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. The good folks at Idealware offered me a sneak peak of their new Facebook research – how could I resist? research report from Idealware in May.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

According to Candid research, approximately 90% of foundations don’t have a website. It all starts with knowing the information you have and identifying the story you want to tell. But you still need to collect some information in order to make an educated funding decision. The key is to be intentional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Quickie 60-second analyses can give you as much information as 60-minute analyses. Charts can showcase your organization’s most important findings.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

Research shows that nonprofits that have worked through a digital transformation process are fast, agile, and resilient. Do you have the information you need to guide your key strategic decisions? Greg Perlstein is a digital transformation lead for Salesforce.org, working with customers to chart their paths to greater social impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With your help, we’ve amassed a wealth of current information on demand for services, trends in government support, board participation, and financial health. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Research in the for-profit sector has found that CEOs might make anywhere from six times to six thousand times as much as the median worker. iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

But donors can reveal just as much information about their motivations and interests through their unspoken actions. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. This can be helpful information when searching for prospective business partners or event sponsors.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the need-to-know information and steps of creating a major gift fundraising strategy, including: What is a major gift? Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys!

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

From tracking donations and expenditures, the success or failure of fund-raising events, staff protocols and effectiveness, lists of donors large and small and so much more, the organization that shirks information management does so at their own peril.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. Our purposes for using Analytics as User Research are: To learn about current visitors to the website. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively. Show appreciation for their contributions and keep them informed about the impact of their donations. Use this information to optimize your fundraising efforts and make data-driven decisions.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Gift range chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. Here’s a few that I found most informative: Best Practices for Big Data: Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Next, measuring the impact of your digital marketing can be broken down into two ways: Tangible Measurements : Are typically revenue focused where the desired outcome is to sell a service or receive donations while accounting for expenses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). How do you measure that? However, the studies in measuring intrinsic impact were intended for “internal assessment and critical reflection purposes” (Brown & Novak, 2013).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For instance, your major gift officer may use an app to look up more information about major prospects prior to initial meetings. but now, you can take all that information on the go with Bloomerang’s mobile fundraising app ! They offer a donor portal that makes it easy for donors to self-serve their information updates.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. The GAHC had been using Excel to manage campaigns but didn’t have a way to view each donor’s giving history and other crucial donor information.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

This list is comprised of tools, research, fundraising ideas, and other reading material to give you insight into how the sector as a whole is doing and what your strategic focus should be going forward. Gift range chart : Utilizing a gift range chart is a great way to created focused, goal-oriented campaigns.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

One tactic that has been successful for the nonprofit CARE is to provide their donors with two simple pie charts that illustrate how funds raised are allocated below the credit card donation form. You need this information to tailor appeals to different segments of your list. Tell people what you want them to do quickly.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16. Visualize your data like never before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# Qriously could be used to test different messages and groups to measure where responses are strongest. Campaigning.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If records are confirmed duplicates, have reviewers specify which record has the most complete information – this will be the “go-forward” record. Researching how others had succeeded at #GivingTuesday. bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . Engaging corporate sponsors.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Professor of Management.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Do a Google search and you can find a great deal of research on virtually all aspects of interests, attitudes and aptitudes for Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and the Matures. What has been missing is information that how different generations learn about, engage with and donate to charitable organizations -- until now. " Mark Twain.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2011

According to a DonorTrends survey, 58% of donors say they research an organization online before they give a gift, though most of them don't give online. It also means that when you're measuring your website's impact on fundraising, your online donation statistics tell less than half of the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I sat in on a session by Joe Sokohl that turned out to be a tour of three lovely and inspiring homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , and a discussion about how we can apply lessons from his architectural genius to information architecture. Tags: Influence Audience Research Events Tips & Trends. Does it adhere to best practices?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% It’s in our org charts. A decade ago, we found through research that peer-to-peer fundraising combined with social media was a form of giving alchemy. Can you read a chart? Choose wisely.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. According to the TeleWork Research Network , once-weekly telecommutes could save the U.S. And never the twain shall meet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Last year, we did research on Millennial donors and it spurred us to do it again. Giving, communication and engagement are the three areas of research. This year’s research followed last year’s findings. 70% said trust was in understanding financial information and how their donation would be used. Engagement.

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