Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most valuable assets that any nonprofit can have is consistent marketing and paid advertising data—this is especially true in the midst of a major crisis or shift that deeply impacts society, like tough financial times or global events. It may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s also the best time to take strategic risks.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Simon Sinek A colleague recently referred to the time before the pandemic as “innocent.” This uncertainty prompted me to invite two of the most visionary people I know to spend time with me on my podcast considering the future of the association industry. Sharon offered an idea that has been on my mind for some time.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

For communicators who would rather write sentences than algorithms, finding the phrases that will viralize your posts seems like a New York Times word game gone wrong. AI, your new marketing assistant, is happy to help. If AI could only help me with one thing, search engine optimization or SEO, would be at the top of my list.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results. Contact us at any time to speak with one of our data-loving experts.

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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. We’ll use sharing a story in social media posts as our example.

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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. Finally, you’ll want to consider the time decay of your offered activities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

What Metrics to Review When Analyzing Your Campaign Your campaign(s) up and running, it’s time to assess whether your campaign is performing up to par. After a week, review the following data points: 1) CTR (Click-Through-Rate): The CTR is the number of times your ad is clicked on after it is visible on the SERP (search engine results page).

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Association Analytics

MAY 4, 2023

Having this knowledge not only makes you better in your current role, but it will also help significantly when advancement opportunities arise. Having strong knowledge of analytics can help you better understand what drives membership engagement , retention , and growth. Are you in marketing? Membership?

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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. Again, remember to measure the results of these thought leadership efforts by measuring the engagement with the resources you produce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. Details really matter, which is why it’s helpful to mention how the contribution was, or will be, allocated. 2) Give social media shoutouts. Nothing feels better than that.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Impact,” “results,” and “outcomes” all refer to evidence that your program is effective and will be used interchangeably here.) How are you measuring progress? Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you. But what do funders want to see, and how can you convey program impact in a compelling way?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It will also help them build better relationships with major donors and their broader donor base. Predictive analytics helps organizations expect donor behavior. AI tools help organizations find the best fundraising targets. They also help tailor campaigns to specific donor segments.

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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. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

It will take time and effort and care. Her team of advisors helps her give her wealth away faster. Her team’s focus has been on “identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results. The post 5 Tips To Help Your Nonprofit Receive MacKenzie Scott Funds appeared first on Bloomerang.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

It’s the middle of the year, and although many of you still haven’t even taken summer vacation, the time has arrived to begin planning for your 2024 state legislative campaigns. This is the time to answer questions like: What states will we be targeting? He can be reached at Brian@RubensteinImpact.com.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Through her work with clients like the Wildlife Conservation Society and her love of (math) problem solving, Amy has picked up a lot of wisdom + I wanted to better understand her process for approaching a social media campaign and measuring its efficacy. Measuring beyond "likes". Goal: Awareness Metric: Total Reach/Impressions.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Read time: 2 minutes. This is your chance to contribute, and to gain a better understanding of your own results and context. In addition to helping make the study, you’ll receive an individualized analysis comparing the data you submitted for your organization to other organizations of your size and type. That’s the destination.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. This feedback will help you make informed decisions about course improvements, instructor selection, and program enhancements so you can continuously improve your learning experience.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Central Time on Thursday, September 5, 2024. times the original plan. We wanted to hear how they would solve a critical problem of our time.” As a result of the competition’s success, we created Lever for Change to replicate the competition model for other funders and, in just five years, we have influenced more than $2.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Leave the game of chance for another time. Or how they’re landing on your donation page? Tell me all about attribution.

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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. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focuss group and contributed many of the case studies.

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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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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The key here is to communicate that your donors and supporters have a critical role to play in helping address that struggle—and that by supporting your mission, the struggle can be resolved. First, take the time to consider how your audience experiences the world. That means you need to get creative about how you frame the struggle.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

You’ll be able to leverage the popularity of these networks to help you recruit new members to your organization. Research can often help you decide which ones you want to target. It can often help to look at some of your competitors to see how they’re performing. 7) Measure your social media engagement.

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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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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. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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TechImpact

JUNE 4, 2014

adopting this mindset, however, is often times more difficult than most imagine. Additionally, understanding what benefits will come as a result of this change in thought process is sometimes difficult to comprehend as well. So why is it often times ignored when dealing with volunteer management? Better organization.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

How have we helped to change their lives for the better? From there I dug in to learn as much as I could about outcomes measurement and results from consultants, think tanks and other leaders in the field. What did I learn about outcomes and measuring results in those early days?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

During similar global crises, humanity responded with generosity, donating money or time to help others. We all wanted to cry, show our pain, and offer a way to help. . Imagine a dollar transforming itself into justice or help, instantly and magically. For instance, fear now influences social interactions.

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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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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. So, that means I need the right database and technology to prove the work and results." But in order for outcomes to show, I need the data.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Ask any nonprofit fundraiser if he or she wants to increase the results of their fundraising efforts and you’ll get a resounding “yes”! Where am I going to find the time and resources? Below, I’ll break down the basics and share my four top donor personas that will help get you started. . The next question, of course, is how?

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