Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Whether it’s how we raise our children, communicate in love and partnerships, support causes, or establish friendships and trust, Granger pinpoints the best ways to seize digital opportunities to make our lives better. It is filled with practical tips and lots of stories and useful for all nonprofit professionals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. 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? . Let your supporters know specifics. That which gets measured gets done!

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Am I interacting with them and supporting their work? It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. Want something free or very low cost?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Hanley Family Foundation supports charitable organizations engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other forms of substance use disorder (SUD). They support organizations whose primary focus is to help individuals to recover from SUD. . Areas served: US. Hanley Family Foundation. Areas served: US.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Hanley Family Foundation supports charitable organizations engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other forms of substance use disorder (SUD). They support organizations whose primary focus is to help individuals to recover from SUD. . Areas served: US. Hanley Family Foundation. Areas served: US.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. Pay attention to the “change&# in weekly numbers and measure it against activities or messages you were pushing that week. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Be ready to add new supporters to your donor database at any given time with a Quick Add feature in the main navigation of the app. You can also add new engagement activities of existing supporters to their constituent timelines. Then, assign new tasks to others or yourself so that you’re ready for the day ahead. Constituent search.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Professor of Management.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Recruiting new participants every year can take more effort than retaining existing supporters. Peer to Peer Fundraising: How Do You Measure Up? Number of participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. During lunch, we discussed the field of network building for social change - what's needed to build this field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API. asks Rich Reeder.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

And, trust leads to increased financial support. [ The flow creates continuous improvement and continuous analysis. Let’s break it down… Nonprofit Financial Stewardship ​Simply put, stewardship is nurturing, supporting, and taking care of something. Insights result from analysis and discussion.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . So, most nonprofit fundraising plans aren’t supported by data, but rather stem from inertia and intuition. Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

With training and support, this can be mitigated. Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. AnnieCannons gives human trafficking survivors the tools to support themselves and their family. AnnieCannons.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. to support our work. Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Ft. Name (a-z). State (A-Z). WHAT IF Conference. WHAT IF Conference. 10/24/2016.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

The trouble with social media thus far has been that it’s been difficult for practitioners to measure its efficacy. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. You can see the metrics in action in the chart below. Here are a few examples. Of course one of the biggest returns is brand visibility.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings. As a supporter of the Innocence Project, that makes me feel part of something bigger. I did policy reports, and analysis and research. I like to support people who are authentic like that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The event was called “ We Support Affordable Health Care ” and based on the decision it would have taken a celebratory tone or been a charge to renew commitment to the idea. Says Communications Director Christine Sinatra, “the invites spread like wildfire.” 6) Curate Visual and Other Content from Trusted Sources.

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