Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Council on Foundations ’ annual survey and report on staff salaries and benefits at U.S. Unlike sources such as the IRS form 990-PF , the survey goes beyond the top-paid employees by collecting salaries for any full-time staff, which match the descriptions in a predefined list of common 35 roles among grantmaking foundations.

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 97

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 84

Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

Start by surveying your members to get a sense of their background and trade knowledge. After receiving the survey results, you can consider how best to utilize SMEs in your learning program. To create industry-specific content for your association’s learning program, you’ll want to attract more SMEs to volunteer.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

According to The Council of Nonprofits 2023 Nonprofit Workforce Survey , almost three quarters of nonprofits that completed the survey have current openings at their organization. Be sure to save those query results so they can be reused, or even use an export tool if you need to share it with other users.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 80

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. The chart below highlights that upward trend. You can use our new Survey Analyzer to slice and dice it by state, sector, or organization size. And that you did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Communicating Results. Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Use these strategies to identify your ideal customer and ensure your digital marketing materials appeal to them: Send out surveys. Adjust your digital marketing strategy according to the responses you receive to make clients feel valued and drive better results. Analyze your CRM. They begin filling out the registration form.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

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. Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. What is your process?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. 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.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders. Drives for results. Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level?

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Skills Leadership Mentoring Summary 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

We talked about the issue of “ collaborative overload ” which is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative online technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done.We Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. " Pew Research raw survey data now available – Looking for some data to help tell your organization's story? ."

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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

JUNE 22, 2011

A simple online survey. We’ve become addicted to generating pretty charts and graphs, while taking any opportunity to play with any new (and especially free) social media measurement tool that we read about on blogs. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy.

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Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Send a donor survey. Both fundraising and finance staff need to be using the same chart of accounts structure for the fund designations to align. That’s why it makes sense to “frame” an appeal according to areas of your mission you know resonate with supporters. If people like the learning sessions, pick that. How to find out?

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Gift Lesson Skills Training 82

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. In February, Idealware distributed a survey (thorough an informal email outreach) to over 500 nonprofit professionals who were using Facebook at their organizations. And people did indeed see successful results.

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Facebook Research Advocacy Analytics 123

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. Leadership wants to see results in their investments and it’s your job, as a marketer, to be able to show that progress. Survey Visitors On Your Website. Over 10,000 visits every month.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A big hat tip to Nedra Weinreich for a link to this study about nonprofit social media adoption: Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson at U Mass Dartmouth surveyed the 200 largest nonprofits and found that they are adopting social media. Makes a lot of sense, given that these tools are mostly free or low-cost, and yet so effective.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang. for ACH transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

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. Send a survey if you don’t hear back. Send an event invite for an upcoming opportunity, such as a volunteer initiative or stewardship event.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 102

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. This week’s installment of Research Friday looks at what the survey results tell us about nonprofit board engagement in tough times. So what does that mean for the board? Like this article? Get another!

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Research Survey Fund Stats 85

Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

Results from the study suggest that association professionals (Pros) are working harder than they were a year ago, with time and member engagement being the biggest challenges to achieving organizational priorities. Survey responses from Pros suggest that the state of their member data has room to improve. Ensure your board: .

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Associations Studies Trend Data 78

Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Take a look at the chart below. According to the reports survey participants: 59% of nonprofits say they have not developed a social media strategy. But as you can see from the survey results, many nonprofits aren’t dedicating the necessary resources and strategies to raise money. 17% raised money via Causes.

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Social Media Money Raise Media 77

NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

[This is part three of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. The above chart represents the responses from survey participants. What Do the Results Tell Us About Tech Adoption at Nonprofits? “We

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Adopt Benchmark Tech Technology 81

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Analyzing the results. So the key question is of course, does all of this extra work yield results? However, digital can be a bit trickier.

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Check out the details: Learn from 28 hand-selected sessions to give you the latest digital marketing + fundraising strategies that generate more results in less time. We recently conducted a survey of nonprofit professionals and found that your biggest challenges are growing fundraising with limited time + resources.

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Digital Fundraising Social Media Grant 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Learning is the ultimate result of being “ data informed ” that is using feedback data to improve results. As a result, nonprofits’ programs and services aren’t always designed to meet the changing needs of the community. If customers don’t like a product, they won’t pay for it!

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

You might send surveys or host meetings with high-level supporters to get their input on your organization’s strategies. Run metrics reports regularly and share the results with your team to ensure everyone is on the same page about how your strategy is going. He is a graduate of Butler University with a B.S.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Would you analyze surveys after tossing several shots of Tequilas? I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results. How much sleep does your body actually need?

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

” 2. Use Measurement To Improve Results. At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results fromthe government’s own estimates.

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Measure Ethiopia Summary Nonprofit 102

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their foremost philanthropic priority is to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth by aiding progress in the field of child welfare through dissemination of knowledge about research, studies, surveys, projects, or by supporting programs and activities benefiting the welfare of children and youth.

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Grant Fund Connecticut Colorado 103

Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Their foremost philanthropic priority is to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth by aiding progress in the field of child welfare through dissemination of knowledge about research, studies, surveys, projects, or by supporting programs and activities benefiting the welfare of children and youth.

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Grant Fund Connecticut Colorado 111

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

One source of data informing this work is our annual State of the Sector Survey. Throughout the year, I’ve been blogging about key trends from our 2011 survey, which was completed by nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. NFF is now preparing to launch the new State of the Sector survey in January 2012. Like this article?

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Research Survey Model Chart 74