Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. or “Love it!”

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Because of the pervasiveness of color blindness, and to help those who live with it get through their day to day tasks with less issues, consider creating high contrast visuals and presentations that don’t heavily require color recognition to convey the information. . Color blindness and the web. One such example tool for this is Accessibe.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Sales Ops Best Practices. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Sales Operations Process.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

Here are a few tried-and-true best practices to follow: Promote matching gifts throughout your nonprofit website. Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. And for those who were already going to make a gift, matching gift information can drive them to secure a corporate donation from their employer. Match ratios.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. I''d like to take a closer look at one aspect of our research and organizational practice: technology staffing levels. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric. FTE tech staff for your team is keeping up.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

They see the information about a gala event that your organization is hosting at the local aquarium. When your nonprofit’s website content is out of date, your audience won’t be able to find the information they need to get involved. Make sure your donation form is updated with the latest, most relevant campaign information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Using this framework, here are some of the major updates we’ve made: Enhanced presentation and clarity of information. We begin with a summary and then group your information into three categories: Programs and Results . This structure ensures that decision makers get the most important information about nonprofits quickly and easily.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Practice with mock calls. Keep an eye on trends in employer information. Practice with mock calls. Practice: Have your callers pair up and do trial runs on a few matching gift companies. Second, append relevant information to your file. Give your callers the information they need to have the biggest impact.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One way for corporations to practice philanthropy is workplace giving, which relies on employee participation: Workplace giving is an employer-sponsored giving program that helps employees contribute to charitable causes. Simply determine a match ratio, such as 1:1 or 2:1, and donate as the requests come in!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Or the one that’s easiest to organize and promote, practically selling itself? Be sure to include basic information about who your nonprofit serves and how lives are being changed. With so many options, it can be hard to pick the right event for your situation. NOTE: PLEASE check into the legalities of offering alcohol.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. However, increasingly nonprofits are moving to the practice of outcome evaluation.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. There are undoubtedly for-profit business practices that we in the charity world use every day to the benefit of our employees and missions. Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When corporate partners share information about your nonprofit with their customers and employees, they can introduce your mission to a wider audience of potential new supporters. Most businesses match at a 1:1 ratio, but some will match at a 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 proportion. Looking for more fundraising best practices?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Metrics, metrics, metrics. Retweet you?

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Read on to learn more about nonprofit transparency best practices! Not only is public financial disclosure considered a nonprofit transparency best practice (and may be legally required), but it directly impacts your organization’s ability to communicate its mission, values, and financial health to relevant stakeholders.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Capture donor information in your donor database. When donors give online, you can capture their personal information and save it to your donor database.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Capture donor information in your donor database. When donors give online, you can capture their personal information and save it to your donor database.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. For more information on how to best leverage and market your content, check this out. 5) Fundraising Metrics. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised. Consider this. spamming) their inbox.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Microsoft Ad Grant categorizes information based on what potential supporters are searching for. Ticket sales, donations, petition signatures, and email list registrations are all metrics you can use to measure your nonprofit’s marketing progress. These metrics are key indicators of your nonprofit’s success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. So, what kinds of information, if not outcomes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I was curious about what I could learn if I did an informal benchmark study of a few nonprofit Pinterest users. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. The ratio is the total number of repins divided by total pins.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In practical terms, creating a lead magnet involves providing potential donors with something valuable that resonates with their interests and needs. Instead, you’re trying to convey that you can share valuable knowledge and expertise in an informative format to assist people. Email #3: Share additional helpful ideas within the email.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

For more information about determining the part that Giving Tuesday should play in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, check out Bloomerang’s webinar: Don’t Treat Giving Tuesday Like a Hail Mary. For additional information about how to leverage social media for Giving Tuesday, check out Bloomerang’s webinar on the subject.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. However there is immediate value to the partners in the form of a dashboard and metrics for applying for grants, etc. org blog a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" I think this statement still holds true, although with more people thinking about ROI and Social Media, practice is evolving. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. What does that mean?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. They demand proof of concept and access to information when and where they want it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. When there are no rules, policies, best practices or missions, you can SAY that your space is for everyone, but you can't enforce it.

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