Association Analytics

JANUARY 29, 2024

Below is a breakdown of membership predictive analytics and how it can help associations see the future so they can act before it’s too late. Use your new crystal ball to help build your mid- and end-of-year strategies. Can you imagine having a crystal ball foresee which members will renew and which ones need extra attention?

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

This helped to nurture and engage these members until they were eligible. On the flip side of the Double Down strategy, IAEE was also able to identify activities and projects the team was spending time on that didn’t offer much return on investment. They then promoted that content to unengaged members with similar profiles.

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Data Strategy Associations Survey 210

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

An effective nonprofit blog is an indispensable marketing tool. The best blogs engage audiences by making personal connections with readers and sharing insider mission information. One of the most important steps in building a productive blogging strategy is creating content that engages and appeals to your audience.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

To meet those requirements, you’ll need to be able to successfully track and manage your grants and effectively report on how you allocated these funds. Fund accounting systems with grant management can help you from beginning to end if you are a grant-funded organization—or want to be. Tracking: Cut Out the Spreadsheets!

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

From the goal of your organization to how finances are managed, it’s important to understand how for-profit accounting and nonprofit accounting differ so you can help drive success for your new organization. Tracking Your Income While it’s true the goal of your income is different at a nonprofit organization, you still want revenue.

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Profit Fund Grant Track 87

Neon CRM

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogging can be a unique and powerful way for nonprofit organizations to connect with their audience. However, with so many blogs out there (let alone all the other media your audiences see every day), it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd. But those basics only set the foundation of your blog.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Because engagement is critical to retaining members, many associations are using a member engagement score to track and build loyalty. Use your data to find out how your customers interact with the organization and how it changes over time, which can help you understand member journeys. Award Nominees. Volunteers. Influencers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. The average lifespan of a tweet is 15 minutes , so if your nonprofit wants to engage your followers regularly on Twitter, you’ll need to be very active on Twitter daily.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Read our blog to learn more about online communities and discover how your association can use one to boost member connections and loyalty. Leveraging a branded online community helps your members find and network with like-minded individuals at their association. An online community improves member loyalty and drives engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of Artificial Intelligence to better understand what nonprofits need to know about artificial intelligence to future proof their programs, marketing, and fundraising strategies? Source: AI for Lawyers (Click image for larger version).

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Even though unrestricted funds don’t have mandates on how they should be spent, tracking and reporting on them is still important for both your donors and for your organization’s financial decision-making. Creating a culture of transparency starts with clear tracking by individual program, fund, or project.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

11 Digital Marketing KPIs That Every Nonprofit Should Be Tracking. Without tracking how your digital marketing strategy is performing, you can’t know how to improve or where to invest next to see results. Analytics tracking takes the guesswork out of important decisions around fund allocation, investment and marketing.

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Track Digital Marketing Analytics 52

Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it.

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review three ways your fundraising software can help your nonprofit maintain compliance: Activity data Donation tracking Volunteer tools Fundraising events of all types require careful data tracking, but donations made at an auction are especially complex to manage and record.

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Software Fundraising Files Nonprofit 97

Byte Technology

JANUARY 14, 2022

They had a very clear vision, which is so helpful. Next, we created a marketing dashboard tool for scheduling and tracking social posts, email marketing blasts, and blog posting. We want to monitor the success of our online campaigns and activity. The monthly time bundles include marketing meetings and reporting.

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Marketing Broadcast Analysis Awareness 243

Candid

APRIL 23, 2024

In my last article , I examined some of the key findings from the latest CF Insights survey , conducted annually by the Council on Foundations to track trends in community foundation activity and growth. Nearly all (99%) respondents said they reach out to DAF holders to encourage them to keep their accounts active.

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Grant Foundation Fund Community 59

Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

We’re here to help! To make posting easier, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite time-saving tools to help you create the best nonprofit social media campaign ever. Scheduling software can make posting on social media far less time consuming and help you stay organized. The good news? Check out some of our favorites!

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Social Media Tools Media Create 89

Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

At Virtuous, we believe that the Responsive Fundraising Framework is foundational in helping fundraisers cultivate meaningful relationships with donors that increase generosity. Read on to learn more about how the responsive framework and donor signals can help you make sure to have the right people in the right room for the right event.

