Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. Decisional: Conveying information that contributes to a specific decision or action. Meaning Making.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Action items not assigned to an active team member can lead to phone calls, meetings, and other crucial tasks not being completed. This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Do you know what topics people care about? Same as above.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Convey the mission as urgently needed and highly solvable to inspire hope and action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Include a strong call to action (CTA).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

There’s calls to action, story telling, questions and requests, and much more. On a flip chart or whiteboard (or if you are working through this by yourself, just use a piece of paper or a spread sheet on your computer) draw 4 vertical lines, creating 5 columns. Because it isn’t JUST a conversation! 2: What we Want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

ASW would argue that the platforms don’t own the relationships; the platforms do own the topic of conversation, or the point of interest—a point that should really be made explicit and especially viewed as actionable. most social ads require explicit action. Evaluate where social makes sense. Activities. personal cpm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. It was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Evaluate external threats and opportunities. For example, economic downturns may mean that your major donors will not be able to give as much this year.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It is unrealistic for a nonprofit to expect 100% of their donors to give year over year, which is why reviewing which programs have the highest return on investment is a great initial step to take in putting your vision into action.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

The evaluation and recognition of peer influence, something that is not only prevalent but inherent in social media, is something that help empower and sustain your communities AND increase your staff capacity. I’ve talked before about how to map your community and the messages within it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You have to measure accurately, as well as create an environment where problems can be discussed openly so you can effectively evaluate what’s working and what’s not.” At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

A Communications Evaluation Guide by Asibey Consulting I've been exploring different ROI and communications evaluation approaches and how they might be adapted for social media strategies. To help, the Communications Network recently published a guide to help foundations and nonprofits develop plans to evaluate their communications.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. You can see CDSI in many things, and most clearly in grassroots organizing or any non-organization led action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This does not mean predicting the future (an impossible task if ever there was one) but instead means being attuned to rapid and continual shifts in the environment; continually evaluating and interpreting how organizations can best adapt; and experimenting with new responses and approaches.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. What’s an action you need to take to achieve your goal? Who on your team will be responsible for taking this action? When do they need to take this action? Was the data not convincing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. One of the challenges of developing an issue system is to build participants’ identity with it; this is critical to creating effective action to realize opportunities, address needs and respond to challenges.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

You might even kick off this conversation at your meeting by going around the room asking everyone to share their idea and writing it on a white board or flip chart. If it’s tough to get your Board members to come see your programs in action, bring the programs to them in video. Invite a guest speaker. Show a video.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

This is the wrong course of action. Most good relationships being with understanding, a mutual agreement on a course of action or common direction. You are meeting regularly with key staff and department heads to evaluate needs and implement solutions. The Organizational Chart ~ Look for Obstacles. and the mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2006

s Using Free Online Tools toolkit is designed as an interactive, practical guide to help nonprofits evaluate free web tools and resources such as benefits calculators, online filing of forms, etc. This worksheet offers a grid or rating chart to evaluate the tool's features of the tools compared with the organization's or its clients needs. (4)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

A capital campaign or a major push to reach new donors are times when it’s definitely worth the effort to re-evaluate your tech stack and look for improvements that can support your goals. Check out this guide from Astron Solutions to learn more about talent management systems designed for smaller organizations to see some in action.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . The potential donor turns into a donor after evaluating their options and donating to the organization. Be transparent with your actions, and let donors in on: . Budget for expenses. Be transparent.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

They can also reveal “opportunities” for growth and remedial action to solidify the performance of an event. Chart your progress over the event season; you may find you need to change tactics mid-season to achieve your goal. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

One-Click Advocacy: What is the call to action online? The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.” On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Survey: The purpose of the survey is to get as much actionable information from the donor to target future solicitations better than the competition. To properly evaluate all feedback, look for trends between the feedback and the socio-demographic profile/age/gender and other characteristics of the donor.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 13, 2023

A fundraising plan is a way to document your goals into actionable steps that your development team can execute to achieve fundraising success. And, of course, an employee organizational chart, staff contact sheet, and important community partners should also be routed. What is your CRM?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

You have to go beyond that and listen for action. If you aren’t in a position to take action based on what you hear, there’s little purpose in listening or trying to use a community-driven model. Building on that listening, and supporting you in taking action based on what you hear, it’s integral that you have the capacity to change.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project. Pick a few key ways the funders can evaluate your program. Provide a chart or graph to add a visual representation of the budget. Your budget needs to be reasonable and fit within what the grant is able to offer in funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin. What worked? What didn't? I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

They have the power to inspire, engage, and ignite action in ways that data and statistics alone cannot. Create clear action steps and easy to navigate donation pages to ensure no donor gets lost in the process. Inspiring Action Personal stories often serve as a call to action.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

define who is responsible for leading, executing, and providing feedback on each workstream (a well-executed RACI chart is great for this!). Evaluate creative work based on effectiveness, not opinion. Reconsider a perception, take an action, visit a website, etc.). Do I know what you stand for, or what you’re asking me to do?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. The first part is having an actionable strategy. And in the Impact Method we call our actionable strategy. We actually, it has two parts, an impact strategy and a continuous action plan. And they are connected.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. The importance of encouraging both personal and institutional action on climate change has currently rocketed into the limelight with protests from Extinction Rebellion and the Fridays for Future movement. by Zoe Allen.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you evaluate your options, ask yourself questions like: Does this venue fit within our budget? If you choose to have assigned seats, make sure you come up with a seating chart well in advance of your gala. Will you have a chart they can reference? Want to see it in action? Is it available on the date we’ve chosen?

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