The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the best storytelling tips I can give you is to set yourself up for measurement success from the very beginning. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success. Here’s a few examples: Telling a story in.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

Data provides actionable insights and can give associations a navigable path to make better informed business decisions. SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. Most often, you’ll use at least one measurement.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

For example, “write a 100-word fundraising appeal email for high-value corporate donors” is a much better prompt than “write a fundraising appeal.” We’ll show an example of this in the next section. For more best practices and examples, take a look at our instructional guide for prompting ChatGPT.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here are 4 ways to measure volunteer program ROI and ensure you are getting the highest amount of value. As your nonprofit grows, so does the need to optimize your volunteer program and effectively measure ROI. Measure Volunteer Value. Measure Community Reach. You can easily measure by comparing inputs and outputs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! DIY Community Engagement Metrics. I’ve listed some examples to get you started, but really think about all the various pieces of content you have. Metrics Tracking. >>

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. One example of thought leadership is this blog!

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Specifically, donor giving patterns can reveal insights about how to best reach donors across multiple platforms and secure their long-term support. Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’ll also be sharing the important metrics you need to keep an eye on to measure your performance. Making it a monthly occurrence gives your members a reason to hit your follow button. How to Measure Your Success Developing your social media presence as a membership engagement strategy can be measured via engagement metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Coordinating these channels cohesively – for example, telling one community member’s personal story over email, social media, and direct mail – promotes consistent messaging that reinforces the nonprofit’s brand in the supporter’s mind. Define your metrics of success. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Establishing regular meetings or processes for metrics review helps position us to learn from the data we’re collecting and be better positioned to identify opportunities to improve. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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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. Some examples include: Data specific – What data empowers you? An example is how many new members did we acquire last month? What limits you? What do you think about our data?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 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. 3) Choose your budget and schedule.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . That which gets measured gets done!

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you launch a campaign to spread awareness of your hair salon right after you open, you might link to a page that details all of the services you offer in each of your emails and social media posts. Because 60% of website traffic comes from mobile devices, it’s crucial to give these mobile users a positive experience.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. For example, at the highest level, your goals might be to: Grow your existing online community . TIP: These are examples of high-level goals. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. What I’m really enjoying is reading the blog posts that nonprofit tech colleagues have shared their thinking about the ladder of engagement and how to measure along it.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Give your project an easily identifiable name, such as Fund Accounting Software Implementation. For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative. Goals and Metrics What does success look like? out of scope).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes. 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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. That’s good news for you because it also gives you a set of guiding principles on which you can base your board communication.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

With Giving Tuesday and the end-of-year giving season fast approaching, your nonprofit is likely ramping up efforts to reach its annual fundraising goals. Keep an eye on your metrics. Give your nonprofit more chances to interact with donors by asking every existing donor to opt in to receive texts from your organization.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Examples of campaign objectives and goals include: Building awareness of your nonprofit by increasing new website visitors by 20% in six months. Step 5: Launch, measure, and optimize It is time to launch your communications campaign.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

When trained properly, data processing AI tools can improve your nonprofit’s fundraising effectiveness by allowing you to focus more of your attention on donors with a high giving capacity and likelihood of long-term involvement. The subject lines should be targeted toward an occasional donor, a monthly donor, and an annual donor.”

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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.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. How to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy There are several ways to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Be open to making changes to your branding as needed.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Assess your supporter data for general demographics, interests, and giving tendencies to get a better picture of the kinds of individuals who want to support your nonprofit. For example, Kanopi’s guide advises that you incorporate multimedia elements to break up text blocks and provide visitors with multiple ways to engage with your site.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Example: “To raise critical funds through a community gala to support our after-school literacy program for underprivileged children.” ” Goals: Establish specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for your fundraising plan. These goals should be both financial (e.g.,

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s an important metric that will help you gauge how effectively you’re engaging new supporters, and it can also give you insight into which of your fundraising and marketing campaigns are most effective. One valuable metric will be your donor acquisition rate for the month of December. Do you set donor acquisition goals?

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Do they really give you the full picture of how your organization is connecting with your constituents and moving them up the engagement ladder? That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Don''t just rely on tools and expect them to give you the full picture.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That’s why we put together a list of the five essential metrics you need to know, as a fundraiser, to achieve higher retention rates. Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. Frequency of Engagement.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly. Stay aligned on what success means for your campaign by tracking and sharing engagement metrics with them.

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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. According to Giving USA 2023 , mega-gift amounts are growing significantly, reaching $13.96 For example, economic downturns may mean that your major donors will not be able to give as much this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Mission-Driven Product Examples Products can be websites, but not all websites are products. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Measurable: Ensure your goal is measurable to track progress and success. This might include reaching a certain fundraising amount or achieving specific metrics like email open rates or donation page conversions. You’ll see that we noted a few non-financial goals in our examples. You have two donors. You can help!

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