Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The nonprofit and education leaders I work with each have a different definition of “digital transformation.” Is the work happening efficiently? Myth #2: “Digital transformation creates extra work for employees.”. At that point, the team needed to improve its case management and fundraising work. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Secret #8.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. Donors from 100 different countries gave to Neon One users this year—GivingTuesday really is a global movement of generosity! When Do Donors Give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 83

Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Loaded with analysis tools, it also contains a video feature that lets you see exactly what problems exist that are making your site sluggish and quick tips for correcting any issues. It’s easy to use and intuitive and a great option for beginners wanting to test out their new site. WebPagetest. YSlow Browser Plugin.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

It’s a remarkably ineffective way of working for an industry built on numbers. . “We What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You should also do this with donors at different levels. Without this information, you’re flying blind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Are you working on your year-end campaign or building up a new seasonal campaign?Let I worked on one year in a campaign for several years that raised over $5 million in the month of December. In brief, to ask more than once and in different places. What is a multi-channel fundraising? And then what actually happened?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For one nonprofit we work with, individual donors who give between $1,000–$99,000 make up less than 1% of the overall donor base, but they contribute an amount that is equal to the entire small donor program. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. And it’s a big loss! What is the speed of upgrade? What is their lifetime value?

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. If you are responsible for working with data at your nonprofit, it probably one of many other responsibilities on your plate. So, where can you start to make a noticeable change in the way you work and life to become more healthy?

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their “Health and Well-being” grants will provide an opportunity for the applicant to choose from five different topics, one of which is for programs addressing mental and/or behavioral health conditions. The Endowment for Health works to improve health and reduce the burden of illness for the people of New Hampshire. Areas served: US.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Their “Health and Well-being” grants will provide an opportunity for the applicant to choose from five different topics, one of which is for programs addressing mental and/or behavioral health conditions. The Endowment for Health works to improve health and reduce the burden of illness for the people of New Hampshire. Areas served: US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Oftentimes with other applications, data needs to be prepped before it can be converted into visual form (such as a graph or chart), whether that means adding a column, combining data sets, inserting a new formula, or the like. Share your SAP Visual Intelligence works of art by attaching them as images to emails. Images: SAP.

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Data Chart Report Oracle 44

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Use different links on different sites to see what really gets people clicking through.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

25+ Fundraising Apps for Your Nonprofit to Consider Fundraising apps can be powerful tools for raising more for your mission, but each one is different and will provide different benefits to your organization. It helps your organization work smarter rather than harder. Let’s explore both kinds of apps in the next section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Notes and Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

At the Digital Forum Session at the IFCAsia, we did the Spectagram twice to help to identify different skill levels of participants and their organizations capacity levels. There are different approaches to assigning people to groups and facilitating small group discussions, but it is used to have the same facilitation method for each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. This reminds me of a similar technique I’ve used in face-to-face workshops over the years where you set up small groups to work at a flip chart and brainstorm ideas. ” What is Human Centered Design? Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a measurement mini-workshop for nonprofits based on my work at Packard Foundation and the ideas in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” at Compasspoint ‘s new offices in Oakland for a room full of nonprofits. What are the Indicators by which you will judge your progress?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

We had a range of participants at different levels and a room with fixed seats or what I call “University Lecture” style. While this was a little at odds with an interactive format, we made it work. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. “Look across rows versus columns, for example.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Poor Presentation. About the Author.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2016

Track Data Through a Flexible Chart of Accounts. Organizations are often juggling multiple projects based in different locations on various timelines. To effectively track data for internal and external use, your software needs to have a flexible chart of accounts. Nimble budget analysis. Nonprofit accounting is complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Wait for maturation? Short answer: too early to tell.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a nonprofit professional, you’re probably all too familiar with some of the many ways in which technology has completely changed how work gets done in our sector. With more people using your fundraising, management, or data tech for a wide variety of reasons, each team member has a completely different experience of your toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

So I tweeted Mari Smith who told me she had something in the works. I might also add that a Facebook Page will provide better analysis in terms of users, time online the time , demographics compared to a Facebook Group. As the chart above details, people who join Facebook Pages fall into three different profiles.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The difference between cloud-based and traditional software is that when we access the cloud, our computer or mobile device isn't doing the actual computing. The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. Benefit #2: Working from Anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Simple and relatively low cost is good.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). Work hard to win them over.

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