M+R

APRIL 24, 2024

Visit mrbenchmarks.com now to explore all the charts, analysis, insights, and more! This year, 225 wonderful nonprofits partners joined in the fun, contributing data on fundraising, advocacy, engagement, mobilization, and marketing. You can also join us for a live webinar today, April 24, from 1:00-2:30 ET. Sign up now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best?

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

The Importance of Transparency for Nonprofits Knowing where your money went—and having the reporting to confirm it—helps you make better data-driven decisions and build more trust with your funders. It also simplifies your account string, making your chart of accounts more streamlined and easier to understand.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Dynamic Gauge Charts in Dashboards (Beta). The dynamic gauge chart is now available to use report metrics and field values to respond dynamically to the displayed business metrics. For example, the gauge chart can display a subtotal of a subsidiary (i.e., Blog: Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

Once settled, we took deep dives into understanding how to collect, analyze, and visualize data to apply to better decision-making. The spreadsheet above is from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County for an action learning project that focused on measuring the results of the recently launched blog. Measurement'

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Consultant and nonprofit CFO Stephanie Skryzowski will guide you through effective strategies to help your leadership and board actually grasp your financial metrics.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog. It caught my eye because we’ve working on a chapter about how nonprofits can make the shift to a “data-driven culture. &#. He suggests a new term, “data informed.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

This finding is also different from another study that looked at how nonprofits were using data conducted by NTEN and Idealware, that found that while many nonprofits were collecting data, they were not using it for decision-making and improvement. The sample in the NTEN/Idealware study is larger and broader than the CEP study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething. How do we turn data into Insights? Know What Success Is. Neff (@daveiam) March 11, 2013.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

While I don’t have a crystal ball, I do have some association trends data that can help. Personalization – The study shows that Pros with poor member retention in the past year tend to report worse member data. Get a handle on your member data by keeping it updated, de-duplicating, and managing it in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. Try avoid fragmenting your data by having to scroll. So think about a series of data that tells the story. What do you need to compare the data to?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters? These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. Collecting and analyzing data can seem like a time consuming and daunting task that takes away from an organization’s day-to-day work fulfilling its mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. Step 4: Define your benchmarks.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. What charts or slides did the group focus on? Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* The Testing Whiteboard doesn’t provide some perfect, omniscient data. (As

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. Collecting and maintaining good data is key to this.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2023

By proactively working with your auditor, having consistent workflows that keep your data updated, and establishing clear expectations with your staff, you can make remote audits just another project on your list, instead of something to dread. Those people probably enjoy visiting the dentist and find reasons to go to the DMV as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

” More and more nonprofits are adding data visualization to compelling story telling to create amazing infographics as part their marketing tool kits. Infographics not only include pretty pictures or illustrations, but those visuals are summarizing some data to convey your key marketing message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In other organizations, those that are lucky enough to have M&E staff, there is a disconnect between measurement practices for programs and communications. It is important to think of measurement integrated into everything the organization does – I’ve called it being data-informed. Click to See Larger Version.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

This means identifying effective and capable tools to help you make strategic moves based on accurate, updated data. . Data-driven fundraising strategies are always the smartest move, so make sure you have the necessary constituent relationship management software (CRM) integrations and reporting tools. Gift range chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

GuideStar’s vision is to drive philanthropy by increasing nonprofit data collection, distribution, and innovation. This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Data is meaningless without context. It’s simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

And the latter is not about gathering data – it is about making sense of it and using it to continually improve. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. In early July, Facebook announced that it will include mobile data.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

From their website: “For over 60 years, fundraisers, nonprofit leaders, donors and volunteers, scholars, and other individuals who work in or with the charitable sector have counted onGiving USA to provide the most comprehensive charitable giving data available. No other source provides the context for annual giving like Giving USA.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Note from Beth: For those of you who have been following my blog for a long time, you know of my obsession with research reports, particularly social media research snippets. Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

Why else would everyone call her The Queen of Metrics! Part 2: Seven Tips To Help You Understand Your Data. The book includes access to Katie’s research papers, vendor selection charts, and much more. You also get access to Katie’s monthly Measurement Hours where you can ask Katie questions. But it isn’t.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Yesterday in part one " Measuring the Impact of Your Social Media Program " of this blog series, I discussed the importance of audience reach, how people see your key messages, and how to measure social media reach. On Facebook, once again, your Page Insights will provide you with data of sharing activity by your fans. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

I’m on a mission this year, with the publication of the book, to continue to evangelize about nonprofits should all become data nerds and embrace the joy of measurement. The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Despite these behaviors, a lot of digital marketing looks something like this: Let’s take a look at why this approach doesn’t work: First, it’s easy for content to get lost in the 2 million blog posts published every day. Data collected from Similarweb.com. Was the data not convincing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing. Some other metrics can be found here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. Nonprofit Technology analysis campaign fundraising Major Giving metrics prospect management prospecting reporting'

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. Learning and Metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. The first stage was to look at increases in metrics if all staff added social media tasks to their jobs. This gave them the confidence to invest in a social media staff person and they saw more results.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals. Benchmarks - Taking raw data and reporting in a comparable way.

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