TechImpact

MARCH 13, 2014

Understanding how the metrics below relate to your nonprofit will help you discern which demographics to target during your next donation campaign. Pay attention to these statistics when evaluating who your loyal donors are. Previous giving to your nonprofits. This can be broken down into 3 sections.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Recruit two new sponsors for our signature event by Aug. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. Check your metrics, focusing on overall numbers and growth. What’s working? What’s not working?

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

The top 50 organizations outperformed the also-rans on a variety of metrics, as they have in the 13 years this study has been conducted (not a surprise). Across the board within the 2021 study, which evaluated employee attitudes during 2020, the data revealed high-water marks in employee satisfaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Help disseminate news releases or produce news events to get coverage. Perhaps you can individually evaluate the way the organization pays vendors or contractors and see if there are efficiencies to be found. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”).

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 344

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Feedback & Evaluation Benefits Don’t be confused: We’re not saying that you should offer to evaluate your members for free. Let’s get at it! Essential Membership Benefits These are the most important benefits nonprofits and associations can offer their members.

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Benefit Associations Nonprofit Grant 52

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Cybersecurity News reports that: “Cybercrime has increased by 600% since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Culture, strategy, and talent play important roles.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

Assess your goals for the platform, re-evaluate why you’re there, and decide if it still makes sense to actively use your Twitter account. Look at your data Evaluate your Twitter metrics to see how much the recent changes at Twitter have impacted the number of followers you have, how often people see your content, and how engaged users are.

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Government Twitter Social Media New York 50

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. How to Measure Success.

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Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

With the rise of social impact as a business metric, companies are more eager than ever to contribute to meaningful causes, yet many nonprofits don’t make the most of this fundraising avenue. However, the good news is that most businesses donate goods or services without expecting charitable deduction benefits.

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Benefit Donation Sponsor Gift 57

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. The good news is that you’re reaching out to people you’ve researched and who you’ve determined are interested in helping your mission. Identify prospective major donors based on wealth and engagement metrics. We often hear from fundraisers that they feel awkward making such an ask.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 97

Kindful

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The good news is that there are two things you can do to help the donors you’ve acquired become long-term givers and shorten the time it takes to make up the investment of acquiring them. New relationships take time to nurture, and during that time, you’re working to get to know each other better and build a deeper connection.

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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. This strikes me as a metric that would be easier to compute and apply for some projects or programs and a real bear for others.

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San Francisco Organization Kiva Metrics 104

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2015

The good news is that you have plenty of time to fix it for next year. Once your campaign is out the door, it’s time to start checking your metrics to see how you measure up. Here’s a checklist for metrics: Open Rate – median open rate for an email is 15%. Evaluate your Subject Line.

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Campaign Fundraising Evaluation Metrics 20

Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

When your members are looking to interact with your association, look for news updates, or find programming information, the first place they’ll likely stop is your website. Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Let’s get started.

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Associations Database Integration Software 52

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. This means evaluating our social media objectives beyond content creation and campaigns and considering issues such as harassment, data privacy, surveillance, and accessibility.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.” Learning and Metrics.

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Social Media Train Training Network 97

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Inform donors of breaking news and/or problems as soon as possible. . Establish clear success metrics. Setting key performance indicators (KPIs) around customer service lets employees know you’re evaluating performance objectively. . A helper, not a hinderer. . It’s helpful to: Inform donors how their gift was used.

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Donor Strategy Retention Relationship 141

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Establish the most important knowledge to obtain for improving your personnel and workforce as a whole and determine how those metrics would look, then implement them directly in your program. Beyond Return on Investment figures, professionals everywhere can evaluate the true reach and effectiveness of their learning programs.

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Learning Organization Statistics Cleveland 61

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Websites like Philanthropy News Digest and RFP Database host RFPs from a wide variety of organizations, all with unique needs, and vendors with varying specialties are combing through them looking for projects they can hit out of the park. Here at EveryAction, we're big fans of success metrics.

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Template Free Proposal Nonprofit 41

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

To the extent that Facebook users respond to your invitations to share news or donation opportunities with their friends, family, and coworkers, you will have effectively created meaningful opportunities for people to serve as amplifiers and participants in your work. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Facebook Money Raise Strategy 99

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Bringing together statistics from reputable sources across the sector, it gives you the metrics you need to see the full picture of the philanthropic sector and move your organization forward, all in one easy-to-find location. 2016 NGO Online Technology Report.

Professional 20

Professional Causes NGO News 20

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

The great news is that you don't need to. Use metrics, and when you can't, stay rigorous. These kinds of clear metrics aren't always possible for nonprofits; however, establishing clear objectives for measuring success is just as important to nonprofits. Join the open source culture. Conclusion.

Marketing 40

Marketing Nonprofit Open Source Museum 40

Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

Good timing (riding news cycles, sending urgent appeals tied to a deadline, piggy-backing on related moments of opportunity). Ensuring that your whole team - often including the board - is invested in, and fully understanding, the key performance metrics involved. Optimized email formatting and landing pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

A pile of news clips makes a gratifying sound when dropped on a conference table, but did those stories reach the right people, did they say the right thing? The social media revolution has made it possible to count dozens of new indicators that don’t necessarily demonstrate impact. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Twitt(url)y.

Donation 50

Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What are the most important website metrics to measure? The metrics should follow those goals. These metrics can add color, but page views aren’t the story. Allison: It depends.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This is a facebook page where many organizations across the environment, climate and animal welfare sectors came together to share news, updates, action alerts, and much more after the BP Oil Spill. Look first at your organizational metrics. How do you evaluate your programs and services? How do we move away from slacktivism?

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Build Community Technology Action 220

See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

So while we don’t yet have all the metrics we need to show that video will actually improve/increase fundraising online, we know that this is the content people are gravitating towards. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Join the Video Bandwagon [.]

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Video YouTube FAQ Metrics 40

Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. Once you’ve taken stock of all of your organizations social channels, evaluating your messaging strategy is a great next step. Exp: news articles, user generated content, etc.) .

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Social Media Media Hints Social 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

What metrics are you using for mobile? Our website , is the hub for all in-depth information and news. But we can’t rely on people to come to our site wondering what’s new, or to find us by chance. We’ll then evaluate if it’s something we should include in a future release. How will you measure success?

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Mobile Integration Strategy Green 111

Care2

MARCH 25, 2009

In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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Benchmark Convio Studies Marketing 31

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

The good news is that anyone can develop a marketing strategy anchored in first-party data. Measure metrics that matter. First, are the metrics you’re using to evaluate success connected to reaching your goals and objectives? Here’s a framework with a few tips to help you get started.

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Action Change Metrics Measure 106

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Webstats are, of course, important, both as an internal metric to watch, analyze, and improve, and for that matter, to put out there, in conjunction with lots of other data. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

We hired a research team from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication to design the evaluation metrics for the project. Philly, Philadelphia City Paper, The Philadelphia Citizen, The Temple News and Philly Mag. It was an incredibly moving experience for all of us. Celebrate Your Accomplishments.

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Arts Public Philadelphia Artist 20

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I was presenting on the way we can identify metrics in social media that help us reach our mission and how to use those metrics strategically. I have done a few webinars and presentations about social media tracking and metrics and frequently used the phrase “actionable data.” Step 3: Acting on Strategic Data.

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Social Media Media Help Metrics 240

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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Convio Benchmark Studies Social Media 31