ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. In the field of social network analysis, these are called "structural holes."

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Steps in the Direct Mail Fundraising Process Designing a direct mail fundraising campaign involves many moving parts, from conducting intensive donor research to enlisting marketing strategists who will develop messaging frameworks and concepts. Research and exploration. Research and exploration. The market landscape.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

R ead up on the latest research. Read up on the latest research. It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. S elf-care prioritization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. Natural-language processing (NLP) refers to the capability of AI to understand the text and the spoken word. Sentiment analysis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. These data sources include (but are not limited to) the IRS, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Foundation Center, the S&P 500 Index, historical trends in itemized giving, and personal income tax rates. in Residence.

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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. Using those guiding questions you are hoping to answer, you’ll first work to first pull the relevant data points out of the data sources you have, that’s what’s referred to as extracting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

We were all there thanks to the efforts of Drew Conway, Jake Porway, and Craig Barowsky (Data without Borders’s founders) who had the crazy idea of bringing together well-intentioned data analysts and non-profits with data in need of analysis. Stop and frisk” is the common name used to reference police stopping a pedestrian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. The algorithms also use predictive analysis to make recommendations on future investment in research.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

Psychographic information : This refers to your donor’s personality traits, values, interests, beliefs, motivations, and behaviors. Creating donor personas is a process that involves research, data analysis, and collaboration. How are donor personas usually created?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. The questions I am referring to are not the questions of data gathering alone.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

If so, then your organization can probably benefit from conducting market research. Before these assumptions are baked into choices being made or considered, get access to accurate information using market research : who are your constituents and what are their attitudes, preferences, satisfaction levels, and needs? Look it up.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors. Cross-reference your words with a thesaurus. Choosing the word “achieve” implies that you are consistently solving tangible goals, whereas “determine” means that you are making decisions through analysis or research.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Workplace giving software can refer to a variety of technologies, so let’s get started by defining it and setting the parameters of this guide. Competitors analysis. Encourage donors to research similar companies to their employers that have workplace giving programs. Check out this complete guide to continue your research.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. References: Bryant, W. Lili Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. ASU School of Community. Jeon-Slaughter, H.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! This is a very interesting topic, Pat, I would love to see more research on this.

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Care2

JANUARY 8, 2013

I collect hundreds of nonprofit email messages every year for use in research projects and to keep tabs on what different techniques organizations are using. Last year I decided to unlock the email vault and do some analysis on "80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising" from 2011. I have an email hoarding problem.

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2012

The report further noted, “87% of the nonprofits in this analysis had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more during 2011.”. Certainly not all but, as the research indicates, definitely many. . — Larger and larger gifts are being given online. The question for me is, “Is this major gifts fundraising ?” Two Questions for You.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation. Research top providers. Seek references from other nonprofit organizations that have successfully implemented the same data warehouse solution.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

In order to understand the incidence and success of formal nonprofit collaborations , The Bridgespan Group and The Lodestar Foundation collaborated in a 2014 research study. The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Because tools change so quickly refer to this generative AI tool resource. Write up a SWOT analysis about a new product or service with a particular consideration Prompt: Perform a SWOT analysis for a new {product/service} considering {specific details/considerations}.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

A reference to dental hygiene shows up on both lists, but on "Things we forget," the response is "brush the teefres" whereas on "Things I forget," the response is "brush my teeth." This is not earth-shattering, and there is definitely overlap on the two lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. The syllabus includes: An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A recruitment campaign is only as successful as its strategy and research. The analysis you do at the beginning of every project is going to be critical to its success. millennial research. , But you don’t need to make a company sales pitch at events – candidates will do their own research if they’re interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat, moderated by Kami Huyse, and included RWJF staff Debra Joy Perez (@djoyperez), assistant vice president, Research and Evaluation, and Tina Kauh (@tinakauh), program officer, Research and Evaluation, covered some stimulating questions. NodeXL and Marc Smith. ” These are arranged in military style in G3.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Social media these days is more and more useful for doing research on funders. Many libraries are part of the Foundation Center Funding Information Network and have core collections of Foundation Center reference materials on finding grant funding. It provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The study talks about the future and what the most desirable life skills for young people will be in 20/20: Among those they listed are: Public problem-solving through cooperative work (sometimes referred to as crowd-sourcing solutions or using collective intelligence). Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2022

Audits require deep financial analysis and when supporters understand that this took place, they’ll also recognize that your nonprofit takes accounting practices seriously. Research potential auditing firms by using search engines and asking for recommendations from your accountant and other similar nonprofits in your community.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Your major gift officers conduct extensive prospect research, spend months carefully stewarding these prospects, and eventually approach the prospect with a large gift ask that’s been hand-tailored based on the relationship. Referrals: This includes any major gift prospects that are referred to your organization for further contact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

These costs, referred to as “indirect” expenses, “general and administrative (G&A)” costs or “overhead,” include such outlays as salaries and employer related expenses, utilities, rent, computers, and information technology (IT). Nonprofit Research Collaborative (2012). posted by Anna Midkiff Comptroller, Critical Path Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He gave a brief reflection with how is strategic consulting to nonprofits practice has changed over the many decades he has been in service to the field. ”It used to be that nonprofits developed five-year plans – we used to refer to as “The Stalin Approach.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The presenters also rightly noted a need within the social sector to shift the culture of philanthropy to adjust to more fluid planning processes based on general goals but with flexibility in programming and metrics that emerge through analysis rather than being known from the start.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To ensure this change is a positive one, dedicate time to researching and assessing each potential consultant. Research top providers. Analytics: Learn more about your nonprofit’s operations with web analytics, data analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and reporting and visualizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Then I started to get emails from respected colleagues and a few hours later I saw references all over my friends Facebook newsfeeds and on Twitter. There is more analysis of the problems over simplification like this cogent analysis from Ethan Zuckerman. The storytelling was engaging and compelling.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Referring back to my previous blog in July , I am completing a series that outlines the various levels of prospect management we encounter with our clients. Please refer to my Part 3 July blog on some basic data your system should track and what your gift officers should report on during these meetings.

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