Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

Does it still reflect your mission, purpose, strategic goals, and the ways your audiences use the internet? As communications director Melissa Franqui explains, “Any communications department, not only ours, has to be continuously asking, is the site communicating our mission, our current work, and our values to our intended audiences?”.

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

That assumption was also backed by years of UCS’s email fundraising metrics consistently beating M+R benchmarks. If too little cultivation was a real problem, we’d have seen it show up in fundraising metrics, right? Well, in the last few years, email metrics did start to decline.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

Email marketing is the process of connecting to your organization’s audience via email. Having a clean and organized email account structure can be helpful when sending more tailored content to segmented audiences. Acquisition emails encourage movement down the marketing funnel, or as we like to call it, the funnel of engagement.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

There is so much expert advice out there about how much you should post, what types of content are the best, and how to reach new audiences. The answer: craft your own strategy that uses your data, is customized to your audience, and won’t overwhelm your team (or yourself). Set a time period for the test. This is your road map.

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 98

Media Cause

JULY 14, 2023

Digital marketing is a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes to reach their target audience and achieve their goals. This knowledge will guide you in tailoring your campaigns to resonate with your audience and create meaningful connections. Consider expanding beyond those platforms to test and reach a wider audience.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. Step 2: Define your audience Understanding your audience can make or break your communications campaign’s success. To test or preview your campaign, consider doing a soft launch first.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences. This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. Segment your audience on social media.

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Personal Test Demographics Analytics 101

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

Understand Your Audience. Take a look at those in your target audience. From there, identify and align variables like stories, voices, ask ladders, donation form appeals, and aesthetics that align best with each segment of your target audience. Testing isn’t just about answering one-off questions or settling a disagreement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.”

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Throughout the year, it’s important to conduct plenty of preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make sure your audience is eager to give when the big day arrives. Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI).

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Now is a great time to start A/B testing copy for subject lines and preheader text as often as you can. Use your UTMs.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Without an internal understanding of humanity, it’s hard to be audience-centered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Post consistent content that your audience loves and your social media will be successful. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. Facebook reach metrics will now include a combined number that accounts for both desktop and mobile reach. Is it that simple?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

If you find that your marketing efforts were misaligned with your audience, conduct more audience research to help understand your supporters better. Give your audience information that will help them identify with the individual featured in your story. Conduct A/B testing. Define the problem. Analyze your success.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

For example, is there an issue with or aspect of your current branding that needs to be addressed to better connect with the hearts and minds of your audience? As such, part of the research process should include conducting a survey to understand how connected your audience feels to your nonprofit’s brand right now.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Your goals could be to increase the number of donors acquired, see an improvement in your return on investment, see increased net revenue, or grow your acquisition audience. The key is to look at your data and see which metrics you want to improve. On that note, where do you start when it comes to acquisition goal setting?

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

When you use a multi-channel approach to marketing, you probably point your audience back to specific landing pages on your website. Keeping your website up-to-date and modern is essential to engage your audience and ensure they have everything they need to get involved with your mission. Your site doesn’t engage your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Start testing your outreach plans. Throughout the year, conduct preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make your audience eager to give when the big day arrives. Start testing your outreach plans. To expand your audience, consider how you can take a multi-channel marketing approach.

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Demographics Retention Donor Research 72

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Personalized Communication Ideally, your marketing efforts will reach vast audiences. Along with the need to grow your audience, you also need to ensure each supporter feels individually connected to your nonprofit. You can also create audience personas to help you plan future communications. Test your content.

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Marketing Support Demographics Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is at the heart of every grant you write and outreach letter you send and is the first metric you use to measure your impact year to year. Identifying your unique value and presenting it to your audience in a way that speaks directly to your ideal donors can be the #1 factor that moves the needle in your fundraising efforts.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. In terms of metrics, focus on engagement metrics (such as engagement rates or bounce rates), rather than vanity metrics (such as audience size or page views). Analyze with actionable data in mind.

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EveryAction

JUNE 3, 2016

Once again, we called on our Email Deliverability Specialist, Brett Schenker (that's literally his title) to examine data from email programs at over 50 national nonprofits of all shapes, sizes, and internet service providers to determine the benchmarks for successfully engaging audiences + soliciting donations through email. The reason?

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. For example, you might test different Giving Tuesday email strategies or affinity month themes to see if donors respond better to certain appeals. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Review your donor demographics.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Paid social is, in simple terms, paid advertising that takes place on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, etc with specific targetted audiences in mind. 2 Audience Engagement: Getting the hang of Social SEO is all about creating content that clicks with your audience.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective. You can also employ “drumbeat” advertising strategies that repeatedly expose audiences to your messaging. Test different calls-to-action and reduce friction in online giving.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long. Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. Our event this year was four days, which, in retrospect, is a lot of time to ask people to dedicate. How to Measure Success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

Combining anecdotes with metrics that illustrate the problem can invite donors to be a part of the solution. Saying one child received one meal one day is an excellent metric to share to invite prospects to help solve hunger. The flow of a compelling story is audience ? How to craft the story.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Whether you’re reaching out to build issue awareness, share important news, or raise money for your organization, incorporating these best practices into your email marketing campaigns can help your emails reach your target audiences and keep them engaged with your mission. . Test, and Test Again. Lead with Your Mission.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Without gathering this information, and without the biweekly strategy meeting to evaluate program management, including impact data, the organization would have missed a valuable opportunity to pivot and reach their target audience. As illustrated below, the process is never finished.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We all have diverse audiences, and we must make sure our web content can be consumed in a way that includes everyone, especially those we serve. Following them has allowed my work to resonate with a larger audience and honors the mission of the organizations I’m partnering with. . Markup Validation Service.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Whether it’s information taken from your online donation forms or metrics on past campaigns, your fundraising data can clue you into which supporters are likely to give and do wonders for your donor communication strategy. The types of events someone registers for and their involvement in the event are also key metrics to note.

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Communication Donor Data Guide 98

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important to note that your team should always review ChatGPT’s output to ensure it reflects your brand voice and gives it a human touch that your audience wants to engage with. Influencer marketing can be a valuable tool to spread awareness about your nonprofit and your event to new audiences who otherwise might not have known about it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can set up the posting times by looking at your analytics to see which are the best times to reach your audience. Ideally, it’s good to test tools around scheduling, campaign management, image and video editing to find what works best for your organization. 5) Pick the right tools. 6) Plan your campaigns.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

We helped Pathfinder leverage advocacy to great effect, connecting their audience to issues that resonate — and driving considerable growth in their individual giving program. Just consider a recent Pathfinder campaign in which we asked their audience to take an advocacy action for International Women’s Day. Action Center.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ensure you have access to accurate email metrics including click, action, and conversion tracking so that you can determine the success of content, messages, and segmentation. Expand your use of email testing to better understand your engaged constituents and determine what interests your audience enough to take an action.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your marketing plan allows you to connect with a wider audience and inform them of involvement opportunities. Pursuing a multichannel marketing strategy using a variety of channels, from social media and email to direct mail, will allow you to expand your reach and promote your cause to the widest possible audience. Average gift size.

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