Candid

MAY 1, 2024

In addition, our user experience team conducts extensive research—surveys, interviews, usability tests, and data analysis on specific areas where we know there is a need. So, we conducted interviews to understand the most important use cases for fiscal sponsorship data and about the process of fiscal sponsorship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. Impact management is an ongoing, disciplined approach to using data and evidence across an organization’s programming and operations. Market forces.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 8, 2023

Gathering Data for Informed Decision-Making Measuring Fundraising Success Evaluate the total amount of money raised and breakdowns of different revenue streams such as ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations. This data helps identify the most effective fundraising methods and areas for improvement in future events.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

First, let’s go over the basics of the main methods your organization can use as a part of your marketing plan. It’s important to record data to evaluate donor engagement and create new strategies for stewardship. For each donor, create a profile in your CRM to track data such as: Which campaigns they engage with.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That way, you will know what decisions your board is making and can provide them with the data that will guide them to the right ones. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Surveys can be a great tool for this. What will convince them is data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. Telling the wrong story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

I first put a fitbit, a digital pedometer that tracks steps, calories burned, food intake, and other personal analytics data, on my wrist back in October. As a data nerd, I couldn’t resist the fitbit and its ability to track my every move during this glorious science experiment. Otherwise, I would need to go on statins.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

That includes web development, technical strategy, fundraising, and CRM and data management— each of which depends on a strong understanding of an organization’s audience to be successful. Rather than basing your campaigns on a “hunch,” you can base them on quantifiable data. Step 3: Design your market research survey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

It provides critical data for nonprofit leaders, board members and funders to understand the effectiveness of organizations in serving their missions. To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Break down your goals into objectives and strategies: Objectives are the specific steps or milestones needed to achieve your goals, while strategies are the methods or tactics you’ll use to accomplish your objectives. These methods can help you gain insights into potential supporters’ preferences, motivations, and concerns.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Let Data Choose Your Channels This is another case where the channels you’ve used in previous years’ campaigns can inform which channels you should lean into this year and which you should go lighter on. Use a Variety of Methods You want your end-of-year giving campaign to reach far and wide and connect with donors where they are.

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Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Getting creative and re-evaluating old peer-to-peer fundraising methods has become especially important in recent years due to declines in household giving. If you wish to collect anonymous feedback, send out surveys for your fundraisers to complete at their discretion. Do they feel sufficiently supported by your organization?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

The most effective method for doing this, in my experience, is to work collaboratively with key stakeholders, including those who will be involved in and impacted by the program. an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? Their input can be really valuable when identifying measures and ways to collect data.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. Anna Greco did research in three ways: through in-person interviews with participants, surveys with participants, and observational analysis of the jars themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the most valuable is to incorporate a process evaluation, capturing what actually happened as the event or program unfolded. This can avoid repeating mistakes of the past. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. As you proceed, you’ll have concrete methods for measuring the efficacy of your changes. Constituents Served.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Best of all, you really only need to adopt a few proven and productive cultivation and engagement methods to start converting your peer-to-peer event participants into monthly donors. Go All in on Donor Data Every nonprofit wants attendees who will stick with them after the event, but how do you know who is the best fit for your cause?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. What is the difference?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately.

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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. Invest in data analytics : Leverage data analytics to better understand donor patterns and preferences.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The typical response of most charities is to try and repackage existing data to meet the rising requirements. Then we can provide you with the most meaningful measurement of our performance, rather than just secondary data on financial inputs. is working to create a list of tools to help charities implement meaningful surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Evaluate your progress and determine whether you are on track to meet your targets. However, it’s always a good rule to try to avoid taking actions out of panic, and instead be methodical. Optimize existing strategies: Fine-tune your existing fundraising strategies by incorporating lessons learned from your evaluation.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. In 2020, tech nonprofit NTEN announced that they were pulling their advertising from Facebook due to its data-collection and content-moderation policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. These issues have the potential to affect the representativeness of data collected—which is paramount for ensuring meaningful feedback. More is Not Always Better—Evaluate Frequency. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I will be taking my dream workshop – a workshop on methods for facilitating innovation using human-centered design principles from the masters at Luma Institute. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3 Data Analytics. One can evaluate training effectiveness, learner’s preferences, and usage patterns through analysis and visualizing software, Tin Can and other analytics tools. Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

Jen initially wrote this post for me to share a highlights from a webinar we hosted: Are you asking the right questions in your post event survey? In 2011, we wanted to evaluate our Bowl for Kids Sake website to see what was working and what might need to be updated. It’s a fun and informative webinar, check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. Second, being a data geek – these artifacts of learning can help me assess participant understanding of the concepts of crowd funding – and how to improve the content for better understanding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Four methods to address the challenges of slim administrative budgets are: 1. Organizations need to properly report actual costs and then use this data to make the case to funders to support those full costs. Change the unrealistic expectations of contributors.

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