Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. In addition to keeping it safe and secure, think of how you can leverage it to gain insights to help run your association more effectively. An example is how many new members did we acquire last month?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

This checklist will help to recognize whether your organization should apply for grants now or focus on organizational growth to prepare for grant-seeking in the future. The checklist below can help you assess your organization’s readiness to both apply for grants and manage grant-funded initiatives.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Volunteers can certainly be a huge help for any nonprofit staffer, especially since cloning yourself isn’t an option… yet. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2017

Even if they are using a study for supporting evidence, it’s possible that research had a limited response pool—their own clients, for example. For example …. Rather than ignore all advice or grow frustrated by the differing opinions, keep reading — it expands your mind—but create your own lens for evaluating advice.

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Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. To expand your nonprofit’s ability to help your cause, you need more people to know about both your cause and your organization. Planning ahead ensures you’ll stay organized and keeps you on track with your goals.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Impact,” by definition, is the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another. And while this definition may make you think of car accidents or meteors, that’s exactly what your organization is doing—you’re coming into contact with the people who need it most with a force for good. Defining impact. Measuring impact.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, if your largest donations tend to be between $25,000 and $50,000, you might designate that range as your major gift range. A major gift fundraising strategy helps ensure that more of these massive donations are coming your nonprofit’s way. Evaluate external threats and opportunities. billion in 2022.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 97

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. It helps us to adapt, adjust, and evolve amidst complexity. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One way for corporations to practice philanthropy is workplace giving, which relies on employee participation: Workplace giving is an employer-sponsored giving program that helps employees contribute to charitable causes. This means that employees want your help contributing to nonprofit causes!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There is no one-size-fits-all definition for major gifts because each organization’s budget varies. For example, some nonprofits may consider any donation above $1,000 a major gift, while others may set the bar higher depending on the scope of their campaign or overall budget. Do you have enough resources to fund a program?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Evaluating Ideas for Fundraising Events When you’re evaluating a potential fundraising event, don’t just look at the potential revenue. A Community/Fun Event can help you build community relationships. Examples of Community/Fun fundraising events include: Fun runs/walks.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. Updating our definition of racial equity to a changing world . This new data set from Candid is filled with thousands of examples of organizations across the U.S.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

And from the Q&A at the end of the event … QUESTION: You talked about using social media logins, like Facebook, to help capture more information about donors and prospects. We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents. What tools do you recommend? DEBBIE: Yes.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

QUESTION: Do you also help clients evaluate database management systems to determine a best fit for a client? QUESTION: Can you provide examples of data standards policies? We provided some examples in the presentation, which you can download from our website. Below I will discuss a few more examples for you to consider.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Before COVID, there had been about 200 active volunteers including intermittent help for events as well as scheduled assignments like homework help and admin support. I took advantage of the lull to evaluate the program, especially whether existing assignments supported the organization’s evolving needs.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. Most of all your fundraising plan helps you prioritize. Prioritize Using a Fundraising Plan. Your Organizational Goal.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

Volunteer Hub

MARCH 7, 2022

For example, if you find out that your new volunteer, Susan, works in the telemarketing industry, your immediate thought might be to assign her the task of fundraising via telephone. This example illustrates how crucial it is to gather information from a newly recruited volunteer. Personal Growth. Rewards and Recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The Playbook includes a few examples and methods for doing this. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They help to measure performance and see how far along you are in meeting campaign goals or even a secondary goal, like cultivating and engaging audiences. . UTM tracking can help you deepen the understanding of your different audiences based on their acquisition source. Examples include Facebook, MarketingCloud, Instagram, etc. .

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. To help uncover what this demographic data can tell us about diversity and representation in the U.S.

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2021

The pandemic has probably also helped you to take a step back and focus on. Whatever you’ve experimented with will help shape your strategy going forward. Waivers created through electronic waiver software are extremely helpful tools when it comes to mitigating legal risks your nonprofit might encounter. You might have.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

No matter the type of event you’re planning, we’re here to help you and your donors spring into giving. This can make or break your event so while you’re evaluating your options, definitely consider the ease of use for your staff and participants. Another example of sponsorship levels via The Center in Hollywood.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

For example, a nonprofit offering services to the formerly incarcerated may analyze recidivism rates and tweak its programs to offer improved counseling and intervention solutions. At this stage, it can also be helpful to encourage input from your constituents, staff, and board members. Constituents Demonstrating a New Behavior/Skill.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” This example illustrates the power that funders hold in this dynamic between organizations trying to meet undefined goals and parameters of “innovation” and funders not matching their risk talk with their risk walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Artist Blogs.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

As you know, large events require lots of help. They may help with tasks such as distributing water bottles or helping at registration. Their support can help make or break your day-of event experience. They help your organization hit various event goals and lay the groundwork for successful future events.

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Build Fundraising Tips Volunteer 59

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Some foundation executive directors form peer coaching circles with other Eds to help each other meet specific challenges or embrace new opportunities. By definition, leanly staffed funders are staffed by just one person or a few people. This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. .

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 92

Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

In a recent Forbes article , legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is credited with “…(using the OKR goal-setting system) to help a 30-person tech team transform into the 80,000-person gorilla known as Google”. In the OKR process, evaluation of objective success is often done on a continuum. What’s an example of an OKR?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If you share feedback or examples that make their way, I’ll certainly give you credit. That will ensure passion and impact can go into steering, knowledge can help guide the way, and if no one wants to drive you have a pretty clear answer to adoption! Normally, I make sure to clarify definitions when I start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I now spend more of my time evaluating communications and digital projects so, I read with interest Lean Analytics , the book in the Lean Start up series on measuring what matters. The principles were useful but I found it difficult to translate the case examples into concepts for the social sector.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Impact Share NTC 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. The guide provides some good diagnostic questions as well as two excellent examples of how to understand organizational culture. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation.

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Classy

JULY 7, 2021

This helps organizations meet donors where they like to give with an easier checkout experience. “ There was definitely a benefit to switching over, especially moving sooner rather than later because ACH donations can help reduce churn, and the capabilities for processing were just greatly improved. Savory Institute.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

If your organization tends to not put much strategic thought into its toolkit aside from periodically purchasing new tools, it’s definitely worth your time to get started. As you look ahead to your organization’s new year of growth and engagement, tech strategy updates should definitely be a part of the picture. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. And they are also different from large scale social movements where large numbers of people become aligned around a cause — take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as an example.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Having a better set of dilemmas is a sign of progress and growth. And that’s fine.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline.

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