ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With the recent pandemic, civil unrest and racism conversations front and center, nonprofit organizations are working overtime to serve communities deeply affected by these issues. On top of it all is the reality that the diversity needle has not moved much in board of directors’ positions at nonprofit organizations.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Employee retention is critical for the health of any organization, particularly for nonprofits. High retention leads to better outcomes all around as the organization saves money and develops stronger performers internally. Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role.

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Retention Management Tips Nonprofit 81

Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

The resulting data can help identify where members are in their journey, which members might be falling through the cracks, what opportunities your association can take advantage of to improve membership offerings and benefits, and so much more. Choose what works best for your association and its overarching mission and goals.

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Analytics Associations Model Metrics 169

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

As a major source of your recruitment income, sourcing and securing new members for your organization is a top priority. Marketing campaigns dedicated to membership recruitment can help you build brand recognition, reach the right audience, and grow your networking opportunities — increasing your membership’s value in the process.

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Organization Online Influence Metrics 52

Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. This information can help inform their own ad campaigns and identify opportunities for differentiation. How Should Nonprofits Use Ad Libraries?

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Library Influence Demographics Nonprofit 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. These assets can cut expenses for your organization.).

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Goal Fundraising Pledge ROI 299

Nimble AMS

JUNE 2, 2023

Your organization is about to begin the search for new a ssociation m anagement software (AMS). Perhaps you are working with an outside consultant to help you through the process. Your consultant may even have a scorecard to help you to measure one AMS against another. Read reviews. Review vendor case studies.

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Associations Software Management Case Study 129

fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Data quality is essential for organizations and membership associations. When we help organizations with implementing and configuring Salesforce, our mantra is this: you get out of Salesforce what you put in. Understand and streamline your data with the help of a tailored integration hub.

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Data Organization Org Database 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

I think that is an important insight for small organizations who don’t have a team of people doing the social media and trying to do it with limited hours in the day. Those decisions are implemented across the organization’s web properties and social channels. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content?

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101

sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Reviewing and amending your questions can also help you get better and more consistent answers, which can make your review process easier and more effective. As a grantmaker, questions are your tools.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. When we keep in mind the true meaning of the impact, in all its forms, it helps us discover what’s important when measuring it. Measuring impact. goals, measure them!

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Measure Communication Impact Evaluation 66

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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Org Raise Tools Help 81

Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Learn more Measure program outcomes in real time Built-in reporting Bonterra’s native reporting tool empowers grants administrators to measure program outcomes, not just outputs. Confidently manage risk with customized user permissions, air-tight organization vetting, and audit trails.

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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. The next step in using this framework has been to established quantifiable measures – which allows organizations to see progress.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.” Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. Answering these two questions is important to us at the Accelerator. But this was left as an unexamined assumption.

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Results Program Build Help 94

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Be Informed.

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 336

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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Demographics Lesson Action Data 116

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

How can your organization reverse this concerning trend? Continue reading to learn how your association can adopt its own data governance policy and become a more data-driven organization. A set of rules, metrics, or policies established by an organization to bring clarity and ease of use to data practices is a data governance policy.

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Policy Government Adopt Associations 117

sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The application process is an organization’s first real look at how you work with grantees. It’s also your chance as a foundation to see if this organization is a good fit for your program. Organization Background and Experience. Financial Health of the Nonprofit Organization. Measurement Plan. Program Description.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It will help you stay organized by planning your content in advance, without being overwhelmed by last-minute deadlines. A social media content calendar will help you to stay on track by planning ahead what you need to post and when. By creating content for those days, it will help to increase your reach and engagement.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Statement of Activities—commonly referred to as an SOA—is one of four essential financial statements for nonprofit organizations. Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues. It offers a comprehensive overview of revenue and expenses over a specific timeframe.

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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. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. After the data is collected, organize the information into similar categories (i.e.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Below, I’ll break down the basics and share my four top donor personas that will help get you started. . The reason we start this process with a goal is that you’ll have no way to measure the efficacy of your efforts without one. . Review your donor list. Donor Journey Mapping Basic Steps. Start with a goal.

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Donor Effective Fundraising Map 283

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Organizations that solely offer courses will want to deploy the Learning Management package. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. It can also measure the success of related product sales such as e-book, video recordings, and exams. This is real knowledge!

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Learning Management Associations Data Learning 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David La Piana has been a long-time consultant to scores of nonprofits as well as with the OE program, helping nonprofits develop strategic plans. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. Did the organization make decisions? How will they measure success?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 29, 2020

While it might seem contrary to the type of organizations nonprofits are, they must earn some money to fund the good work they hope will be sustainable community solutions. Social enterprises, however, could help solve this problem. As your enterprise is founded and starts to grow, you’ll need to be able to measure your success.

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Issue Community Create Help 52

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

As leaders of nonprofits, we have the power to create the perfect formula for innovation within our organizations. It all starts with your organization’s mission statement. Nonprofits must have a clear and compelling mission statement that states the organization’s reason for being. So where are all the good ideas?

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Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

The authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Our organizations aren’t. Human beings are creative.

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People Create Organization Headline 52

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). We realize that some of the most impactful work is being done by organizations HF might not know about.

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Philanthropy Proposal Application Metrics 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact, sustainability and for-profit-for-good organizations and causes. In fact, when organizations lump the discovery and build together, they actually can INCREASE cost.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. I also referenced the report in my latest presentation slides about social media use by individuals in nonprofit organizations.). Report Highlights.

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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

Blue Avocado

MARCH 12, 2024

Tips for reviewing your nonprofit’s grant prospects. Grant funding is great, but often comes with requirements such as financial tracking of the award, measuring the program, reporting to the funder, and more — so look before you leap ! You have to know what is the best fit for your organization in terms of seeking them out as well.

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Grant Award Fundraising Fund 92

Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Defining and measuring impact is a tough nut to crack. In addition to thinking about “mushy” or qualitative complex concepts, the mission-driven industry has no set rules, so approaches and terminology can differ majorly from one organization to another, making communication and collaboration more difficult.

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Challenge Impact Measure Review 58

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Keep reading this Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits to learn what makes accounting for nonprofits unique and get tips on choosing the best accounting software for your organization. Churches and faith-based organizations also fall under the category of nonprofits. How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different?

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Software Guide Award Grant 291