ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

Motivations for their giving include receiving tax deductions and understanding the impact their investment is making. Studies show that donors ask less about where their money is spent and more about the impact their donation is making. So, how can nonprofit leaders effectively communicate impact to stakeholders?

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Candid

JANUARY 18, 2022

Seals are a tangible way to demonstrate your organization’s commitment to transparency and build confidence among potential supporters. . Save time and impress donors : Leverage your profile as the perfect handout to showcase your programs and impact in meetings with funders. . Metrics: share at least one metric from 2021 .

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

All of the association’s activities and initiatives are grounded in the ideals that are outlined below. Images of the association’s founders, history, and current activities are displayed throughout the facility, and spaces were created to accommodate a variety of work styles. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Ultimately, you will be able to strengthen the impact your mission has on the people and communities you serve.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Recognizing volunteers effectively can positively impact your retention rates. Actively recognizing volunteers is one of the most important components of volunteer engagement and retention. Are those strategies having a positive impact on improving volunteer experience ? Demonstrate and Communicate Impact…Often.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. By collecting essential metrics as part of your program management process, you’ll be able to use this information to: Identify program gaps and areas of need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” Thus, performance management was a way to drive activities, not results. ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consider the gift amounts that have a significant impact on your organization’s ability to work toward your mission. Determine whether external factors like economic changes or global events may have an impact on your major giving strategy. Development director. Major gifts officer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

We saw some of the impacts of these changes in this year’s Benchmarks. Since Apple Mail can be set up to work not just with Apple domains, but also with most of the major inbox providers (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail…) this impacts a huge segment of email subscribers. There were frenzied discussions about how to cope (wait and see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. You want to inspire curiosity beyond formal professional development activities. Incorporate Wellbeing Metrics into Your Performance Reviews The good news is some organizations are already taking it a step further.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So, you get to work and land on one text-heavy website and another website with a prominent video that describes a nonprofit’s work, mission, and impact. Show a person or group of people impacted by your organization, such as a beneficiary or donor, to share their connection to your cause. Add human interest. Use a call-to-action.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, keep an eye toward how your internal and external reports can blend data-driven stories of impact. Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, talk about how past Giving Tuesday support has had an impact on the programs and services you offer to your community, and what initiatives the upcoming Giving Tuesday will support. These markers indicate a person’s affinity for your cause, making them likely to be receptive to opportunities to increase their impact.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Simplified reporting: Most email automation tools include built-in reporting capabilities that allow you to easily generate reports on key metrics, such as email open rates, click-through rates, and overall campaign performance. To prove to them that they do, write fundraising emails that demonstrate each donor’s personal impact.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

However, you also know these cycles of boom and bust aren’t always efficient or effective at building a truly successful program—instead, retaining advocates year-round and between campaigns is what will help you build more power and make a deeper impact in alignment with your long-term vision and goals. Here’s what they said.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

This will help you create highly relevant and impactful messages that will excite your supporters and inspire generosity. You can even pair your golf tournament with an auction fundraiser to maximize impact and bring in even more support for your cause. Be compelling and demonstrate the importance of the cause you’re championing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Help uncover compelling or creative stories of impact to use in fundraising.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

According to the IRS, “no organization may qualify for section 501(c)(3) status if a substantial part of its activities is attempting to influence legislation (commonly known as lobbying). A 501(c)(3) organization may engage in some lobbying , but too much lobbying activity risks loss of tax-exempt status.”

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? How are your marketing activities going to help you get there? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. They are the tiny moments that demonstrate how meaningful your work is. What’s working?

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?”

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

With the rise of social impact as a business metric, companies are more eager than ever to contribute to meaningful causes, yet many nonprofits don’t make the most of this fundraising avenue. Your nonprofit will receive flexible funding to support various activities. It also estimates that corporate giving increased by 3.4%

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Interrogating how legacy social media platforms and their harmful content policies impact nonprofit communications, organizing, and fundraising can lead us to prioritize equity and safety when moving to new platforms—or choosing to stay on existing ones. Marginalized users and organizations have been impacted in multiple ways.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 92

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

European Foundation Week Session: Evaluating Foundation Activities: Lessons from Lavoro and Psiche - Organized by Fondazione Cariplo , 31st May 2010. This session focused on introducing a new approach to addressing social needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Dynamics of Cause Engagement – Final Report from Center for Social Impact Communication, Georgetown University. According to the study , people who frequently engaged in promotional social activity are: Twice as likely to volunteer their time. We aim to encourage this type of activity. And certainly we will.

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Hunger Measure Metrics Case Study 104

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

To start establishing yourself as a world-changing, impactful organization on the platform, here are a few best practices to succeed on LinkedIn. Whether it’s a photo of your volunteers in action or pictures of the communities you serve, the photo you pick should demonstrate your organization’s impact to visitors to your LinkedIn page.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2022

Convenience — in your donation process, event registration, and activity participation — is one of your supporters’ most important values. At first glance, these metrics aren’t terrible, but the issues that cause users to feel frustrated are typically easy to resolve. Convenience is crucial. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They recruited some of their strongest supporters to act as “AuSM Champions” and run peer-to-peer fundraising pages, then invite all their friends to a livestream event full of cooking demonstrations, personal stories, and drawings. They invited participants to track their minutes of any activity, from running to reading.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Be clear about what you do and how a corporate sponsorship can make an impact in your community. How Nonprofits Can Win Corporate Sponsorships Collecting and reporting data that demonstrates the success of your partnership will be key to winning and retaining corporate sponsors for your nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Impact 4 Ways to Expertly Manage Donor Data 9 min read Read Now Perform Prospect Research What Is This Strategy? Impact Donor Wealth Screening: Find & Engage Affluent Prospects with Windfall 4 min read Read Now Look to Your Donor Database What Is This Strategy? That’s a recipe for frustration! Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These statistics demonstrate the increasing impact of corporate philanthropy and the desire for employees to have opportunities to engage in workplace giving. Patagonia Patagonia takes a very active role in promoting social good through corporate philanthropy. Bombas Bombas is a clothing brand best known for well-made socks.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

My colleagues and I have talked at length about how social good organizations have reached a point of impact – a point in the giving sector’s evolution where organizations are shifting their giving mindset from, “ look how much we gave ” to “l ook at what our grant achieved.” And when we elevate each other, we can elevate our shared impact.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. This is especially true during a period when people are feeling some burnout in regard to online activity. Experience Our Nonprofit Event On-Demand.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

Questions about the nonprofit sector’s impact and effectiveness abound—and are inordinately hard to answer. 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? .

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