Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with. Metrics Tracking. >> Internal reporting: Weekly metrics for various platforms •Add metrics as you go. Facebook activity was highest around this kind of topic/content.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2021, they used CauseVox to create their Duradash peer-to-peer campaign and came away with over $30,000 through their virtual activity challenge ! For 2021 they decided to shake things up and make it an activity challenge through the CauseVox platform instead. The strongest fundraising strategy will meet those donors where they are.

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Activities Active Activism Raise 83

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

Their systems and processes help them pivot when an unexpected turn of events (a global pandemic or a tidal wave of social activism, for example) turns their operations upside-down. If you’re curious about where your organization stands in its digital transformation, ask yourself three questions: 1. Where are you on the spectrum?

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Digital Question Mentoring Michigan 116

DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

When choosing a virtual platform, though, it is important to ask the right questions so you can be sure that it will provide the right features and benefits for your event. To help you to discern between platforms, and to prepare you for choosing the right one, we’ve prepared a list of questions to have on hand. This question is huge!

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Virtual Platform Question Broadcast 94

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. That was the question I cam to this issue with. But what about social media as another form of communication? And I welcome any comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. For the first 13 years of its existence, growth was slow but steady.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Where will we need to add, reduce, or diversify talent?

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit. Your organization’s aggregated or synthesized data is more like a complex carbohydrate that provides fuel for sustained activity. Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question. How often has your organization struggled with answering, “How are we doing?”

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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. That’s the OMTM.

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Metrics Measure Analytics Method 101

Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The team at Association Analytics often hears questions like, What exactly is data analytics? To help answer these questions, we’ve laid out some helpful tips on how to get started and where to go from there. What questions are you trying to answer with analytics? Outline the benefits of participating in other activities.

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Analytics Data Beginner Associations 169

Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To help you figure out your goal and audience, answer the following questions: Why do you want to start a WordPress site? If you have any upcoming events, whether fundraising or volunteer activities, feature them on a dedicated event page. Be sure to include a way for web visitors to RSVP to your activities on the page as well!

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WordPress Content Strategy Create 52

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For associations offering courses and certifications, having basic metrics on things like participation counts and revenue are critical – but just the start. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants.

Learning Management 130

Learning Management Associations Data Learning 130

EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts. At this point, your board may have nuts-and-bolts questions about how you’ll run this technology-implementation project. Let’s dive in.

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Technology Change Analysis Tech 186

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. Trust: A trusting environment ensures your team feels comfortable sharing their ideas and asking questions.

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Culture Create eBook Attitude 78

Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Create a newcomer group where new members can ask questions and discuss topics so that they feel at home in your association right away. For example, in a quick glance, you can see: Metrics that tell you how many of your members have joined the online community and how many are using it. Gain insights about your members.

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Community Online Associations Template 139

AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

When choosing a virtual platform, though, it is important to ask the right questions so you can be sure that it will provide the right features and benefits for your event. To help you to discern between platforms, and to prepare you for choosing the right one, we’ve prepared a list of questions to have on hand. This question is huge!

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Virtual Platform Question Broadcast 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Building from your theory of change, it is crucial for organizations to have a comprehensive, clear set of metrics (also called “indicators” in the social sector) that track inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes; all of these build evidence of your program’s effectiveness. How might you know whether this is the case? Data access.

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Practice Impact Data Effective 73

sgEngage

MARCH 13, 2024

So, we were curious: What would the data tell us about three key questions? We encourage you to read the full report where we dive into these questions and more. This metric is one to watch for the future. Have in-person events rebounded? Have people changed the way they donate?

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Blackbaud Report Fundraising Benchmark 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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Metrics Facebook People Measure 112

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition, “Even though the book is written directly to the leader, going through the Survive, Reset, Thrive loop is a team activity, not an individual one,” adds Homkes. Rebecca Homkes Today, Homkes shares these insights with us: Question: You describe SRT as a loop, not a line. Homkes: The entire loop! What is success?

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Latvia Companies North America San Francisco 93

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The main question will boil down to: ‘Did we make a difference?’” But the main question will boil down to: “Did we make a difference? A perhaps more ambitious metric, and certainly one more difficult to measure, will be the impact of local journalism grants on democracy and civic life itself in the United States.

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Local Pledge News Support 99

Candid

JANUARY 18, 2022

Brand: logo, tagline, website, and social media names/handles—so donors can see your nonprofit’s latest activity . Strategy & goals: upload strategic plan or briefly answer two questions . Metrics: share at least one metric from 2021 . Program(s) info: name, brief description, geographic area served .

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Info Profile Metrics Demonstration 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity. Call attention to and recognize cooperative behavior.

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Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Tags: facebook metrics. I have not done this yet.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 12, 2022

Here are some questions for digging into this activity. Considering the outcome or impact metrics, what do those metrics mean for constituents long-term? Another way you can do this activity and get your creative juices flowing is to interview yourself! What do they receive directly and indirectly?

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Storytelling Impact Profit Story 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring.

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Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. But is this the right question? Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Where does the learning go?

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission. Fundraising and Development: Plans for generating financial resources to support the nonprofit’s activities. You can provide a few different metrics to show the program’s impact to your board.

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Guide Business Support Metrics 52

M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Some (including our friends at EveryAction and ActionKit) are using the data about when, where, and how the tracking pixel has been downloaded to separate out different types of opens, so you can see two metrics for “human open rate” and “combined open rate.” If “open” means something different, do active list definitions need to change too?

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Mail Spam Rate email 107

Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

HubSpot’s recent research helps to answer this question: branded video content is the most memorable. For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

How are the answers to these questions impacting your fundraising? Keep in mind the importance of monitoring metrics related to engagement and spam complaints, as these directly correlate to the effectiveness of the sender name. Pose a question, tease a story, or make an offer like a matching donation campaign. Share their why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These community foundations are actively using the Giving Day Playbook to host Giving Days in their communities and it forms the backbone to peer exchanges. The engaged crowd on the webinar asked many smart questions of the presenters, who included Knight Foundation’s Bahia Ramos and GiveMN’s Dana Nelson , in addition to myself.

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Hosting Foundation Question Giving 94

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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Team Build Ratio Measure 58

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? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). However, not all activities are created equal, so to speak. Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Learning Free Reflection Model 94

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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