Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

We’ve done the legwork and compiled the top ways Chat GPT and AI can help your team save resources, perform tasks, and raise more funds. ChatGPT may prompt you for more context, so providing as much detail as possible will help with the copywriting process and save you valuable time.

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Tools Fundraising Analytics Analysis 360

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Modern CRM reporting is crucial for several reasons, namely because the right reports will help you: Evaluate performance: Get a bird’s-eye view of your organization’s fundraising efficacy by analyzing key metrics like donation amounts, donor engagement, and campaign success. My Dad’s axiom rings true, “ you get what you pay for.”

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In the fast-paced world of online education, understanding the effectiveness and impact of learning programs is crucial for associations. By harnessing the power of learning analytics, decision-makers can gain valuable insights into learner behavior, course effectiveness, and overall program success. What are learners missing from you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

And yet SMART goals are so crucial in data analysis because they provide direction needed for inquiry. For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy. It is OK to make guesses because they can be vetted with further analysis and data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. With the year half way over, this is the perfect time to evaluate your progress so far. These types of changes can help you nail down an excellent fundraising strategy moving forward.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. It examines the tech you use and how effectively you use those tools. In that instance, a tech assessment would help you do so in an informed manner. Do you have effective integrations in place? Data: Is your data “clean?”

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. Also, be sure to set up more detailed reports for deeper analysis. Evaluate post-campaign data. How effective were your various marketing channels and efforts?

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Campaign Tips Online Fundraising 87

sgEngage

MAY 6, 2024

Here are a few simple steps to help you create a solid budget that helps your organization allocate resources effectively and makes your budgeting process easier. You prioritize programs and initiatives that help you achieve meaningful impact. That allows you to do more to fulfill your mission.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. AI tools for fundraising When it comes to AI for fundraising, there are many tools that can help you succeed in your mission.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization. It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission. The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. For our first project,? For our second project,?

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Donation Language Homeless Statistics 137

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? How closely should they track those changes? But first… What is impact management ?

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

As you may have heard, we’re building new Candid tools to help those working in the social sector to do good even more efficiently and effectively in a fast-changing world. It is critical to have a clear understanding of all phases of their work to create an effective solution. What problems are we trying to solve?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even without this research, you’ve likely intuited that an effective mission statement draws supporters and donors in and gets them excited about helping you achieve that mission. . An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. Study 1: How sad is your mission statement?

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Analysis Language Research Statistics 130

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

In this regard, funders have a unique opportunity to contribute to nonprofit excellence by providing mentorship, sponsorship, and professional development opportunities, thereby helping to elevate the overall capacity and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. Predictive Analytics : Evaluate historical data to build stronger future strategies, construct SWOT analysis, engage in scenario planning , and develop objective rationales for future initiatives. But you have options.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. Member-centricity is also a glue that can help people work with a common purpose. Help your people to develop interpersonal skills by encouraging networking and relationship building.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Pulling Existing Data.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analysis, chatbots , and automation have the power to increase fundraising capacity. That’s why we’ve compiled three essential tips to help your team prepare for AI fundraising : 1. To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

MarTech Ssacks, or Marketing Technology stacks, provide nonprofit teams with a vital way to create efficient and effective marketing efforts. While this list is great for starting the discussion, for a more detailed audit and analysis, enlist the support of Media Cause MarTech experts.

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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. Automate aspects of your member journey.

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Language Generation Analysis Data 59

Candid

APRIL 28, 2022

Starting a nonprofit organization can be an inspiring way to give back to your community and help those in need. A good place to start is with a needs analysis. Just as with a for-profit business, a business plan can help a nonprofit describe how it intends to achieve its mission in more specific detail.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. It helps us to adapt, adjust, and evolve amidst complexity. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue. Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

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. Conduct effective strategic planning. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits.

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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. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” What’s your story?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In the face of increased accountability pressures, nonprofits are searching for ways to demonstrate their effectiveness (Liket and Maas, 2015). Stakeholders should be asking how do we identify effective practices throughout the organization and how do we improve organizational effectiveness to achieve greater impact?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. What can data help your nonprofit achieve? What do we mean by “data?”.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations. The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

This post will help you understand all three components and how to integrate them into your organization. Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important.

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Integration Impact Practice Management 69

Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to effectively utilize this powerful resource: Open the Google Analytics Query Explorer at ga-dev-tools.google/query-explorer/. This guide will assist you in exploring the available options.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. For example, what messages most effectively drive donations in your email campaigns? 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign.

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 235

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gartner’s research focuses on how technology can help restore and strengthen an organization’s financial health. Here are the crucial things technology for nonprofit finance should be able to help us do: LEVERAGE SMART FUND ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST EFFECTIVE REVENUE SOURCES.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Partnering with a qualified agency with years of experience can help you manage these various parts and form a cohesive, high-quality final product. Evaluate peer organizations to identify your peers’ strengths and weaknesses, compare them to yours, and find opportunities to differentiate your organization. Research and exploration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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