Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Prepare your association for success in 2024 by reading our blog. You’ll discover the top membership trends of 2024. 5 membership trends to prepare your association for success in 2024 Get ready to hit your membership goals and exceed expectations. Check out our top five membership trends for 2024: 1.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

The post Trends in Grantmaking: Putting Equitable Grantmaking into Practice first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Louisa Robinson, Business Analyst for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation , shared during a webinar on Modern Grantmaking that they started making a concerted effort to collect diversity information from their grantees in 2020.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

In order to track trends year-over-year, IAEE will repeat many of the same questions, adding in three or four additional questions about programs or services the team is testing. When you’re looking to identify trends and areas to improve member engagement at your association, it can feel overwhelming.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space. When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics. We look forward to this report every year.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. We tie our videos to our blog posts. This can mean creating a video that gets expanded into a blog or shortening a blog into a video script. We later expanded it into a blog post.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Focus on Target Audiences. Focus on Influence.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

If you are not sure which metrics are essential or how to convert your data into something stakeholders can grasp and absorb, start simply by setting clear goals. Learn more: Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You Measuring Outcomes Outcome metrics are powerful, necessary tools for demonstrating transparency and accountability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2024

These decreases continue the post-COVID trends, leaving many fundraisers to wonder when they’ll bottom out. The new FEP report compares overall philanthropic giving trends in 2022 and 2023. We’re sharing noteworthy takeaways and trends, as well as five strategies to focus on. Still, it’s a concerning trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees. Other collaboratives may pursue broader goals that don’t lend themselves to common strategies and metrics, such as reducing intergenerational poverty.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. This blog post only scratches the surface of effective data management in grantmaking. Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information. Ready to learn more?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Your point of contact understands the importance of monitoring patient traffic trends, developing economies of scale, and identifying grants that will shore up revenue streams. Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track. Identify just one person to communicate with the software vendor.

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Media Cause

JUNE 2, 2024

Most are drawn to colors, design, and graphic elements before they know what a post, blog, or resource is about. Stay up to date with trends in design and social media trends , and learn how to integrate those elements into your content while staying true to your brand guidelines. Humans are drawn to human faces.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. If you are looking for a paid tool, Sysomos is a decent online media and social media analytics system that captures organizational mentions in online media and blogs, and on social media networks.

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2013

Here’s some great content metrics that strategist Jay Baer highlighted on his blog (thanks for the recommendation Beth Kanter ) which nonprofits can utilize. Do the same articles, blog posts, fact sheets, generate the most traffic every month? How are people consuming your content? What video’s get the most views?

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can use this combination of data to analyze trends, gauge what members value, predict their behaviors, and take action. Find out more about overcoming your fear of dirty data in our previous blog post. For example, if 80% of your data is good quality, you can still identify insightful trends with analytics.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Reduced reporting requirements and shared metric development with grantee partners: Evaluation should help us understand what’s not working , not just what is, and it should be useful for the grantee partner as well as HF. If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics. Educate your members to be discerning consumers of information: webinars, blog posts, podcasts. Track trends in your industry. Educate your members to be discerning consumers of information: webinars, blog posts, podcasts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. There are rage tweeters and arrogant trolls that occasionally trend to the top. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Monitor metrics such as engagement rates, content reach, and donor response. The AI can then suggest channels that resonate with your goals, considering trends and audience preferences. This will involve considering current trends and the potential effectiveness of each channel. Output as a table.”

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. Which campaign strategies generate the most donations?

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of my favorite parts about starting a new year is reviewing all of the top 10 (or in some cases the top 133) lists and trends. Don’t worry though, we have taken care of the heavy lifting at Frogloop and summarized our favorite “best of” lists that highlights strategists favorite trends and strategies from 2012.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

As Candid’s manager of digital communications, I’ve been digging through our social media analytics, researching broader trends, and determining our strategy and tactics for 2024. I selected those metrics because our goals for social media are to increase brand awareness and drive traffic to our articles and resources.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. . with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. That’s the destination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I launched a Facebook Fan Page for my blog over the summer shortly after Facebook announced vanity urls. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. The Facebook Insights tool lets you see trends Fan acquisition and subscription.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. The deadline to sign up is December 2, 2022.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2023

There are always questions about the future of fundraising: What trends will take hold? Now, fundraisers can participate from anywhere in the world, showing their progress on interactive maps, while charities can use these metrics to tell their stories. I hope this trend continues in our industry.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. . with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. That’s the destination.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Inbound marketing often help you draw people in through content such as: blogs, videos, social media, SEO, and other organic marketing channels. Determining metrics to track Without knowing what metrics to track, it’s hard for you to determine how effective your marketing efforts truly are.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Fundraising Trends to Watch. In 2023, keep an eye out for these trends: Creating a Comprehensive Fundraising Plan for Your Nonprofit. Critical Fundraising Metrics to Increase Donor Retention. Take these metrics into consideration and make sure your organization is on track to increase donor retention and net more money.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

You can pull in different report metrics and filters to get the information you need to make decisions. As trends inevitably change the face of the giving community, you’re left stuck with the workflow you implemented years ago, including features that could be obsolete by now. first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Care2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Are you measuring the right social media metrics or do you have your head in the sand? So what type of metrics are non-profits tracking to determine if they are achieving their objectives? One metric I track on our Blog is RSS or eMail subscribers. Think about that for a minute or so. The answer matters. Good question.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

It takes various components to make an organization run effectively, and by properly utilizing donor data and information, organizations can track interactions, estimate future performance, address potential concerns, and see donor retention trends. first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. The post What is Donor Relation Management?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The trend leans heavily toward a monthly gift cadence, with 94% of recurring donors preferring to give monthly. For your organization’s staff, donor data provides valuable information about trends and the life cycle of a one-time donor versus recurring donor, ultimately helping your team create strategies to mitigate donor attrition.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

You can use generative solutions to help draft full email messages, text messages, blog post outlines, direct mail letters, and more. You can use this information to identify trends and patterns in donor sentiment. The post How to Use AI Fundraising Tools to Boost Donor Engagement first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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