Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a new year and that means a new, comprehensive benchmark report on the performance of nonprofits using Luminate Online. The new Luminate Online Benchmark Report is a powerful asset that studies over 500 organizations and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. 2015 Charitable Giving Report.

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Benchmark Online Analytics Beginner 20

Care2

JULY 16, 2012

Thankfully, you can take advantage of great in-depth research and findings published in nonprofit reports. Here 11 nonprofit reports that are worth a look when you want to brush up on everything from nonprofit social media adoption, staffing, fundraising, and online engagement best practices.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

Because we survey organizations involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year, the information contained in the survey analysis reports (which are free) is current, and catches the tide changes and zeitgeist of grantseeking as they happen. You can click here to see past reports. The survey runs through 03/31/14.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve created this guide to nonprofit CRM options, through which you’ll review the basics of CRM software and a side-by-side comparison of the top solutions through the following points: Overview of CRM for Nonprofits. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Depending on the solution, features may include: Reporting automation.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. And boy, were there some outliers this year.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 3, 2023

According to the Giving USA 2023 Annual Report , individuals, as opposed to foundations, corporations, and bequests, gave 64% of the $499.33 As always, make sure you account for your organization’s unique history by taking any giving trends found in your donor database into consideration alongside this industry comparison.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Participate when the analysis and reporting contain benchmarks that allow you to compare your own organization’s performance with that of your colleagues. Mostly, though, it’s all about the benchmarks. What is your success rate in comparison with others in your mission focus/sector?

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Survey Voice Benchmark Comparison 52

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Blackbaud Benchmark Nonprofit Chart 87

Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. The study reported traffic decreased across 18 of 19 nonprofit verticals , with Canadian organizations being the exception. (It Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

advertising, surveys, reporting, and business analysis. That means that the information contained in the survey analysis report (which is free) is current, and catches the tide changes and zeitgeist of grantseeking as they happen. Ellen Mowrer is business development advisor for GrantStation. She works with.

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Survey Grant Comparison Analysis 56

Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

According to early results from GrantStation's Spring 2017 State of Grantseeking™ Report, 75 percent of those organizations that submitted just one grant application won an award. Another benchmark to consider when making applications is organizational age. That's compared to 36 percent in the spring 2017 report.).

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

That's why I was a little confounded when we first started using our new e-mail system, and it would spit out a report like this: An overall open rate of almost 33%? What our system reports – and I suspect others, as well – is an average of averages, or what I call an "Unweighted Open Rate" (as opposed to the traditional "True Open Rate").

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting?

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Neon CRM

JULY 19, 2023

1/4th of Annual Nonprofit Revenue is Raised in December Source: M+R Benchmarks According to the 2023 M+R Benchmarks Report , December giving accounts for roughly one fourth (26%) of annual nonprofit revenue. According to CCS Fundraising’s Philanthropic Landscape Report , 50% of U.S. Get the guide 2.

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Statistics Giving Fundraising Benchmark 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Knowing what work you need done and the quality of work you’d like to receive and set benchmarks to measure outcomes. Looking for people in your community to submit reports of littering so you can deploy volunteers for cleanup? Measuring Work. When measuring work, you need to start with a clear outline of the task at hand.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Why is it important to track fundraising benchmarks? Let’s look at this in comparison to some of the metrics discussed above. Set benchmarks that are realistic for your team. However, it’s also important to set benchmarks that are realistic for your team. Let’s explore this idea further. How is the metric measured?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? Methodology.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

Read the first post for an overview of the Dashboard and the second and third posts for a tour through some of the most useful reports around visitors & even more exciting reports about visitors. This may come in handy if monthly or yearly comparisons are made and people wonder why traffic dropped. Leave both profiles up.

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Analytics Google Profile Metrics 48

Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2023

The Best Time for Nonprofit Emails For our latest research report, The Nonprofit Email Report: Data-Backed Insights for Better Engagement , we analyzed 37,472 email campaigns (that’s 157,048,634 individual emails) and then broke down important benchmarks by list size. CDT and the average open rate for this time was 29.18%.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Vlog Video Social Media Resource 28

Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Those are just some of the findings The Nonprofit Email Report: Data-Backed Insights for Better Engagement. Want to learn more about the nonprofit email benchmarks that your organization should be using to measure success? Download the full report today! Customization Nonprofits have different metrics they need to monitor.

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Metrics Rate Nonprofit Social Media 52

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. The Health, Public?society renewed contracts.

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Collaboration Research Report Indiana 75

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Communication can take various forms, including email newsletters, annual reports, and social media updates. Impact reports: You can provide donors with regular impact reports that highlight the difference their contributions are making.

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Donor Management Guide Retention 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. I've been doing the ROI analysis openly on my blog for the past two years and the presentation uses a slightly more refined version of this benchmarking process. Secondary research reports. Benchmark studies. Communicating the results.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can also establish automated workflows to set follow-up and reporting tasks for your team members. These 30-minute, no-pressure sessions walk through all the systems features, from donor management, email, and donation pages to event and volunteer management, automated workflows, and reporting. We’ll see you there!

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Software Fundraising Oracle Structure 52

Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Neon One Tip: To help users get started with donor segmentation, Neon CRM comes with built-in donor segments for at-risk and lapsed donors in the “Saved Reports” section. By releasing annual impact reports, your nonprofit can more broadly reinforce how your work is creating positive change. Check it out!

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Raise Strategy Help Fundraising 98

Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

These are limitations of the data, self-reported from funders or gathered through tax reporting, and methodological trade-offs to take a global, cross-issue approach. [2]. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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Map Fund Taxonomy Analysis 98

Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2018

According to the most recent Fundraising Effectiveness Report , nonprofits claimed a 45.5% But we don’t recommend putting much stock into this type of comparison because it’s quite possible that some Q1 2017 donors will give again this year, but just haven’t yet. donor retention rate in 2017. made another gift during 2017. IN THE END….

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Retention Donor Rate Gift 34

sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. Over the five-year report period, the share of recurring donors increased at the median from 15% to 17%: In FY2020, 61% of all organizations experienced an increase in sustainers.

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Retention Gift Rate Conversation 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2 Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Policy Social Media International News 103

Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This year’s summit included 35 large nonprofit organizations that participate in our sustainer program benchmarking to review aggregate program performance, trends and challenges affecting sustainer giving. Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7 billion in FY2018.

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Trend Giving Retention Rate 30

sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. Technorati ???Authority???

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Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Look at week-over-week and month-over-month comparisons. Produce long-form, in-depth content like guides and reports. Here are some tips: Set up dashboard reports in Google Analytics to monitor key metrics like organic visits, landing pages, keyword rankings etc. Review reports regularly to spot trends.

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Websites Guide Impact Metrics 59

Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

And so I had to come up with ways that made it easier for me to meet my benchmarks, to be successful, and get the results I needed for the nonprofit I was working for at the time. Annual reports, this is the number one tool that I use in my virtual asks. Everything is in that annual report. So doing this for so long. Statistics.

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Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 114

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The emergence of new technology alone has led to increases in donor expectations on several fronts—from mission transparency and program reporting to organization access and donor responsiveness. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. Measure and report on your success.

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Analytics Data Analysis Metrics 33