Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

Data is key to optimizing non-dues revenue Data plays a pivotal role in driving success for associations, particularly when it comes to non-dues revenue generation. Creating Data Products – One area with significant untapped potential for associations is the creation of data products.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With ChatGPT entering the scene, we’re presented with an innovative way to enhance these dimensions. 1) SWOT Analysis: Capitalizing on Organizational Insights A cornerstone of strategic planning, the SWOT analysis delves into the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Output as a table.”

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Digital Strategy Guide Create 295

M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) Your data security and anonymity are VERY IMPORTANT to us.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While they use visually appealing graphics to highlight their data points, they never overshadow the focal points of the report: the people at the center of the organization. While many nonprofits present their annual reviews in a static PDF format, there are more hands-on options that you can pursue. The American Kidney Fund.

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M+R

APRIL 24, 2024

Visit mrbenchmarks.com now to explore all the charts, analysis, insights, and more! This year, 225 wonderful nonprofits partners joined in the fun, contributing data on fundraising, advocacy, engagement, mobilization, and marketing. New Yorkers: come see us on May 22 for a live presentation from 4–5:30; party from 5:30–7:30pm.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. Tools and channels that house data often do not make it easy to navigate. Not sure how to compare or connect data sources. Does this sound familiar?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way. How to glean insights : Having the data is one thing, but knowing what insights to pull with confidence that it is the right picture is quite another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) Your data security and anonymity are VERY IMPORTANT to us.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Two poster boys of nonprofit data sanity: Bob Penna (l) and Steve Pratt (r). This has given me a lot of opportunities to reflect on how difficult it can be for people whose expertise lies elsewhere to orient themselves to data governance. Steve Pratt ‘s blog article “ Drowning in Data ?” Unported License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You. Here’s the description: Social media analytics can help you understand the active members of your social media audience, but what about the people who aren’t posting? This session presents a new form of social media analysis that combines social and survey data.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

As organizations look for more efficient ways to make, keep and grow relationships, bring in more money, measure outcomes and demonstrate impact, analytics become a key enabler. What is “Analytics”? . While this sounds like a clear “no brainer”, organizations often struggle to implement these types of data-driven decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful!

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Analytics Tools Social New York City 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

What Does the Data Say? What Does the Data Say? Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. Caity and Gary Carr , co-founder of Third Sector Labs, co-presented. You may also download a copy of the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2012

When all of our supporter data was on 3x5 cards or in a couple of spreadsheets, a lot of the fundraising work we did involved educated guesswork, by necessity. With the data available to us now, we can segment, slice, dice, even predict future donor behavior, all without a statistics degree.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. What is Google Analytics 4? What are the differences between UA and GA4?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Eric Peterson, Web Analytics Demystified. The Analysis Exchange is a first-of-its-kind effort to freely provide analytical insights to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end. It is that simple.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the heart of every effective Salesforce implementation lies a good data strategy. Its AI can simply help make an organization’s data more accessible, more relevant, and more actionable than ever before – all with the safeguards that make for responsible AI use. All this is just the start, however.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Businesses deal with a lot of data, and analyzing it in its raw form is frequently difficult. The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Tableau is the most extensively used data visualization application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2013

During the last presidential election, the role of analytics in decision making and prediction moved to the forefront in the minds of many as a way to gain an advantage in competitive situations. There has been an ever-expanding market for statisticians, business analysts, and data analysts that is screaming for more qualified applicants.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s world, data drives so much for nonprofit organizations. Business intelligence (BI) is the process of making sense of that data to identify trends, predict outcomes and inform decisions at the highest level. Errors and inconsistencies can still creep in, no matter how advanced data hygiene tools become.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2013

There are several resources out there that you can investigate on the subject of learning the mechanics and strategies behind database analytics as it relates to your various fundraising programs and initiatives. So if you need to make the case to invest time and money in learning more about analytics, hopefully this is helpful.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Orr Group applies analytical frameworks and ROI-based models developed in the for-profit world to help with nonprofit development. Website: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Data Analytics. Data Analytics Software. Generate, analyze and present reports. Performance Metrics Analyses. Formulation of Incentives Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Orr Group applies analytical frameworks and ROI-based models developed in the for-profit world to help with nonprofit development. Website: [link].

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Just like many of the nonprofits and other loyal readers of Beth’s Blog , we at Social Media for Nonprofits are excited about the recent release of Beth Kanter’s new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change. 2 — Make Your Website Shine. 2 — Make Your Website Shine.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For non-finance folks, they may have heard the term “ internal controls ” in college or in a presentation from the accounting department. The next step in surviving these changes is to conduct a SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. What reporting capabilities do you have to make sense of the data?

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