Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT. This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. To fortify fundraising and impact strategies, embracing emerging technologies is paramount.

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Digital Strategy Guide Create 296

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement. Technology!

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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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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations. Tracking Long-Term Impact True success for your learning programs can be found by evaluating their long-term impact.

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Analytics Education Program Impact 169

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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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One organization's efforts to bring you a catalog of tools to track your impact in the field. Data ICT program evaluation Program' Thanks, team. What if nonprofits and social enterprises had an affordable way to report real-time, large-scale data on their social impact?

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Impact Tools Measure Organization 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable. Elizabeth R.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Pick your favorite tool and create tasks with due dates, details, and assignments for your team.

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Communication Campaign Channel Measure 98

sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. Barriers to Email Measurement Keep Rising Measuring email performance has changed, and it continues to become more difficult.

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Benchmark Blackbaud Report Online 77

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. What To Ask as You Review Your Questions To help you evaluate and improve your application, here are seven questions to ask yourself as you review each question.

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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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Evaluation Network Effective Case Study 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Measure Ethiopia Summary Nonprofit 102

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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Evaluation Service Measure Database 64

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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Measure Social Media Media Map 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

If you are a grantor you may need additional tools to handle the application, award, and post-award processes. To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options.

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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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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

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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Measure Track Model Seattle 99

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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Help Retention Tips Template 269

Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Data Support Demographics Evaluation 59

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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Grant Management Award Evaluation 52

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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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

By now you’ve probably heard that short-form video on social media is an important tool for reaching new and younger audiences. The measurements of success for our experiment included:* Engagement (e.g., We used our existing Instagram account , though prior to this effort, we had rarely used the Reels feature.

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Video Social Media Evaluation Audience 140

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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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

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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Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

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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Social Media Measure Media Social 88

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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Tools Digital Method Product 52

VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

Yet, a PIP is should not be used as a standard training assessment, nor should it be used for regular evaluations. For standard evaluations or leadership development, other tools are useful—such as VQ’s Individual Volunteer Plan (IVP). To implement it, simply follow these steps. Be specific with timeline and expectations.

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Evaluation Volunteer Training Train 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

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. The Board should also be involved in planning for accountability and evaluation of the strategic plan once it’s implemented.

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Roles Director Evaluation Government 116

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. Define, measure, and evaluate your organization’s outcome strategies all in one place.

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Nonprofit Application Integration Grant 52

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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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review three ways your fundraising software can help your nonprofit maintain compliance: Activity data Donation tracking Volunteer tools Fundraising events of all types require careful data tracking, but donations made at an auction are especially complex to manage and record.

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Software Fundraising Files Nonprofit 97

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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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) measures ROI. He helps organizations identify specific, measurable objectives and reach them using data-driven digital communications.

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 236

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The ROI Methodology was implemented globally in the 1990s and since then has become one of the most used evaluation systems in the world, as it is used routinely in more than 6,000 organizations in 70 countries. This new book describes six easy steps to measure and improve the success of any project, program, initiative, or work that you do.

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Work ROI Law Project 63

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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Metrics Nonprofit Profile Platform 261