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Donor Survey Social Media Database 104

sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

Most of your established grantees will have documented internal controls, but it’s always good to verify and help them establish these practices if they aren’t already in place. How do you track time and effort? The post How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Grant Policy International Application 91

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

To help improve your nonprofit advertising and online outreach , this guide will explore why your digital presence matters and how you can maximize these benefits. This provides prospective supporters who click on your ads or research your organization with evidence that your nonprofit is active and trustworthy. Influencer marketing.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

You can use it to monitor growth in your site, spot the more popular pages or blog posts, and assess the effectiveness of your marketing strategies. This can help you to tailor your site and strategies towards potential volunteers and supporters, building awareness and growing donations.

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Analytics Google Instruction Instructional 76

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 11, 2021

There are several new, exciting tools for Salesforce Administrators in the Salesforce Summer ’21 Release , such as Learning Paths and the Active Licenses tab. Release Notes Available in Salesforce Help. Moving forward, all Salesforce release notes are available on Salesforce Help. Easily Track Active Licenses.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

An active field of research in the 1960s, machine learning is now deeply embedded in our daily lives—from receiving recommended products while we’re online shopping to Google helping us autocomplete our emails. In this blog, I will first explain how Candid currently harnesses the power of AI technologies in our data and tools.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

While these changes may feel overwhelming, there are easy things you can do with your current staff and set of resources that will help position your association to thrive in 2024. You should be able to observe data points that help to fill in gaps such as years in the profession, years as a member, and member types.

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Impact Strategy Associations Data 169

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Update Assigned Tasks One major pitfall to avoid during periods of staff turnover at your grantmaking organization is leaving ongoing activities or requests assigned to people who no longer work there. Action items not assigned to an active team member can lead to phone calls, meetings, and other crucial tasks not being completed.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Much of this has to do with how people appreciate each other as well as building a sense of community, followed by activities and supporting policies in the workplace. It offers customizable reminders to check in and track progress in a fun way. But there are also bots that can help combat workplace harassment.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Luckily, there are plenty of free social listening tools available that can help you track your brand, monitor your competition, and understand what people are saying about your cause. Social listening is the process of tracking online conversations in order to better understand what people are saying about a given topic.

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Tools Guide Social Social Media 98

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact. This can help identify best practices, leverage resources more effectively, and avoid duplication of efforts.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Other AI solutions nonprofits commonly use include chatbots or virtual assistants to help streamline manual work. Some of the most helpful solutions for fundraising are data processors like IBM Watson or Google Cloud AI. These solutions leverage predictive analytics to help anticipate future donor actions.

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Tools Donor Fundraising Survey 84

M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Apple Mail Privacy Protection works by pre-loading email content — including open tracking pixels. Reminder, email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in email content. You’ll see them go by different names, but for the sake of this blog I’m going to call them: Human opens — what “opens” were before this change rolled out.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Very few schools have centralized graduate student recruitment activities, and each department handles its own program. When the departments are working in silos with disparate processes and technology to track students and activities, they are more likely to duplicate efforts, increase costs, and yield inaccurate student information.

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Media Cause

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog post is the second of a series on MarTech. If you are unfamiliar with the term and what it includes or would like a refresher, check out the first blog of the series here. This insight helps make informed decisions, understand donor behavior, and tailor strategies to increase effectiveness. #3

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Adopt Nonprofit Platform Law 59

Qgiv

MARCH 29, 2023

Since 2011, Give Back Nation’s Google Certified Ad Grant Manager team has helped over 5,400 nonprofits manage their Ad Grants. In this “ beyond 101 ” Google Ad Grants guide, we will touch on things to know to help optimize and increase success. Track and learn. What is the Google Ad Grants Program?

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Grant Google Nonprofit National 97

Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause. And with the right event management tools, organizing your guests and tracking your fundraising progress can be done all in one place!

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Software Tools Management Registration 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Yet, until recently, they also meant our staff spent extensive time and energy calling families to track down re-enrollment contracts each year. Thus, our business office could budget further in advance and our administrative team spent less time tracking down contracts. It was a significant improvement over previous years.

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