Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Can the development office customize workflows and notifications when a donor is lapsing to help you determine the root cause and how to turn the trend around? Is the technology popular in the market?

Metrics 261

Metrics Nonprofit Profile Platform 261

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Key reporting features The most impactful reports encompass a variety of aspects, from donation trends to donor retention. Sounds ideal, right?

Report 60

Report Effective Fundraising Template 60

sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

Blackbaud 65

Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 65

M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

We surveyed our nonprofit clients to dig into the trending hits and surprise breakout stars when it came to 2022’s year-end fundraising playlist, with detailed results from 21 organizations. The averages we report for each metric are medians — they represent the middle nonprofit out of all those that provided data.

Fundraising 106

Fundraising Gift Digital Trend 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. The Facebook Insights tool lets you see trends Fan acquisition and subscription. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. Tags: facebook metrics.

Metrics 97

Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

Companies large and small are investing in purpose and social responsibility programs: Our report includes an analysis of employee engagement trends across companies with 0 – 100,000+ employees. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report. Social Justice campaigns received over $2.8

Disaster 92

Disaster Social North America Companies 92

Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

Blackbaud 48

Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

Metrics 71

Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. City-level leaders, decision-makers, and community advocates actively using data to improve health and wellbeing in specific communities are among the primary audiences.

Story 66

Story Data Storytelling Lesson 66

Achieve

MARCH 17, 2023

Monitor metrics. Determining how often you should send text messages and what type of content resonates best with supporters will require some testing and strategic analysis. To help your organization figure out what combination of strategies works best for your audience, you’ll need to monitor metrics.

Channel 52

Channel Donor Demographics Social Media 52

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Industry Research & Trends . Fred Weiss shared an in-depth analysis on the latest trends facing higher education advancement , alumni engagement metrics, and CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey. Key findings from CASE’s 2018 VSE Survey include: .

Trend 23

Trend Learning Industry Education 23

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What your team might not realize, however, is that each of your separate digital marketing efforts should actively support the others. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. You might consider questions such as: What are your current nonprofit digital marketing activities? Analyze key metrics in your database.

Digital 98

Digital Strategy Create Phase 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

These capabilities show: Key Metrics in Volunteer Contribution Analysis The number of interactions based on how often volunteers showed up for work—a volunteer who helps over a period of time is more valuable than the volunteer who engages a single time. Retained, active volunteers. Retained, active volunteers.

Analysis 72

Analysis Report Volunteer Impact 72

fusionSpan

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Within your donor management system (DMS), contact information, activity tracking, financial capacity, history, and engagement can be recorded, allowing your organization to monitor success and engage with donors in a more segmented and personalized manner. Salesforce’s Nonprofit Cloud offers this for both potential and present donors.

Management 59

Management Donor Fundraising Track 59

M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Gift Rate email 98

Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

Organizations have shared more than 43,000 metrics, which demonstrate how nonprofits measure the difference they make in the world. . Who shares their metrics? . What kinds of metrics are shared? . Platinum Seal holders provide, on average, three metrics. The most frequently used metrics are : .

Metrics 98

Metrics Student Demonstration Adopt 98

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. Does a photo showing people doing an activity do better than people posing together? Here some tips on how to improve Facebook engagement with photos. John Hadyon suggests not calling it posting, but planting seeds.

Practice 107

Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. This isn’t an entirely passive process: A nonprofit that has an active donor acquisition strategy (more on that below) will be working to identify and target potential donors with information.

Donor 52

Donor Management Guide Retention 52

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Specifically, define the metrics that are most interesting and useful for your organization. Then, doublecheck that you’ve got a solid infrastructure in place to collect that data and report it to your CRM for further analysis. You’ll need to actively promote your app prior to it hitting the app store. Set a launch date.

Effective 52

Effective Marketing Press Review 52

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

Metrics 87

Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Sometimes we've led trends. Like many Web services, we were following the social media trend without realizing how much our perspective was skewed by bias of the Bandwagon Effect. In terms of our key metrics, however, we saw little impact from Facebook Connect. AddThis, Facebook Activity Widget, etc.)

Data 63

Data Change Analysis Metrics 63

Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Define success metrics before starting campaigns. Keep an ongoing dashboard of metrics updated regularly. Specific and easy to assess.

ROI 51

ROI Social Media Measure Metrics 51

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Were there any patterns or trends in their behaviors (e.g., Use Google Analytics to track metrics like unique visitors, pageviews, backlinks, and more to identify how to create compelling online content.

Fund 52

Fund Donor Strategy Search 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Monitors feedback from target audience in real time but balances with trend or survey data. Documents quantitative results against goals and value when asked by senior leadership.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. In the preliminary analysis we are seeing some useful trends and some areas that will require more examination.

Benchmark 103

Benchmark Social Media Global Project 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.

Comparison 50

Comparison Analysis Aggregator Twitter 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He introduced me (virtually via Twitter) to Alistair Croll , co-author of their forthcoming book called " Watching Websites ," a deep dive into web metrics and monitoring. If you're looking at measuring or improving your strategy via Twitter, you'd start with your objectives first and identify key metrics. A disclaimer.

Measure 90

Measure Twitter Tools Taxonomy 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Does it exist?

Donation 50

Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

I’ve be facilitating a few introductory workshops and briefings about Pinterest for nonprofits with a goal of explaining it, what it does, benefits, and examples of how nonprofits and others are using it. I’ve been actively curating tools, research, and tips and have found some great ones that I’m sharing sharing below.

Tools 105

Tools Tips Resource Stats 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The group also mentioned an example in Europe where a neighborhood council was cross referencing social media data with location to find out what topics were trending in those neighborhoods as part of a planning process. Which profiles are you most active on? Do you need sentiment analysis? Disaster work. In which formats?

Social Media 100

Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Administrative Dashboard: Facebook has given us a nice administrative dashboard that let’s us see our metrics and fan activity in an easy to glance screen. Also keep in mind that there are some rules around the cover image about what information you can or can’t include.

Change 117

Change Tips Help Facebook 117

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Watch for long-term trends, not just what is popular that week or month. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Pay attention to the “change&# in weekly numbers and measure it against activities or messages you were pushing that week.

Tools 162

Tools Tech Map RSS 162

AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Creative engagements will be the key to capturing attention and keeping virtual audiences active and engaged with your brand. Event marketers who are nimble and can adapt to recent trends in digital transformation are the ones who will prevail and deliver the most value to their stakeholders. The Changing Role of the Event Marketer.

Guide 93

Guide Virtual Registration Platform 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions.

Awareness 100

Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Tax-exempt hospitals may also offer community benefit through supporting medical education, health services research, subsidized health services, community health improvement activities and cash or in-kind contributions. However, this belies a growing and significant trend. Strategic Grantmaking Allows Hospitals To….

Community 35

Community Grant Foundation Homeless 35

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Also essential to the day were 12 coaches, whose areas of expertise ranged from digital media to business analysis, and three judges: James Rooney, Microsoft; Deena Pierott, iUrbanTeen; and Sonya Watson, Tides Foundation. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

Ideas 94

Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

In theory, you want to be active on as many channels as resources allow. After conducting a site-wide analysis I found 230 additional broken links that I was more than happy to share. When you get a response I highly recommend running a full site-analysis to check for broken links. Be Active Where Your Audience Is Active.

Results 82

Results Digital Strategy Chapter 82