DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we help nonprofit organizations use their technology for more effective fundraising and donor stewardship. One critical element of this area involves refining the nonprofit’s tech stack for more effective moves management. Effective moves management is built on the donor and gift lifecycle.

Effective 98

Effective Management Guide Fundraising 98

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Everyone running a membership organization wants to recruit some shiny new members. We’ll also be sharing the important metrics you need to keep an eye on to measure your performance. That’s a little over two workdays a week—plenty of time to interact with your organization. What is a Membership Engagement Strategy?

Strategy 98

Strategy Measure Social Media Metrics 98

Care2

JULY 6, 2023

Many charitable organizations experienced a worrying trend in 2022: A 10% dip in individual donations and a declining donor retention rate. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project documented just how many donors in 2021 didn’t return to give again in 2022! Read on for new research from M+R Benchmarks, Care2, NEON One, Tatango, and more!

Research 69

Research Trend Help Benchmark 69

Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

Benchmark 56

Benchmark Measure America Blackbaud 56

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Employee retention is critical for the health of any organization, particularly for nonprofits. High retention leads to better outcomes all around as the organization saves money and develops stronger performers internally. Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role.

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Retention Management Tips Nonprofit 89

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Jen Frazier , President at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive. A/B testing can help determine the most effective sending days and times for an organization’s unique supporter base.

Practice 235

Practice Fundraising Guide Channel 235

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 251

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. 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). Nearly 2/3 of organizations say their video budgets will stay the same or decline!

Benchmark 120

Benchmark Video Practice Measure 120

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Start with benchmark data. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages.

Analytics 126

Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

My colleagues, all experts, practitioners, and instigators share a passion for inspiring others to build great organizations for greater societal impact and increasing the expectation and adoption of high performance in the field. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. Social change is hard.

Measure 50

Measure Metrics Nonprofit Ratio 50

EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

from our friends at Double the Donation Major giving strategies play a major role in many nonprofit organizations’ fundraising success. And the larger your organization, the larger the gifts you can expect to receive⁠—that is, of course, when your team has a plan to cultivate and steward key donors.

Strategy 177

Strategy Giving Fundraising Gift 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

Measure 101

Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post. Measuring is how you decide which is which.

Social Media 88

Social Media Measure Media Social 88

Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

However, without a comprehensive baseline of the diversity represented within organizations, philanthropy can’t make good on these promises. Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid.

Demographics 110

Demographics Fund Practice Data 110

Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2023

Leadership ColLAB strategies for your association Leverage these can’t miss methods at your organization: 1. She spoke about the importance of keeping your association’s culture at the center of your mission and having it be your benchmark for building relationships at all organizational levels.

Associations 117

Associations Leadership Arlington Wisconsin 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Nonprofits quickly receive the data insights they need to track and measure success through the new Report Center. The button can be embedded into any third-party website as an effective way to collect donations immediately, without setting up a GoFundMe Charity account or campaign. 3) Advanced data reporting.

Charity 214

Charity United States New Zealand Canada 214

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.

Benchmark 95

Benchmark Network Learning API 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Data Analysis.

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Summary Social Media Measure Media 94

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With the recent pandemic, civil unrest and racism conversations front and center, nonprofit organizations are working overtime to serve communities deeply affected by these issues. On top of it all is the reality that the diversity needle has not moved much in board of directors’ positions at nonprofit organizations.

Help 96

Help Strategy San Diego Iowa 96

Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. We decided to develop a shared definition is for benchmarking only.

Data 58

Data Support Demographics Evaluation 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

Measure 50

Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

Measure 104

Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

Benchmark 60

Benchmark Facebook Report NTEN 60

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While most organizations cut their marketing budgets first when times are tough, those who “keep the lights on” typically reap the benefits. Benchmarking, forecasting, and determining how your organization fares with its supporters is difficult when there is a data gap. Below, a few of our agency’s top experts share their take.

Benefit 64

Benefit Marketing Change Time 64

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA ’s unique premise is that business leaders in any industry, any function, and at any level need the same core knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively manage and lead. For our book, forming a reading group with professional peers would be especially helpful, inside or outside the organization in which you work.

Skills 92

Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Once you’ve strategized each of these steps, you’ll be able to create a volunteer management process that allows you to continually recruit, engage, and retain effective volunteers. Identify the organizations in your community (if any) that are already working to solve this issue. Evaluate your volunteer program.

Volunteer 94

Volunteer Program Roles Training 94

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In the face of increased accountability pressures, nonprofits are searching for ways to demonstrate their effectiveness (Liket and Maas, 2015). Stakeholders should be asking how do we identify effective practices throughout the organization and how do we improve organizational effectiveness to achieve greater impact?

Practice 40

Practice Effective Impact Evaluation 40

NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. However, the benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used.

Rate 139

Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. Dataro has written a clear and effective post on calculating ROI for fundraising campaigns. Or how about your capital campaign?

ROI 73

ROI Campaign Gift Metrics 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

Social Media 96

Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Nonprofits encompass organizations of all sizes, varied organizational structures, unique missions, and a limitless range of fundraising priorities. Yet for all that may be different between organizations, shared fundraising challenges seem to endure, especially when it comes to identifying more opportunities for major gifts.

Data 71

Data Los Angeles Gift Model 71

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Boorstin shares that whether you’re a woman looking to rise in your organization or taking on a new leadership position, or a male leader looking to empower women in your organization this book is for you. I found in my reporting that in fact, the ways that women led were just as effective, and in some cases, even more so.

Leadership 67

Leadership Benchmark Story Structure 67

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

According to 2019 research by Meredith Kavanagh , nonprofit leaders believe that some of the top investment priorities for their organizations that year were more advanced technology (e.g. However, according to Yale Insights, when it comes to nonprofits, only 11% view their organizations’ approaches to digital as highly effective.

Impact 52

Impact Technology Arizona Channel 52

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

On average, we know that over 80% of a nonprofit’s total donations come from the top 12 donors to the organization. That might be why a giving officer’s average span to stay at a nonprofit organization is less than three years. They’ve been applying science to major gifts fundraising to help nonprofits raise funds more effectively.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

Participatory 88

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 88

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Boorstin shares that whether you’re a woman looking to rise in your organization or taking on a new leadership position, or a male leader looking to empower women in your organization this book is for you. I found in my reporting that in fact, the ways that women led were just as effective, and in some cases, even more so.

Learning 52

Learning Leadership Benchmark Story 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Data is such a buzzword these days that it has become almost meaningless, although according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary , data is "factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation." Here at GrantStation, we want your organization to succeed at grantseeking.

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Grant Data Develop Strategy 36