Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

With this in mind, we’ll highlight four digital healthcare technology trends that your organization may benefit from tracking: Artificial Intelligence Cloud Integration Enhanced Data Privacy Security Personalized Healthcare Before discussing each trend in detail, it’s important to acknowledge the role of these technologies.

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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 typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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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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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

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. Decide how to address each of those elements to get your organization back on track.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. Our expectations around results are powerful. They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

If you took a high school or college course in statistics, you’re on the right track. 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. Charts can showcase your organization’s most important findings. Why get good at Excel?

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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. For many non-profits, data crunching is everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. It also helps you keep track of progress made towards goals. 2: Track Your Moods. With regular intelligence, you are generally as “smart” now as you ever are going to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Click Image to see larger version.

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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. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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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. In this phase, you will plan, act, track, and adapt. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Be patient.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Track data for your marketing campaigns during these special events to determine which messages are most effective for driving donations. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Measure the impact that changes to your online engagement approach have on your fundraising outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It's powerful workflows are meant to help nonprofit fundraisers ditch spreadsheets once and for all, and track major gifts like never before. #7. 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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere.

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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. Review major gift results Assess your major giving program results to determine how well the program works and identify opportunities for improvement.

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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. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Leadership wants to see results in their investments and it’s your job, as a marketer, to be able to show that progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. I started with tracking my baseline activity level: about 2,000 steps a day.

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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. Success is based on knowing what content your audience likes based on making sense of measurement so you can replicate that success. Is it that simple? Six Types of Visual Content.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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. Double the Donation’s nonprofit CRM guide explains that a robust database will make it incredibly easy to track progress within your database. Predictive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. And people did indeed see successful results. With free web analytics tools like Google Analytics, tracking who followed your link from your Facebook page is one of the most measurable goals included in this survey.

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Classy

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. Most recent Form 990. 501(c)(3) letter of determination. Updated nonprofit bylaws.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective and ethical nonprofit organizations that achieve significant results in the community. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Areas served: New York (western), Massachusetts (eastern). Daniel’s Fund.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective and ethical nonprofit organizations that achieve significant results in the community. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Areas served: New York (western), Massachusetts (eastern). Daniel’s Fund.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 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. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were one of the foundation professionals who joined us this year in Nashville, you are hopefully well into your planning for how to put some of what you learned to use; I’m also hoping you enjoy this little refresher on what I consider to be some of the finer takeaways from our foundations track. The end result?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Recipe for (Measuring) Success. Today, I’d like to share with you my favorite event report, in the hopes that it might save you some time and provide some insight into what you should be tracking and how to track it. Author: Noel Beebe. Is Team Captain. Registration Date. Registration Fees Paid. Online Dollars Raised. *In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. I tested a number of those apps and found the best one for me was “ Moodnotes ,” you can track your emotions in different work situations and it prompts you to reflect on the situation and how to manage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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