Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4? GA4 is a replacement for UA rather than an update to it.

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Analytics University Data API 45

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Your development and fundraising team typically owns campaign creation, supporter management, and reporting. High-performing teams will use reporting features to gauge success over time and see where there are opportunities for improvement. They’ll look at metrics on missing donor data, address updates, and donor actions.

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Fundraising Metrics Database Nonprofit 95

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom. What do you suggest?

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Report Ratio Tucson Director 86

Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to acquisition, we all know that metrics matter. However, most nonprofits don’t know which metrics to look at —or what to do with that information once they have it. . Taking time to read spreadsheets or reports full of data can be time consuming and overwhelming. I recommend looking at three key metrics. .

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research.

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Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

This article is meant to help people that were familiar with UA and are now trying to make the transition to GA4 for reporting. UA is going to be sunset in July, 2023 and GA4 is its successor Different navigation with fewer out-of-the-box reports in GA4 Everything in GA4 is an event, designed to work cookie-less unlike UA.

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Analytics University Difference Metrics 59

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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Copyright Report Broadcast Free 74

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Reporting : The best dashboards come with built-in reporting features that make it easy to see how your nonprofit is performing over time. Nonprofit pricing is available – Power BI for Nonprofits.

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Analytics Tools Wikipedia Track 52

Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

Similar to the engagement meter, a generosity score also provides an at-a-glance view of an important supporter metric. Fundraising metrics. Your dashboard can provide insight into your most important fundraising metrics. Pull reports highlighting opportunities for improvement. QuickBooks.

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Software Management Donor Guide 98

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve created this guide to nonprofit CRM options, through which you’ll review the basics of CRM software and a side-by-side comparison of the top solutions through the following points: Overview of CRM for Nonprofits. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Depending on the solution, features may include: Reporting automation.

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Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. And boy, were there some outliers this year.

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Fundraising Gift Rate email 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

For step 1, she suggested using Juice Analytics chart chooser tool. I wanted to learn more about what particular chart format is better suited to visualize a particular comparison or insight from social media data. Time Series Comparisons. More in bar charts in excel.

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Chart Comparison Data Measure 105

Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Reporting features. Reporting features can help your team provide a better experience for your members with each subsequent event, as you’ll be able to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information.

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Metrics Rate Nonprofit Social Media 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

These are also good for designing reports. (1) This requires some discipline to think long and hard about what data is most useful to gain an understanding. A nonprofit recently shared their social media metrics spreadsheet with me and it was 150 rows of data that require constant scrolling. Do you need to a monthly trend?

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Comparison? 90% of them can’t be answered by data or metrics. But we can’t achieve any of those things if our teams are burned out, overwhelmed, or more tuned-in to metrics than meaning. You did a great job on that report. What was our motivation? Were we sparked by fear? What if COVID never ends?!) A scarcity mindset?

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Nonprofit Team Goal Attention 59

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Here’s my spreadsheet aerobics daily and monthly routine. I grab the monthly daily data from the insights tool (old version) and download into a spreadsheet. Out of the 25 or metrics I could look at, I only collect the following metrics: Total Interactions. New Fans (Likes). Unsubscribes. Page Views.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame.

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Taxonomy Metrics San Francisco Ghana 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors. And the sector is getting better at measuring social change and that there has been a lot of progress in the way the sector measures and reports on big social change outcomes.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

That's why I was a little confounded when we first started using our new e-mail system, and it would spit out a report like this: An overall open rate of almost 33%? What our system reports – and I suspect others, as well – is an average of averages, or what I call an "Unweighted Open Rate" (as opposed to the traditional "True Open Rate").

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Rate Open Benchmark Mail 61

Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

Read the first post for an overview of the Dashboard and the second and third posts for a tour through some of the most useful reports around visitors & even more exciting reports about visitors. This filter may affect your key metrics, and you’ll want to make sure to be able to quantify the effect it has made on your data.

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Analytics Google Profile Metrics 48

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once you have a few months’ worth of data, you can use a reporting system to support the growth of your program. I often use monthly and year-over-year comparisons, which helps me identify more active times of the year (like hurricane season, #GivingTuesday, or the holidays).

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Gift Program Blackbaud Hurricane 22

sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Lists in Your Grant Reporting. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Reports Should Save You Time, Not Waste It. The “What is This Report Telling Me?”

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Chart Report Data Grant 73

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. We know you have a lot on your plate. You just wrapped up year-end appeals. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. It’s always great to pull screenshots from Google Analytics to show reports and add some interest to the slides. If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric. Methodology. What’s Next.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Laura Whitehead. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain.

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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2023

When you send a fundraising email can be the difference between improved engagement metrics (open rate, click-through rate, donation amount, etc.) We paid close attention to key email engagement metrics, including email performance by time of day. Compare engagement metrics and test until you see improvements.

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email Time Fundraising Benchmark 69

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Here are 10 of the most helpful reports and resources for philanthropy professionals: Giving in an Election Year. A new report on charitable giving in a political climate. 2016 Nonprofit Sector Leadership Report. The 2015 Charitable Giving Report. 2016 NGO Online Technology Report. The State of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Professional Causes NGO News 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

“Big listening is taking all the conversations that are going on online and trying to find pockets; in our case, ocean issues like MPAs (marine protected areas), overfishing, sustainable seafood, whales, bluefin tuna, ocean acidification, sharks, and shark finning, “ explains Matt Fitzgerald, Upwell’s Curator & Social Metrics Manager.

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Conservancy Measure Conversation Nonprofit 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Whether you're reporting to your board, supporting teams in different departments, or just trying to get through to a specific type of donor, we've broken down all the ways your CRM + donor software can help. Using reports to answer some of the typical questions you might get from a board member. Reporting to your board of directors.

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Software Donor Management Template 100

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Communication can take various forms, including email newsletters, annual reports, and social media updates. Impact reports: You can provide donors with regular impact reports that highlight the difference their contributions are making.

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Donor Management Guide Retention 52

sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. Over the five-year report period, the median number of recurring donors increased by 44%. The data set included 20 million donors who gave 71 million gifts for a total of $2.9

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Blackbaud Analytics Retention Channel 81

Neon CRM

MAY 5, 2023

Workflow Automation: In one study, private sector workers reported wasting up to four and a half hours per week on tasks they think could be automated. For a more comprehensive review of some of the top CRMs for nonprofits, check out our comparison guide. Revenue-based billing is a much better option for growing nonprofits.

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Benefit Nonprofit email Comparison 52