The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, but it's a lot easier when you're not starting from scratch - so we've put together a template that you can fill out as you go, which already contains the structure, sections, and language you'll need.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For many prospective donors, understanding the tangible outcomes of their support can be the tipping point to contribute. Sometimes, it might be helpful to integrate real-world metrics or examples into the impact statement to make it more relatable. Use this elevator pitch template to get started.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

3 Post-auction example emails General thank you and recap email This email template works well as a starting point for any organization wanting to cover its bases following its auction. Schools, communities, and nonprofits alike can use this template to express gratitude and follow-up.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. These metrics measure outcomes for programs which can be compared to previous ones.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

5 best practices for writing a convincing grant proposal How to write a grant proposal for nonprofits in 11 basic steps Where to find grant opportunities Grant proposal templates Grant proposal do’s and don’ts What is a grant proposal? Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

The spreadsheet captures strategy, outcomes, tactics, and Key Performance Indicators or metrics. And there is no lack of social media metrics tools ! The challenge is not finding the perfect metrics tool, but how you pull the right data into excel – and work with it to clean and organize it.

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Classy

AUGUST 19, 2021

Driving action for the greater good is not just the outcome of our products but the core of who we are at Classy. . This will also include the launch of Campaign Templating, which allows an organization to create a foundation for all associated campaigns so you don’t have to start from scratch. Meet Eric Pannese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Been thinking a lot about of the work processes around creating content and measuring its against outcomes this week. One idea that came up in my post earlier this week about creating and measuring content , was the concept of an idea dashboard. This post takes it a bit deeper. Review ideas in your “Idea Dashboard”.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Sit down and discuss upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, and available reporting metrics. You may not think that providing daily metrics for a social campaign will be a big lift for your development team, but checking in with them first guarantees that it will be a manageable ask.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. Implement procedures to asess metrics. The outcome? Here are our top takeaways and a glimpse of the inspiration attendees experienced onsite. Be intimate with your data.

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Everyaction

MAY 30, 2018

To get started, download this template for gathering and comparing vendor information. Using a 1-10 scale or other similar metric may help you compare those options that fall somewhere in the middle. We’ll walk you through how to use it to make sure that you find a nonprofit technology vendor that fits your needs for the best price.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning template Before you dive into the strategic planning process, it can be helpful to know what type of plan or report you’re going to end up with. Generally, strategic planning forms look similar to this: This template outlines all of the essential planning steps that we’ll review in the next section.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Finalize the technology plan with benefits and outcomes. Here are some additional resources that include templates and examples of inventories, tech budget worksheets and other essentials: A really useful quick and easy, and also free tool to get started with is TechSoup Canada’s Tech Self-Assessment. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

The new year is a perfect planning opportunity as your organization sets its sights on new goals and outcomes for the next 12 months. This is the season to freshen up your email messaging templates and focus on mobile, optimizing all your email communications to maximize your subscriber engagement. Email Is Back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Net-Map Tool Kit is an interview-based low-tech mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes in a community or network. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Program outcomes: Guidance on developing an effective integrated social media strategy to support your mission. My favorite tip was that Holly shared her Editorial Calendar Template spreadsheet. Social media metrics for nonprofits. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient. It was fantastic.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here’s how a platform like this can modernize your operations: Streamlined donor management A best-in-class DMS for faith-based organizations provides interactive dashboards that give you a comprehensive view of your organization’s performance metrics, including recurring giving campaigns, campaign effectiveness, and donation tracking.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Here’s how a platform like this can modernize your operations: Streamlined donor management A best-in-class giving platform for nonprofits provides interactive dashboards that deliver insights into your organization’s performance metrics, including recurring giving campaigns, campaign effectiveness, and donation tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it.   There are two concepts missing from Demetrio's set of cards that I'd like to incorporate are metrics - How do you measure success?  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

As we know now, the outcome of the case was not what we wanted, but we really tried to create impact – and we know that going forward (as a family), we'll be close to AI's mission for life. This is the basic metric most novice media planners will consider above all. In online media buying this is defined as impressions. Don't do that.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Your organization probably generates and collects a lot of data, and AI-powered data analytics tools can help you gain insights into donor behavior, program outcomes, and other key metrics. Functionality : Some key features include customizable templates, integrations, analytics and reporting, and multilingual support.

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 16, 2023

fusionSpan will build an intuitive system that provides a single source of truth with your data, empowering your employees to inspire action among their donors and supporting communities, and be able to clearly report on and accelerate the efforts and outcomes of donor correspondence.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Download your Virtual Fundraising Planning Guide and Template: Here are our top 23 ideas for virtual fundraising ideas : 1. Crowdfunding is all about target-based fundraising so we suggest creating a crowdfunding page to raise $x amount of dollars to fund an x outcome. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

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CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve helped organizations grow despite setbacks, despite a lack of impact metrics, and despite a clear path to victory, primarily by making sure the organization was authentic with their donors. I’ve got a great template here that you can use to plan out your donor gratitude program. But authenticity with donors can go a long way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

2: Identify results, metrics, and mini goals for your campaign. What metrics will you use to measure success? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. Dollar Specific: We need to raise $ to see this specific outcome. Objective.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. You can create templates to save time and create consistency across your communication.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

Maria’s content calendar template. Scheduling tools let you monitor the progress of your campaigns, track engagement metrics, and measure the impact of your social media efforts. By sharing stories that demonstrate the positive outcomes of your work, you inspire potential donors with a sense of purpose.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

In fact, a more realistic outcome of 10X traffic would be a 1.5X – 2.0X Note : No templates or cut and paste BS. As a result, both of our Twitter pages have seen increased metrics across the board: Keep doing this until you start to see traction. Simply put, 10X more traffic to your website does not guarantee a 10X return.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. You can assume more about shared context, you can also expect a higher investment in the outcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

This mean that they had to think of social change as campaign templates so they could do more systematic iteration and learn from it. “If you are constantly changing, you are not iterating.”. Their primary communications method is text and that lends itself to templates. Million members who are young people. Focusing on KPIs.

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