Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Major donors are vital to any nonprofit fundraising strategy and it’s critical to keep track of major donor information so you can identify the right people for the right campaigns. 4) Text and Sentiment Analysis Text and sentiment analysis is the process of identifying and analyzing information from text.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets. Today, we refer to it as the “Foundation 1000”, and it is often used to look at historical grantmaking trends. Analysis tip: The increased size of Candid’s grants data during the period from 2013-2015 shouldn’t be conflated with an increase in giving by donors.

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

So here’s your action item: If your organization hasn’t already, save any existing UA data before this date for historical tracking! You may also want to discuss which KPIs are important for your organization to track year over year and save any relevant data so you can continue to compare those KPIs to historical performance.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Luckily, there are plenty of free social listening tools available that can help you track your brand, monitor your competition, and understand what people are saying about your cause. Social listening is the process of tracking online conversations in order to better understand what people are saying about a given topic.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To grow your education business, you need to take advantage of the sophisticated metrics now available through modern data analytics – trends, behaviors, preferences, popularity, geography and much more. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Fundraising software, like DonorPerfect, can help you track these figures making it easy to determine your return on investment (ROI). This solicitation analysis report is a great report to showcase your ROI as it takes into account how many people were solicited, associated expenses, and the amount raised through the effort.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

private and community foundations to learn more about giving trends. Here are four things we learned about GOS grantmaking trends among funders right now. Here are four things we learned about GOS grantmaking trends among funders right now. Others were unable to provide even an estimate since they don’t track GOS grants.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Because engagement is critical to retaining members, many associations are using a member engagement score to track and build loyalty. In case you aren’t familiar with a member engagement score, here’s a quick overview: it’s an analysis to assess member and customer behavior over a certain period of time (we recommend 3 years).

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Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

Generally, the rule for online surveys is to use a quantitative tool that collects “hard” data for analysis. Know what you want to track and why you are tracking it. Trends are identified over time, so don’t survey once and wait seven years to do it again. But, “less is more.” If you can create a shorter tool, do it.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track. Amplitude is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to track, measure, and analyze their data.

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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. Key reporting features The most impactful reports encompass a variety of aspects, from donation trends to donor retention. Sounds ideal, right?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

We inform them that we are tracking a particular crisis and invite them to send us information about their grants related to the crisis. Below, we outline some of the most important things to know about this data—especially for journalists, researchers, and others seeking to leverage real-time data to identify funding trends. .

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But, what if you’re the kind of fundraiser who is expected to complete your annual giving program “off the side of your desk,” with no fancy agency to guide you on the latest trends, no idea what your donors really respond to, no current data segmentation strategy to contend with? You might even have another job to do in its entirety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Can the development office customize workflows and notifications when a donor is lapsing to help you determine the root cause and how to turn the trend around? 3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Analyzing your nonprofit’s data and industry trends can uncover insights about: Existing donors. Conduct research about your organization’s specific market, working to identify marketwide consumer and technology trends. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Track trends. The market landscape.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder.

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Tear down walls (literally and figuratively)​ Embrace a continuous process​ The Erosion of Confidence Sharon Rice,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our resident trend watcher. If you track current events, Sharon advised, you are aware of the erosion of public confidence across a spectrum of institutions.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But if not, your fundraising solution should include some type of data insights, like wealth ratings, next ask amounts, or giving trends. I like to combine this with a three-year giving history to see if there are prospects who are trending up or down in terms of their gift size. . Look at macro trends. .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using data from The Blackbaud Index , we are able to provide the first insights into fundraising trends for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013. Tracking more than $13 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. Overall Giving Trends.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Recruit Volunteers to Help Social media has many moving parts including strategy, content creation, community engagement, and analysis. Do Research on Social Media Trends The nonprofit community is a tight-knit group that provides a lot of insight. It is a win-win. allow them to feel involved) Engage with daily comments and posts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: To avoid this mistake, organizations must develop robust systems for tracking and reporting on restricted versus unrestricted funds. Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

This isn’t surprising when you consider the recent historical trends in funding for these organizations, which have increased continuously—with a notable dip in 2013 and a peak of $49 million in 2017. We then reviewed the largest 1,000 organizations by revenue size and verified them for accuracy for this analysis. million to $35.6

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But it also has key limits when it comes to parsing large volumes of data, analyzing trends over time, or supporting complex queries across multiple entities and engagement points. More detailed change tracking can be supported via Change Data Capture, allowing you to construct a history of crucial data points for more longitudinal analysis.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 29, 2023

Long hours spent manually entering data, reconciling amounts, tracking campaigns, and acknowledging donations can be laborious and fraught with the possibility of errors. From tracking donations to analyzing donor behavior, all information is consolidated in a centralized database. This is where fundraising software truly shines.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. Understand individual patient health within the context of population health trends. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It is the only large-scale analysis of its kind based entirely on data reported to the IRS and continues to be the most comprehensive nonprofit compensation study available. . This year’s report found that most of the trends observed in 2018 continued in 2019, including steady growth in median executive compensation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. State of AI in 2018 Report: The AI NOW Institute , which is affiliated with New York University and is home to respected AI researchers with Google and Microsoft, released a report describing the state of AI in 2018 that highlights some worrying trends.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 3, 2022

From helping you create and manage a modern membership experience to supporting order processing, event management, and data analysis, Nimble AMS helps your entire organization. . It’s a modern association management software (AMS) system built on the leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce.

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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

Tracking your website’s activity with Google has just gotten easier. You may have not heard, but Google has officially rolled out Google Analytics 4, a new kind of tracking property. Developers are already preparing to use machine learning modeling to support various modes of analysis. The Benefits for Your Nonprofit.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How closely should they track those changes? How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? This process was made possible by leveraging Salesforce technology to automatically collect impact metrics and visualize them in dashboards to highlight trends and results. About the Author. Mélodie Kinet.

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Classy

MAY 6, 2021

Specifically, this change requires that apps in the App Store provide a prompt to iOS 14 users if they’re doing any “tracking” activity. Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework prohibits certain data collection and sharing unless people opt in to tracking on iOS 14 devices via the prompt. Tracking Transparency.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

This year’s annual M+R Benchmarks Study includes front-page news, long-form analysis, mild-mannered reporting, and even a crossword puzzle all about the newest news and topical trends affecting nonprofit digital marketing, advocacy, and fundraising. . Bring your questions about Benchmarks and ads! Register here.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Throughout the 3-day conference, industry experts, customers, and partners participating in the higher education track shared what the higher ed landscape looks like today, challenges, new opportunities, digital transformation, and more. . Industry Research & Trends . Trends in Talent Management .

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Overlooking important trends. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. Overlooking important trends. Start by doing social media research to find the right platform for your organization and consider those most trending among other nonprofits, including: .

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With this object, institutions can now better track what achievements their populations are garnering, whether that be for diplomas, degrees, or certifications. This new feature will help better track the individual’s journey from prospect to student to alumni. This trend carries over to applying to programs in Higher Education.

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Education Student Application Retention 59

Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

Measuring success : By using donor personas to segment their donor database and track their engagement and giving history, non-profit organizations can measure the success of their fundraising campaigns and make data-driven decisions. Creating donor personas is a process that involves research, data analysis, and collaboration.

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