation or takes action comes from. Once you've sourced everything, I recommend tracking raw data – the actual numbers of clicks, actions, donations, etc.

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Metrics Benchmark Rate Newsletter 55

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

We focused on action and making change for the patient. From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals. It's a call-to-action. We focused on the patient. It's a statement.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Whats the longest video a nonprofit can post?

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YouTube Video Social Media Advocacy 34

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A Venn diagram of the projects I work on in a given month would include circles for editing, fundraising, advocacy, web production, and journalism. BR for POGO: Action alerts! The database houses hundreds upon hundreds of post-employment statements filed by former employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2018

A similar scenario can be drawn in the case of Hunger and Poverty organizations, or Advocacy orgs like the Human Rights Campaign, where more sensitive information is passed between nonprofits and their audiences, like if I’m LGBTQ. Map out what you do now that needs to change because of platform changes. If we have any changes in U.S.

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