Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. When reporting on these numbers try breaking it down into small digestible chunks of data that are easy to interpret.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

These proactive measures will not only keep your SOA in line with the latest accounting standards but also ensure your organization’s financial health is accurately represented, fostering trust among stakeholders and supporting the sustainability of your mission. Engage with accounting professionals who specialize in nonprofit finance.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ease of use : The best dashboards are easy to use, even for those who don’t have a lot of experience with data. Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track.

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Care2

APRIL 30, 2014

Perhaps you have a hunch, but the only surefire way to know this info is to develop a tracking and measurement plan. To help get you started, here is a list of some of my favorite measurement tools. Twitter Ads Dashboard : Twitter has made its Ads Dashboard available for regular use beyond advertising tracking.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , I thought I'd share how I look at my Facebook page data. That in turns drives my measurement strategy.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Shakespearean answer : If the topic of Google Analytics and all things web tracking feels like a foreign language and you’re more of a theatre person here is a quick Shakespearean summary of what is going on. More robust tracking out-of-the-box when enhanced events are chosen ( full list of GA4 events ) GA4 Events are more robust.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

They use donor data to deduplicate customer records, which ensures you have all the information to build a relationship with a donor in one place. They may also receive payout reports or other data from different teams to incorporate and track within a database. Solution Architect.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

If using these new technologies effectively, nonprofit professionals can speed up their ability to build relationships with supporters, analyze donor data , and create sustainable fundraising plans. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here at Candid, we’ve been tracking those statistics for the last 12 years as part of our GlassPockets initiative to champion greater transparency in philanthropy. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. Open Data Defined.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Key features of the NPSP include: Donor and volunteer management: Keep detailed records of donors, track their giving history, and segment them for more targeted outreach. Program management: Monitor program outcomes, track beneficiary interactions, and demonstrate the impact of your work to stakeholders.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

We also had him share insights on the metrics you should measure. help a nonprofit track its fundraising and justify its time and effort? Multiple Year Retention Rate : Same as above, but by tracking these year-by-year you can spot trends, problems and opportunities. Fail to answer them, and it’s more of the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! And, of course, making the time to actually look and think about what the data means.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Segmenting data, what does that mean and what are some of the ways we might do that. So how do we know what to track?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2016

The new edition of the Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems is a 300-plus page downloadable report that provides detailed comparisons of 29 grants management systems. Online grant applications, tracking, and reporting have become standard practice. So what is new in grants management systems? Quite a lot, it turns out.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Starting to fundraise without a plan is like building a house without a draft – you need a plan to know where you’re going, and to keep you on that track. There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. By using CauseVox, you keep track of donations that may help uncover trends or certain results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Here at NTEN, we find it valuable to keep track of both numbers. The traditional measure of open rates – total messages opened ÷ total messages delivered – should be used to gauge the overall health of your e-mail program. Because the comparisons will never be exact, the most important thing to watch is your True Open Rate over time.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

That might seem low, but it’s actually on track with other online trends. As a point of comparison, the U.S. The data shows that both digital immigrant and digital native donors have embraced the multichannel wonderland. Thankfully, we have lots of data to settle the argument. of total fundraising revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. To address these challenges, the GIIN will continue work initiated by The Rockefeller Foundation , Acumen Fund , and B Lab to advance a common framework for defining, tracking, and reporting the performance of impact investing capital.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And the mission of the organization matters too. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By focusing on every step of that donor journey and leveraging supporter data to build better relationships with supporters, your nonprofit can stop focusing so much on acquiring new ones and start reaping the rewards of a loyal donor base. It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Then let’s get started!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. billion in online giving data from 2015 and features key statistics on year-over-year charitable giving broken down by nonprofit size and sector.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Tracking User Interactions Reveals Valuable Metrics How someone reacts to content is just as important as how they found that content in the first place. Unfortunately, a lot of the common metrics we use track the first part of their journey but miss the mark on the second. Download the full report today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Here are nine persona examples that use data to talk to potential donors, current supporters, event attendees, and more. You can show Susan that the feeling is mutual by tracking her interests and sharing stories that demonstrate how her support moves your work forward. And the process of building these personas can get very detailed.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Some messages sent by Epic Change via their 180+ JustCoz participants would get zero response.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Donor Data is a Top Priority When conducting any sort of fundraising campaign, you need to make sure you are working with data about your donors.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In fact, Candid centers much of its work on collecting, standardizing, and making this data available. How are they thinking about impact measurement? ii] As a point of comparison, the proportion of all U.S. But a lot of the questions we—and you—have about the nonprofit sector go beyond the information provided on an IRS Form.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field. Tracking race and ethnicity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Are you struggling to turn your data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story? At Tableau, we want to empower nonprofits to make a difference with their data. That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

and use a tool like rowfeeder to capture the hashtag stream into a spreadsheet to analyze. You’ll can do some comparison testing of different calls to action and then refine what you’re doing. Just a small pilot, a little bit a data, and linked to decision-making can help your tweets have more impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Dashboards provide measures to help you make better decisions. They rely heavily on gauges or other data visualization displays to convey information in readily understandable formats. 4) Tracking Dashboards. These can be inward or outward facing, and typically show visualizations of unfolding data streams in real-time.

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