Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 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. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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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. . Then we recorded key metrics from their IRS Form 990s from 2016-2018. I hope this helps you when thinking about your mission statement!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. Impact management helps nonprofit teams collect and use impact data to make informed decisions about their programs. Market forces. Field (i.e.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

When evaluating CRM software for your nonprofit, you need to look for these five key differentiators: 1) Importance of Platform. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? There is no shortage of CRM’s in the market that sell to nonprofit organizations.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. nonprofits through Candid’s nonprofit profiles. Source: Candid, 2023.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Is it possible that your community has doubts about the organization’s credibility? You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?”

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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 do we mean by “data?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Photo by Dwinton.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. While this post focuses on donor reports, see this link to learn more about reports on volunteer activities. Sounds ideal, right?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. Check your metrics, focusing on overall numbers and growth. What’s working?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Do you know what topics people care about? Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . You identify key metrics by which you’ll determine if your programs are successful.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you invest in the stock market, you’re probably looking for a return on your investment, and you almost certainly think about that return in financial terms. Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

Companies large and small are investing in purpose and social responsibility programs: Our report includes an analysis of employee engagement trends across companies with 0 – 100,000+ employees. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report. Join us for an upcoming webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

For the past 11 years, this study has gathered comparative metrics from nonprofits on email, social media, social advertising, fundraising, and web engagement. There is a quite a lot of data as well as useful analysis from M&R. For details about, see the digital ads part of the study.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Typically, this involves educating them about your cause or issue and highlighting the work you do. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. the timing of their donation)?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. When we talk about breaking down silos, it’s not just between platforms, but also between departments or teams within your organization. Too many manual processes to get what you need.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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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. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 4: Media Measurement Requires Quantity and Quality : This principle is about measuring both quantative and qualitative information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. My colleague, blogger Michele Martin has this well-researched deck with many more examples of methods for doing a process evaluation and reflective practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m thrilled to take the opportunity to learn more about how nonprofit causes can embrace the principles of the lean start up movement. The Lean Start Up approach has appealed to me from the first time I heard about it.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

If you haven’t evaluated your CRM or cleaned up your data recently, doing so can make a major difference in your capability to engage donors. Now that you have multiple data collection and analysis tools in place, it’s time to use that data to improve your outreach through segmentation. Segment your email lists.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth. The timing was fortuitous," said Sandeen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. In addition to weekly check-ins, the dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Better data analysis, linking it to decisions.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth.

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Everyaction

MAY 30, 2018

Because of these principles, the process of evaluating and deciding on investments such as technology tools can be difficult for many nonprofits, because it requires a complicated process of weighing short term costs with long term benefits, while keeping multiple stakeholders happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

What we can learn about nonprofit results from Platinum Seal holders . Questions about the nonprofit sector’s impact and effectiveness abound—and are inordinately hard to answer. Organizations have shared more than 43,000 metrics, which demonstrate how nonprofits measure the difference they make in the world. .

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

We’ve done our research and heard what nonprofit professionals have to say about matching gift software. Reporting ⁠— Look for software that provides detailed insights into matching gift progress, trends, and other relevant metrics. Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. When most people think about reporting in the Learning Industry, they think about ROI justification. Baseball and your Learning Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.” ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement. I was curious so I asked Mario Marino who wrote the book, Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes , about this issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. For the past month-and-a-half, I’ve been working organizing our data collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination efforts. He thinks the business world is moving in the direction of more data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Urges nonprofits to focus on sharing and using basic information about who they are, what they’re doing and what’s happening, before tackling big data. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Do you need sentiment analysis? Harvard Business Review, March 2013.

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