Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

I learned about measurement from Katie Delahaye Paine, who is the leading expert in measuring communications strategies. I was honored enough to co-author a book with Katie, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” a book about measuring social media and networks. So, I know first-hand how incredibly brilliant she is!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn from my mistakes and create better charts for your audience – to show fundraising results, organization’s impact or benchmarking. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Are we guilty of creating such charts ourselves? Here’s a chart from my thesis I created about 15 years ago.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

To gain the trust of prospective donors, you need to show how your values align with theirs and how you’ll make a measurable impact. If you chart your course intentionally in those early days, you can help set your nonprofit up for growth, sustainability, and impact.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

This statement is crucial for demonstrating how effectively your nonprofit manages its resources. These resources can offer timely insights into changes in accounting standards and how they affect your organization. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

These unacceptable outcomes are a direct result of under-investment in young people from under-resourced communities and communities of color. We can and should take further steps to ensure that all children—including those in under-invested and under-resourced communities—thrive. government’s Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence There is a lot of buzz surrounding AI technologies and rightfully so, as the AI healthcare market is measured to be worth $38 billion by 2027. This means that patients enjoy timely and accurate treatment plans while healthcare staff can adequately allocate resources. With this in mind, let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

I hope these resources fill you with inspiration and gusto to go out and create your own amazing content! 24 Nonprofit Resources for the Smart Fundraiser: Sector Insight: Giving USA : If you didn’t know Giving USA was out I’m going to assume you’ve been on vacation and have avoided all websites and social media.

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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. Measurable: Quantifiable. Realistic: Reasonable based on your available resources.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To understand why nonprofit healthcare data silos are an issue, let’s examine their ramifications more closely: Inefficient workflows: Data silos cause duplication and can force operational teams to manually input data, wasting both precious time and resources. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You know what they say about measurement, right? Start with benchmark data.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Remember to choose the communication channels your audience is already familiar with, and chart a customer journey that moves each prospect carefully down the sales funnel. Collect digital marketing KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics used to measure your digital marketing success. Create training resources.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. as measured by total giving. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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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. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score. Why get good at Excel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

One of my favorite resources is The Noun Project which is a visual language site that collects and organizes symbols and icons for public use. After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

For nonprofits, those are not solely money or efficiency for everything that could be measured. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. It also requires an institutionalized process beyond having a staff person (or an intern) quickly generate a couple of charts and graphs from a spreadsheet brimming full of trivial data.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

According to Finch, measuring impact is a crucial component of any non-profit’s business plan, and a dedicated volunteer management application can “simplify coordination and serve as a central database for volunteer performance data.” Digital Resources Nonprofit'

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JUNE 14, 2021

Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. Identify areas of organizational improvement.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. What if we used new skills rooted in shared learning to drive results in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the resources? Our expectations around results are powerful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer “solutions&# for tracking, measuring, and even “engaging&# with your community online. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Tags: resources community content howto strategy. A note about DIY.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Many grant applications will ask similar questions, such as what programs or materials you need funding for and why, how your nonprofit makes an impact in the community, and how you’ll measure success if selected for the award. Organizational chart. Use Resources to Improve Your Writing. Most recent Form 990. Mission statement.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. Consider your nonprofit’s current fundraising strategies and staff capacity to determine whether your goals are realistic based on your resources and available time.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Earlier this summer I posted on top tips for measuring ROI and getting strategic with data , touching on the idea and importance of actionable data, or rather, data that helps draw meaningful conclusions and future actions to optimize programs. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

By centering your grantee’s capabilities, you are more likely to get the information to tell a clear story about how you support their work instead of asking for information they can’t or don’t have the resources to provide. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists. Need help making sense of your GMS data?

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts? Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is important to get your team on the same page, create a strategy for execution, and monitor/measure the progress, outcomes, and result of the change. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. What resources will be provided? Measure Your Progress. Be patient.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Giving them the resources and data they need to effectively analyze your fundraising performance will empower them to help your organization to the fullest extent. Doing so can be as simple as sharing a chart with these metrics from the past year: Total dollars raised: overall dollars acquired through fundraising initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. Because I am developing some material for upcoming training workshops this month and next, I’ve been on the prowl for useful and practice resources for content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Notes and Resources. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Return on Investment. At least in the nonprofit sector.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It means that where your organization puts its time, energy, and resources is a direct expression of the things it values. Development Officer Annual Gala Event CLOSE DOWN Reallocate resources to digital fundraising campaigns that offer broader reach and lower overhead. What does that mean?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. Top feature: Google’s Drive app is a helpful resource management solution for nonprofits. Top feature: Analyze your data using charts that are updated in real-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2015

“There is NO correlation between size and budget and high measurement cultures!” In other words, she interviewed and profiled many small nonprofits with few resources who were using data to guide outcomes. ” #DoGoodData2015. Beth Kanter (@kanter) May 1, 2015. So, no more excuses!

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