Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Paying attention to contrast ratios is one of the easiest ways we can adapt our websites to be more accessible for color blind people. Make sure proper alt text is in place for images for those who need to use screen readers. It’s important to design with accessibility in mind at the outset of a project.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This tool by WebAIM checks the contrast between your foreground and background by providing ratios based on hex codes. . Remember, the contrast ratio between text and a text’s background should be at least 4.5:1. ALT text is the “copy that appears in place of an image on a webpage if the image fails to load on a user’s screen. ”

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Classy

JUNE 4, 2021

This is the prime place to surface this opportunity because donors are in the middle of already taking action to contribute to your organization. . While most matching gift companies match at a 1:1 ratio, some even match at a 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 ratio. Surface Your Matching Gift Request on Your Donation Forms. Capital Group.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When companies participate in corporate giving, they show that they’re committed to making the world a better place and upholding their company values. The concept of a matching gift is simple: An employee contributes to their nonprofit of choice, and their employer matches their donation at a predetermined ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. LinkedIn groups and company pages are a great place to encourage this type of engagement. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

BoardAssist prides itself on identifying board candidates for the nonprofit world who will be leaders on the boards where we place them. With over 90% of our placements doing just that, within a year of being placed, we can see that our placements are generating tremendous good wherever they go. The first is the months of cash ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" My ratio is 2.4,

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Both have their place and can be highly profitable. Some fundraising events are huge, drawing attendees and sponsors like moths to a flame. Other events are smaller, more intimate gatherings where guests are directly asked for money. With so many options, it can be hard to pick the right event for your situation.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations. Once in the search analytics dashboard check the Clicks and CTR metrics and then filter by Pages. For example, I’ve found placing brackets in my page title tend to increase clicks. Cost Per Impression (CPM).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos. Then…repeat!

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the most common challenges for phonathon callers is simply reaching the donor in the first place. Match ratios. Give your alumni and supporters a trusted place to find their matching gift info and guided the next steps on an easy-to-find webpage, so they can take action after speaking with your ambassadors.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Add in family and friends and the inbox has become a competitive place. If your list is under 5,000, increase the ratios to 20 percent/20 percent/60 percent. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey. Think about what’s in your inbox. Here are 3 ways: 1.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

5) Fundraising Metrics. Data derived from key fundraising metrics is great for driving decisions at an organizational level but for the sake of simplicity here are two metrics you should include on any public-facing fundraising page: Funds Raised. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track. For example, if your primary goal of a crowdfunding campaign is to raise $10,000, then you’ll know that total revenue is one of the important metrics to keep track of throughout the campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. Microsoft uses metrics like clicks and impressions, so you can easily assess your marketing progress for each campaign. .

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

If I were to put a ratio on it, I wouldnt want to exceed 30% self-promotional content to about 70% links to other things. Twitter is a component of our overall communications strategy, but not because we have specific metrics and goals in mind. Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Another part was that many nonprofits didnt have systems in place to track and allocate expenses accurately. Well, lots of places. News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Magazines like Forbes , U.S. Suddenly, they had incentive to do even worse.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Especially when so many transactions take place in one day, the last thing you want is for data to mysteriously go missing during the campaign. You may look at metrics such as: . If you’re looking for examples and a place to get started the Giving Tuesday Learning Lab on Facebook is a great place to start. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

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. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Both of us latched onto the popular notion of "third places," applying it to LAMs, and were surprised to learn how narrowly Ray Oldenburg defined the term in his original work. Eric: Unapologetically so.

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