TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Big data and robust analytic measuring tools have enabled this revolution to go from a pipe dream to reality in only a few short years. Everyone wants to compare the success of their organization to a measurable analytic. Here are the 3 steps your nonprofit needs to get started measuring and reporting on meaningful data today.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

On March 13, 2022, Meme Styles, president and founder of MEASURE , joined Candid CEO Ann Mei on the stage at SXSW for their talk: Using Data to Advance Racial Equity ( available to watch now on YouTube ). Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” Think about what metrics you will use.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. There are many marketing technology tools that can help you measure success. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. How are you tracking success?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising? This is where your social media engagement rates come in.

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TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

Post level data reports on the analytic behind individual posts on a page, whereas page level data measures the impact as post has on the entire page. The post Better Understanding Nonprofits And Their Facebook Metrics appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Luckily, Tech Impact is here to help.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Measuring volunteer impact benefits more that your program: it empowers YOU. Your most powerful strategy requires getting serious about metrics. All businesses and organizations are governed by them, even when they talk about mission and values, the metrics behind the rhetoric matter.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Without a stringent SLA in place, vendors will have little to no incentive to provide your nonprofit with a high level of performance. Depending on what your nonprofit’s needs, ensuring that your server images are persistent in case of failure may be an important measure to consider when selecting a vendor.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Next, you’ll want to focus on the metrics side of your formula, ensuring your values are measurable. Consider the frequency of the member activities, how many dollars you spend, or the rates compared to peers to get measurable data before start assigning values. However, you don’t need to measure everything.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But, if you don’t have a membership engagement strategy in place to engage and retain them, you’ll end up losing members just as fast as you can acquire them. Today, we’re going to be discussing steps you can take to put these strategies in place. Impressions are nice for measuring awareness but they’re too broad to measure engagement.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The future of grantmaking doesn’t lie in simply collecting data, but in harnessing its transformative power to drive a more impactful and measurable social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Research from Community Brands consistently shows that members place high value on networking and staying up to date on industry news, trends, and regulations. Goals and success metrics. 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

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Checking in at a place. His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along. Photo by lecercle. Why the heck should I even care?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Start with a simple self-assessment to understand where you and your organization fall along the impact maturity scale: what tools and processes do you already have in place? These metrics should measure what really matters rather than simply what is possible or easy to track. What works and what doesn’t? Data access. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Does it have pre-built dashboards with nonprofit metrics that are important for each persona at your organization and important for board members. Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” ”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2012

“ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change ,” co-authored with KD Paine is getting into people’s hands! Keynote at E-Metrics Conference. Stay tuned for details about virtual events taking place and events taking place in November and December. Boston/Oct. Book Sellers Cafe.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. For your fund accounting implementation , your goals might include a target launch date, staff training, and the ability to pull relevant reports faster.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. If you have a goal system in place, make sure to regularly revisit it. It’s also objectively measurable through concrete KPIs. Plus, as a manager in a nonprofit, retention is a key component of your job.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Unless you understand the concept of lifetime donor value and put in place strategies to maximize that, you’ll spin your wheels and potentially leave a lot of money on the table. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. That which gets measured gets done!

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it. Analyze your short and long-term returns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Measurement Challenges.

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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 because they define the nonprofit’s purpose in the first place. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the heart of fundraising are the supporters who believe in your cause and want to place their trust, and dollars, into your organization to make a change in the world. Work with the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that your goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound). The good news?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? When you set marketing systems in place, they don’t always work together like they should. Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. What’s working? Is it engaging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

When will this change go into place? The long answer: open rate has always been just one of many metrics we track, and the reliance on image downloads has made this number a little squishy. Sometime this fall, whenever iOS15 is rolled out. Who does it affect?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

By investing in getting to know who your volunteers are and what motivates them to donate their time and effort to your organization, you can ensure that they are placed in a role where they will thrive. How are you measuring volunteer engagement? Metrics matter! Online surveys are convenient for everyone!

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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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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Marketing is all about meeting your target audience where they are, meaning there’s no better place to launch your marketing efforts than online. Stay aligned on what success means for your campaign by tracking and sharing engagement metrics with them.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Therefore, when we create a media campaign , we always have a plan in place to measure paid media ROI (return on investment) and the success of every dollar invested. This is when a campaign’s KPIs will tie directly back to the campaign investment to measure the paid media ROI. What is Paid Media and Paid Media ROI?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Someone asked Tara a question about measuring Whuffie or influence. Her response: This is one of the biggest reasons I don’t like to measure Whuffie. The measure needs to be in the impact. In October, I was placed on the Twitter Recommended User list along with a handful of other nonprofit and philanthropy Twitter users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes. They can gather information from different places and put it all together, saving you time and energy.

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