Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. Doing so is critical when you consider Gallup’s research of a few years ago that found that one-third of Americans have shown signs of clinical anxiety or depression.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

42 Newton ratio. But if you want to learn more about these kinds of videos and how to spin that content into tangible metrics that you can use to inform your marketing strategy and make more money, check out our webinar on using video strategically by our Director of Client Solutions, Doug Coombs. Can you tell I know cars?).

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

This should include: Minimum and maximum donation amounts Matching gift ratios Types of qualifying employees Types of qualifying nonprofits Submission deadlines And more! Some matching gift email metrics are similar to those of a standard nonprofit marketing email.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000. Check out some of the Facebook data findings: Comparing email subscribers to Facebook page users – On average, the nonprofits studied had 110 Facebook fans per 1000 email list subscribers.

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Classy

JUNE 4, 2021

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. Most matching gift programs offer funds at a 1:1 ratio, but some even go as high as 4:1. Capital Group. Air Products and Chemicals. American Express. Maximize Matching Gift Revenue With Direct Appeals.

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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. This resource gives detailed WCAG ratings on how content appears as standard text, large text, and graphical objects.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. Many ratios and other information can be derived from financial documents that are useful to interpretation. The Nonprofits Assistance Fund has a great resource that describes 14 different types of financial ratios. Simplify without Compromise.

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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. For example, if I visit a site that has a combination of pink colored text sitting on top of a background that is either busy or “too close” in color like a pale green or yellow, it gets a lot harder to read.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Common Sales Operations Metrics & KPIs. Preferred metrics vary across teams and organizations. Average Win Rate is the ratio of closed won deals over the total number of won and lost deals. Performance.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric. If you have 12 total staff members, and you know that the average ratio of tech-to-org staff for your budget size is 1:24, then you know that having at least 0.5

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. Match ratios. Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. Here are a few suggested matching gift metrics to record: Number of donors employed by companies with matching gift programs. Provide donors with access to an employer database. Qualifying types of employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

So here are four principles we used in designing GuideStar Platinum : Nonprofits should choose metrics that make sense for them. We have gathered 700 suggested metrics for our Common Results Catalog —but nonprofits can always add their own metrics, too. It is valuable to identify cases where nonprofits use common metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith. By the end of 2011, we will increase the number of people who “Like&# us on Facebook to the median Facebook network or x%. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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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. To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success , let’s take a look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. How is ROI calculated?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. Human resource performance metrics: Methods & Processes that demonstrate that you care. Anatomy of the nonprofit starvation cycle: An analysis of falling overhead ratios in the nonprofit sector.

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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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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Lastly, determine your matching ratio and submission deadlines for any donation match requests. Implement workplace giving software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Our new profiles emphasize answers to key questions about nonprofit programs and performance. Turning snapshots into stories .

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Having said that, there are two ratios that I believe are very important for nonprofit leaders to track – and both have to do with liquidity. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio. Example: ABC Theatre.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

However, if these engagement metrics are chronically low, your nonprofit may need more than routine maintenance—you may need an overhaul. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. Over time, websites that are outdated and lack a modern design will naturally decline in engagement.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

“At the extremes the overhead ratio can offer insight: it can be a valid data point for rooting out fraud and poor financial management," the letter stated. Marketing Research Metrics Nonprofit Trends nptech' The nonprofit community must take risks, test new ideas, and fail quickly to succeed.

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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. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The PTAT metric includes all the following activities that happen on your page over a one-week rolling period: Liking a page.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

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. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? How many should?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Simply determine a match ratio, such as 1:1 or 2:1, and donate as the requests come in! You can also highlight metrics provided by the nonprofits your efforts supported. Volunteer grants: 63 million Americans (25% of the adult population) donate to worthy causes non-monetarily by volunteering their time, talents, and energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

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 ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, Twitter As A Conversation Tool. Did it surprise?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Each year you should be evaluating your Annual Operating Plan , reviewing metrics and benchmarks, and determining the ratios and drivers you will use to determine the most effective areas to which to allocate your resources and capital to achieve the optimal return on investment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Most businesses match at a 1:1 ratio, but some will match at a 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 proportion. For example, you might demonstrate the marketing benefits sponsors can receive by highlighting the reach of your fundraising events or your social media engagement metrics.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Cost per visitor.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos. WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Some interesting questions and reactions in the chat during the Webinar that I wanted to answer and reflect on further. ( part 1 , part 2 ) Is there a general time ratio or average percentage of time spent on ROI measures vs the actual work? This is such a good question.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Events are a great way to bring like-minded people together and have a good time in the name of your cause. Some fundraising events are huge, drawing attendees and sponsors like moths to a flame.

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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. Digging a little deeper into the traffic metrics I found something interesting: 250,000, or 58% of all monthly traffic is organic search.

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