M+R

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The deadline to join the 2023 Benchmarks Study is THIS Friday, December 2. The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a tasty fusion of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. We hope you’ll join us and participate in our upcoming 2023 M+R Benchmarks. And reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com if you have any questions!

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M+R

APRIL 27, 2022

Pack your bags, lock your tray table, and fasten your seatbelt: the 2022 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for takeoff. We’ve put a year’s worth of data from 187 amazing nonprofit partners through the X-ray machine, and we’re ready to take you on a tour of digital ads, social media, email, web traffic, and more. .

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M+R

APRIL 11, 2022

Prepare for takeoff: The 2022 M+R Benchmarks Study lands on Wednesday, April 27. It’s your comprehensive road map for nonprofit digital strategy, making stops for email, digital ads, social media, fundraising, tickets and membership, and web performance. . Read time: 1 minute. Sign up for the webinar now. .

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. We’d like to invite you to come along by participating in our upcoming 2022 M+R Benchmarks. . The window to sign up as a Benchmarks participant is open NOW. Related Links: Benchmarks UK is here!

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M+R

APRIL 29, 2021

There’s no wrong way to dig into our annual Benchmarks Study, covering digital programs from marketing to fundraising to advocacy. Others prefer a sense of community and the chance to ask questions, and a few hundred of them joined us for a Benchmarks webinar yesterday. . 2020 M+R Benchmarks Study—A Data Odyssey: The Recording.

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M+R

APRIL 26, 2022

Prepare for takeoff: The 2022 M+R Benchmarks Study lands on Wednesday, April 27. It’s your comprehensive road map for nonprofit digital strategy, making stops for email, digital ads, social media, fundraising, tickets and membership, and web performance. . Read time: 1 minute. Sign up for the webinar now. .

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M+R

APRIL 11, 2023

READ TIME: 1 minute The Benchmarks team is busy in the kitchen, cooking up another edition of super useful digital nonprofit data. We’ll cover digital ads, messaging, social media, fundraising, web performance, tickets and membership—even introducing a few new metrics and tasty tidbits along the way. RSVP via Zoom here. p.s. UK groups!

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

We are excited to report that the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for you. Thanks to contributions from 220 amazing nonprofit participants, this year’s Benchmarks Study covers detailed data including digital ads, social media, email, web traffic, mobile messaging, and more. . 2021 Benchmarks UK FAQ.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to the 2022 M+R Benchmarks Report , nonprofits pay an average of $3.31 3) Embedded opt-ins and donation forms in blog and news content. A growing trend is to add large, visually prominent CTAs to the body of blog posts and news articles approximately halfway down the page. to secure a lead [i.e.,

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M+R

APRIL 19, 2023

Don’t forget to make your reservations for our Benchmarks launch events if you haven’t already. READ TIME: 1 minute The Benchmarks team is busy in the kitchen, cooking up another edition of super useful digital nonprofit data. April 27, 2023, ONLINE Benchmarks Webinar. Amuse Bouche: Benchmarks is served up next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2020

Benchmarks Study 2020 :: Download. 2019 Email Deliverability Benchmarks Study :: Download. Published by the Lily Family School of Philanthropy. 2020 Nonprofit Trends Report :: Download. Published by Salesforce. Published by M+R. 2019 Charitable Giving Report :: Download. Published by the Blackbaud Institute. Published by EveryAction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Like all social media today, organic reach is very low. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In past blogs we’ve talked seemingly ad nausea about how technology, donation forms, and social media can support a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. Social media in particular is where nonprofits are turning to get their mission talked about, with the ultimate goal of driving more donations to that mission. Like our blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2023

Here’s where you can find M+R people this summer: PMDMC Benchmarks Webinar June 7, 1–2pm ET Thought Benchmarks season was over? Get the low-down on how the public media sector fared in this year’s Benchmarks in this virtual webinar co-hosted with PMDMC. Are you conferencing this summer too? Register here. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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M+R

MARCH 11, 2024

Guess who will be releasing a Benchmarks study on April 24? The annual M+R Benchmarks Study will once again explore the labyrinth of nonprofit digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing metrics. Do not pass go, do not collect $200 — go directly to mrbenchmarks.com on April 24 to download the full 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2021

Based on the survey responses from the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey , the 2021 Open Data Project provides benchmarks for how NGOs use website and email communications, online fundraising tools, social media, and productivity and security software. Media organizations can use the data in articles and research projects.

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NetWits

JANUARY 14, 2011

The survey was focused on the for-profit world (don’t leave yet) and I know you as a reader of this blog are interested in the non-profit space, but I believe there’s a lot of insight we can learn from and apply to our sector. Do you plan on increasing your budget for social media efforts in 2011?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy. Prominently feature a call-to-give, an email newsletter opt-in, and a call-to-follow on social media on your landing page. Promote your landing page each quarter on social media for one month. M+R Benchmarks Report. Email #1 ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. 38% regularly publish a blog. 38% regularly publish a blog. 52% have used social media to report live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

This is the third post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me). How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. See3, YouTube and Edelman have released a new report and guide for nonprofits about using video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

For the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report, we are seeking partners that are nonprofit organizations, service providers, and/or media outlets who are willing to promote the online survey via email and on social media. Example 2: You are a media outlet in South Africa. Example 3: You are a crowdfunding website in Brazil.

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M+R

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a tasty fusion of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. We hope you’ll join us and participate in our upcoming 2023 M+R Benchmarks. Each edition of M+R Benchmarks is only as good as our ingredients — the more nonprofits who sign up, the more reliable and thorough the final study will be.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Due to the decline in reach on social media, nonprofits should prioritize email communications and fundraising in 2018 [ Benchmarks for Success ]. Live Reporting Using Social Media. Advanced social media managers will repackage the stream into blog, email, and social media content. billion by 2020.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

Data from this year’s Benchmarks made it clear that TikTok is being used by many nonprofits—30% of Benchmarks participants were active on the platform in 2022. We know that hopping on a social media trend can increase engagement no matter the platform. Samantha Litchford is a Social Media Account Executive at M+R.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Analytics tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. How To Use Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Practice. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I launched a Facebook Fan Page for my blog over the summer shortly after Facebook announced vanity urls. I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. Media Consumption: Total photo views, audio plays, and video plays for the content you have uploaded to your Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. How do you analyze your social media data? Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2016

One of the primary goal of this research was to provide a set of online technology benchmarks for NGOs worldwide. Benchmarks by continent are detailed in the report , but the global findings also serve as realistic, achievable online technology benchmarks for NGOs worldwide that currently utilize the Internet on a regular basis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

So thanks for your great advice back then and the fantastic advice you still provide through your awesome blog. I wrote about it in Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : Communities begin to grow exponentially when they reach 5,000 members. And today we hit 100,000 likes/fans. And it’s true.

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NetWits

JANUARY 27, 2011

There’s always great information in the newsletter, but this time around I’m particularly excited because the focus is social networking for non-profits (something that, if you read this blog regularly, you know I’m very passionate about) and the 2011 Social Networking Survey. First, go take this years survey.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Does senior leadership at your organization ask “why can’t we raise money on social media? You don''t have access to every news outlet, generating millions of dollars worth of earned media, or the funds to spend millions of dollars on advertising and marketing. 72% of nonprofits have no dedicated social media staff.

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