Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

According to a recent study by Campaign Monitor , email marketing has an astonishing ROI of 4400%! A study by Edgerank Checker found that Facebook posts from nonprofit Pages only reached an average of 7.7% Especially when study after study shows that plain text-based emails perform the best. The numbers don’t lie!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets can be 280 characters, but studies have shown that tweets between 71 and 100 characters perform better than longer tweets. Too often nonprofits follow a small number of accounts on Twitter in order to control the chaos in their “Home” feed, but that’s the purpose of lists. Like mentions and replies.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Once again, you’ve amazed us! A: Of course!

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Segment, test and repeat. When people first join your list, hook them and engage them immediately.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right?

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our diversity and inclusion efforts also feed our mission toward advancing social good. That survey established a critical baseline that we can use to benchmark our progress in the future. Porter Novelli – 2021 Business and Social Justice Study. It allows us to “walk the talk”!

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study A visual version of the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). One of the things we wished for as we navigated the campaign: benchmarks. Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?" of it staying the same.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2017

In our 2017 M+R Benchmarks study , we found that on average, a nonprofit will reach just 8% of its fans with a post that isn’t promoted. . As your social media influencers engage with your content (especially when they click “Share”) it pops up in their friends’ news feeds. Enter the Earned Reach Average, or ERA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Ymca of Metro Chicago Facebook Case Study. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. The Importance of Benchmarking. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. “If groups had a lot of email subscribers, they tended to have lots of Facebook fans,&# said the study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes. Other than benchmarking against yourself over time, are there sub-sector averages that we can look at? Many feel the same as Craig Newmark. Respond here.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2008

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Each case study includes background information about the issue and the campaign, key learnings, benchmark numbers, and outcomes.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

Great news from a new study by M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN): Online giving is bigger than ever. And lest you think social media is a waste of time, the study showed that organizations’ annual social growth is also on the rise, with the average number of Facebook fans increasing 37% and Twitter followers increasing 46%.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. As the director of development of Girls Inc.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" However, a study by Convio provides some hope in the form of online donations.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It was the most effective thing we did in the whole campaign.” Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When you track your nonprofit administration spending, you will have several categories feeding into what is considered overhead, including management, general, and fundraising. After all, you can’t figure out the right balance for your organization if you don’t know what to categorize as a fundraising expense.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Benchmark average value of an email address All areas $7.86 How do you compare? Environmental $2.59

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2007

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

The 2017 M&R Nonprofit Benchmark Study found that for every 1000 email subscribers, organizations can expect to have 39 Instagram followers, and that orgs experienced on average a 101% Instagram follower growth in 2016. If desired, you can also share them as a post to your feed timeline, for even longer enjoyment.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

M+R Strategic Services released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ( with NTEN ) last week, and Allyson Kapin wrote up some top take-aways. Looks like Peter Campbell , via his TechCafeteria project, has set up a handy nptech feed aggregator to pull in nonprofit technology info from the web into one spot. Thanks, Peter!

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Feeding America has a national hunger study. The Alliance for Biking and Walking has a benchmark report about the levels of biking and walking in the US. For example, CREW –Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington just released a report about. how payday lenders have increased payments to lobbyists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn from nonprofits and other organizations that have shared their social media case studies. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions.

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2009

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 11, 2016

Not only do nonprofit executive directors need to report to the board and staff, they also have responsibility for their mission (conserving land, feeding kids, spaying pets, etc.). We’ve been studying giving for decades and there are some great benchmarks and measurements to consider. We’re not “making this up as we go along.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

A recent study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that 99 percent of nonprofit organizations collect feedback from the people they seek to help. In Urban Institute ’s work with Feeding America —a network of over 200 food banks across the country—they were careful to avoid collecting feedback in November and December.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Benchmark average value of an email address All areas $7.86 How do you compare? Environmental $2.59

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