Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised.

Metrics 42

Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics.

Hype 52

Hype Research Marketing Benchmark 52

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. Let’s say your organization raises $5 million through a campaign. Most organizations conduct a capital campaign every 10 or 15 or even 20 years.

ROI 75

ROI Campaign Gift Metrics 75

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

That survey established a critical baseline that we can use to benchmark our progress in the future. These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance. These metrics, that include D&I data, help investors evaluate companies based upon criteria broader than just mere numbers.

Government 98

Government Social Blackbaud Companies 98

sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

We see that organizations of all sizes rallied their employees to give and serve others in their local communities and around the world. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report. Approximately 51% of companies evaluated have a global giving and/or volunteering element to their program.

Disaster 96

Disaster Social North America Companies 96

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This means that a donor may have two or even three different people from the same organization soliciting them before they finally make a gift. All officers should have similar experiences across the organization and be aligned on how the work gets done. A fundraiser’s job is to raise money for the organization.

Develop 79

Develop Management Gift Proposal 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. At SXSW, I did a workshop with Carie Lewis and David Neff who assessed their organization’s measurement practices along the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly continuum. Click to See Larger Version.

Measure 103

Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

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. How do we know this? 79% of major gift data is never entered into the CRM.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

1 – Does your organization have a data management plan? 2 – When was the last time your organization cleaned your donor data? 3 – Is someone in your organization responsible for data quality? We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. Within the past 3 months = 30%. No = 67%.

Data 133

Data Management Rate Benchmark 133

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your fundraising strategy will build on your past successes and opportunities to help your organization grow year after year. A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. Offers accountability. Online fundraising.

Strategy 105

Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 105

NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. You can divide the key metrics into offensive and defensive variables.

Metrics 53

Metrics email Campaign Rate 53

Care2

MARCH 25, 2009

Allyson Kapin, Editor-In-Chief ‘Tis the season for benchmark studies. In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online.

Benchmark 31

Benchmark Convio Studies Marketing 31

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. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

Social Media 102

Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

In my experience, the biggest difference in the varying payback on a Care2 multi-channel donor acquisition campaign (or any online acquisition) tends to be the total number of fundraising appeals that an organization sends to its supporters. In short, more good emails = more revenue. Email marketing is mainly a numbers game.

email 77

email Fundraising Rate ROI 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Staff performance reviews incorporate how well the organization is doing on KPIs.

Results 95

Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

Awareness 100

Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Set Program Goals & Metrics. Clarify quantifiable outcomes or metrics that can be easily measured on a routine basis. If you want to go for extra credit, you can also do sector benchmarking with resources like B Analytics and CSR HUB. Start with the question, “what does success look like?” Report Out.

Measure 50

Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

Social Media 98

Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

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) Donors hate feeling like cash machines.”

Convio 31

Convio Benchmark Studies Social Media 31

Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. However, this metric doesn’t truly measure social media engagement.

Metrics 52

Metrics Rate Social Media Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

While the big names like The Red Cross and Make a Wish have the headlines and the brand recognition, most nonprofits are bootstrapped organizations filled with passionate workers and volunteers doing what they can with limited resources. The CRM is the single source of truth for the organization, tracking all engagement for each donor.

Marketing 193

Marketing Fundraising Test Nonprofit 193

Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2015

Evaluate your event data from the past 3 years or so. Fundraising performance metrics. Compare your performance to industry benchmarks. This study lets you benchmark your performance against other events in a similar category such as walks, runs, bike, and endurance events. Develop your own benchmarks for the coming year.

Benchmark 20

Benchmark eBook Registration Indiana 20

Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

With proper planning and preparation, a budget should be a reflection of the strategic, long-term plans for your organization, and should serve as an annual framework against which your organization can measure financial success and directional movement towards your goals. Step 2: Create an Annual Operating Plan by division.

Blackbaud 36

Blackbaud Team Management Lesson 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Get affiliated (trained/certified) (so that an emergency response organization can put you to work in a leadership position immediately in a time of disaster. Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. What does success look like?

Hurricane 97

Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. Maybe you haven’t quite narrowed down which metrics will be most important in the long run. It gives us license to experiment, knowing we will have hard facts to evaluate the results. Start where you are.

Measure 99

Measure Track Model Seattle 99

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Choosing the Best Nonprofit CRM for Your Organization. The first of three Blackbaud solutions on this list, Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT (RE NXT), is a robust fundraising and CRM system for mid-sized to large nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT. Blackbaud CRM.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR professionals are typically responsible for overseeing an organization’s CSR strategy, initiatives, and reporting, which makes access to a platform essential. They are critical in conveying the organization’s CSR efforts to the outside world, making them likely users.

Software 52

Software Business Guide Companies 52

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What steps should an organization take to audit their nonprofit website performance? So, it feels like “oh, this is what this organization is all about. Allison: It depends.

Design 35

Design Websites Practice Philadelphia 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Stated another way, organize and simplify. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

Goal 50

Goal ROI Wiki Metrics 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The culling, organizing, and assessment of your event data is where the real work happens, and where the real insights emerge. Understand the difference between metrics and analytics. Convio & Event 360 have written about how organizations are making the transition to analytics, and others are beginning to follow this example.

Marketing 55

Marketing Tips Online Analysis 55

M+R

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As with our annual Benchmarks Study , our goal here is to report on the largest dataset we can in order to provide useful averages and overall trends. This other digital revenue may have been coming in through organic sources, search, other online advertising, or people who simply typed in the URL and went directly to the donation form.

Fundraising 105

Fundraising Gift Analysis Channel 105

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

Stats 100

Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it. There are lots of reasons to track this important nonprofit metric, but most of them can be folded into two overarching themes. The other reason is that it can have an impact on how your donors perceive your organization. The event raises $12,000.

Ratio 52

Ratio Fundraising Metrics Raise 52

Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2024

But Giving Tuesday doesn’t have to be the only nonprofit giving day on your organization’s fundraising calendar. With the right fundraising software to design effective donation pages and a solid marketing plan, you can host a special giving day for your organization that’ll inspire your supporters to give.

Giving 52

Giving Tips Nonprofit Hosting 52

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

The times we’re in offer opportunities to demonstrate your effectiveness, relevance, and unique purpose in ways that weren’t previously accessible to organizations other than the largest nonprofits. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Invest in evaluation tools. It’s simply a tool.

Digital 97

Digital Marketing Fundraising Strategy 97

Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Jason Boley (JB): Our experience with clients and vendors is that going through a structured selection process better prepares the organization for a project quote by defining the scope of work, outlining the technology ecosystem of the organization, and identifying potential barriers to success. gift processing).

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Process Interview Phase Map 92