Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The Playbook gives you an examples. Meaning Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. You can also avoid asking for information that you don’t need or use, which can save time and resources for both you and your grantees. Why Change Up Your Questions?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time. Which assets are most of our partners leveraging and finding value in?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Clearly explain the purpose and benefits of AI tools. Clearly explain the purpose of AI tools. Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Pre-Award Stage Generating Grant Guidelines Developing grant guidelines requires creating a comprehensive outline of the grant’s objectives, eligibility requirements, application procedure, and evaluation metrics. This evaluation measures the program’s efficacy and the grantee’s ability to achieve the proposed objectives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. Recommended resource: How to conduct a content inventory and audit. It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. Content to be rewritten.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I will work through all of them over the next week or so but the list that will keep growing is the one of insights and new ideas I gained from hearing fellow participants share their knowledge, experiences, and tools. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Ensure Adequate Resources Board members should want your organization to succeed! A Board has to provide foresight, oversight, and insight.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Here are the top three grantmaking tools to use in place of foundationConnect: Track, manage, and deliver funding programs — all in one place Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is designed to maximize your impact. Without capable resources, this could be a high-maintenance project, and a costly long-term option.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement. Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

training, coaching, job aids, or other resources) designed to achieve it, while also outlining the steps to be taken, timeline, and accountability process. Yet, a PIP is should not be used as a standard training assessment, nor should it be used for regular evaluations. To implement it, simply follow these steps.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2023

Despite these, organizations in the nonprofit sector tend not to be at the forefront of devoting significant effort or resources to cybersecurity. Eight cybersecurity strategies Following are eight cybersecurity measures nonprofit web managers can adopt to help protect their websites and stay ahead of new threats. Limit user access.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2017

A recent NetSquared London Meetup investigated the IT tools that can be used to get nonprofit operations done cheaply and effectively. Matt Moorut from Technology Trust kicked things off by noting, from his own experience and from working with others, that it's often difficult for nonprofits to get organizational support for new tools.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A product, whether in the for-profit, nonprofit, or government sector, is a powerful tool that delivers a valuable service to a specific audience. City Health Dashboard NYU’s Langone Health’s Department of Population Health developed the City Health Dashboard to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that foundations possess the potential to offer more than just monetary resources. Here are a few ways foundations can build on their role as community leaders: Capacity Building: Financial resources alone are often insufficient for grantees to achieve their missions.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

A donation drive is a purposeful and organized effort to mobilize individuals, communities, or businesses to contribute resources, typically in the form of monetary funds, goods, or services, towards a specific cause or charitable organization. Diversifying Revenue Streams Relying solely on grants or individual donations can be risky.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Offer a skills testing assessment to measure a candidate’s capabilities.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Offer a skills testing assessment to measure a candidate’s capabilities.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tools – What tools do you have? What tools do you require? Strategic alignment – implementing standardized KPI dashboards across your organization helps ensure all of your departments are measuring progress and that their goals ladder up to your organization’s strategic goals. Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post. Measuring is how you decide which is which.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Your nonprofit’s brand is an important tool for communicating your mission to supporters and earning their trust. You’ll need to dedicate time and resources to the rebrand process. Before beginning a full rebrand, it’s worth evaluating why your nonprofit is considering this in the first place.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

AI tools for fundraising When it comes to AI for fundraising, there are many tools that can help you succeed in your mission. Some fundraising software, such as Qgiv and DonorSearch, offer AI tools to help you with your fundraising strategy without leaving their platform. AI-enhanced editing tools. Other chatbot AI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

When evaluating CRM software for your nonprofit, you need to look for these five key differentiators: 1) Importance of Platform. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cybersecurity is the proactive approach you take to identify any vulnerable points, implement simple protective measures, and effectively respond to potential attacks. If you’re operating with limited resources, IT support might not seem like the biggest priority for you cost-wise. Why do nonprofits need to worry about cybersecurity?

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Your nonprofit must know the right safety features to look for when evaluating your CRM or looking for a new one. Consider the following security measures to ensure you invest in secure software: PCI certification: If your CRM offers a payment processor, check to see if it’s PCI-certified. But what does secure software look like?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Modern CRM reporting is crucial for several reasons, namely because the right reports will help you: Evaluate performance: Get a bird’s-eye view of your organization’s fundraising efficacy by analyzing key metrics like donation amounts, donor engagement, and campaign success. My Dad’s axiom rings true, “ you get what you pay for.”

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

However, it is important to remember that the software is a tool. Investing in Resources is Key to Getting the Most Out of Salesforce. The second key tip that customers have reported is the importance of investing in resources — whether that’s staff, training, time, or consultants. About the Author. Julia Cosgrove.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To make it easier, we’ve organized the components of a nonprofit business plan into three categories based on your responsibilities: Board Support and Guidance Vision and Values Alignment Financial and Resource Planning Executive Summary: A brief overview of the nonprofit’s mission, goals, and strategies. 1-5) or as a percentage.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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