Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

There’s no question about it: Data collection can feel overwhelming and scary, and it can often feel like a challenge you’ll never be able to overcome. Be deliberate – If you can’t tell members what you’re going to do with the answer they’re giving you, don’t ask those questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. Beyond these obvious benefits, discoveries also remove the risk of implementing the wrong solution. Discoveries Drive Alignment & Adoption. <

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here are the top three benefits AI has for fundraising and fundraisers: AI saves staff time. Chatbots are online conversational interfaces that can automate answering basic questions from supporters, directing them to information, or collecting contact information. AI can improve donor engagement and online support. Closing thoughts.

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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. Help the board understand the operational benefit a change in technology can bring to fundraising, marketing, communications, public relations, HR, IT, and more. Let’s dive in.

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

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

For any organization seeking to make a social impact, having an AI policy can help maximize the benefits of using these tools while minimizing the risks. Here are three reasons why your organization should consider adopting an AI policy.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 7, 2022

Ask your staff to further understand what kind of technology your association can adopt to improve both the staff and member experience. Evaluate membership benefits. Review your value proposition to ensure all benefits are relevant to today’s members. Survey staff. What’s working? What isn’t? How can we improve our technology?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

How would adopting innovative technology help your association thrive? As you examine your organization, reflect upon these questions and consider the following factors of an innovative association: . Eliminate low-value work at your association by adopting innovative technology. Are you on track to surpass your annual goals?

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EveryAction

APRIL 6, 2017

As more and more brands adopted inbound marketing tactics, which favor a multi-channel approach, it became clear that to manage complex, far-reaching campaigns, marketers needed a way to automate their efforts and, in return, receive data and analysis on how they paid off. Where I think automation shines is when we look at advocacy.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ask your colleagues questions. Use softer, more open-ended questions to get detailed information that you will capture in writing for your plan. What questions do you want answers to from data? Process – If you have a question, what is the process to get your answers? Be sure to ask stakeholders in different departments.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Critical Questions What is your association’s value proposition?

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But not everyone is benefiting equally. Guiding questions for the discovery assessment phase of a pro bono technology project. Guiding questions for the design phase of a pro bono technology project. Technology has the power to unlock new possibilities for people and for the planet. Length: 13 pages. Level: Advanced.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Your associ ation should consider adopting AI because it can help you exceed member expectations and boost recruitment and retention efforts. Keep reading to learn more ways AI can help your association provide an excellent member experience and offer c ompetitive member benefits. . How can AI transform your association? .

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

Be a Skeptic Resilience asks you to identify possibilities, but it also requires adopting flexible approaches to strategy and viewing your future projections with a dose of skepticism. Scenario planning aids in exploring these six core questions: Why are we engaged in planning now? What are the possible scenarios we are facing?

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 3, 2022

Over the past few years, Facebook has added several new features to their social media platform that can greatly benefit nonprofits in both recruiting volunteers and promoting fundraising opportunities. Here are a few strategic benefits of Facebook Live that organizations can incorporate into their marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

The themes we will cover are: Why 1 Tweet by Nonprofit CEO is Worth More Than 1,000 Staff: Benefits, Challenges, Solutions. Understand the Benefits. There are many benefits both to your organization and professionally. The workshop is co-presented by S tanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

Here are seven tips to get feedback from your employees by conducting a staff survey: What questions to ask when designing a survey for staff . Ask the right questions. When designing your staff survey, you’ll want to ensure you ask quality questions. As a rule, make your questions direct and without an implied answer.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

You can also trust your records, helping your organization become more data – driven to improve your annual reporting process. The main benefit of user-friendly reports and dashboards is the visual representation of your data. Instead, they’ ll quickly gain access to the information they need with a few click s of a button.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

He also touched on what skills and mindsets fundraisers need to adopt, including using Behavioral Economics as discussed in the book Change for Good. And that’s where I’ve spent the last 25 years of my nonprofit tech career, finding the technology interesting many years before we see it on the ground non profit adoption.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 12, 2012

As many of you know, we are now officially collecting data for the forthcoming edition of our Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Report. So for this report, we’ve expanded our questions on nonprofit benefits practices, including questions asking how nonprofits are responding to various issues. Health insurance coverage.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Kantor, PhD Today, the authors share these additional insights with us: Question: Do you truly believe hybrid workplaces are here to stay and that in five years or so, most employees won’t be back in offices and no longer working from home? Question: What are the few most important benefits for a company that has a hybrid workplace?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

While well-intentioned, this places a burden on nonprofits that are responding to multiple demographic requests, with different questions and formats, from various funders. With broad adoption, this practice will reduce inefficiencies, cut down on duplicate information requests, and give nonprofits time back to devote to their missions.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 6, 2014

Despite the cloud’s ubiquity, questions remain about how it works, how it directly benefits nonprofits, and how to properly implement the technology. All of these questions and more have been asked, and we’ve answered. Whatever your question is on cloud computing, you can be sure Tech Impact has an answer! Click here.

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Kindful

MAY 12, 2021

When it comes to answering your questions as a nonprofit professional, using search engines like Google is a fast and effective way to find information. You aren’t the only one typing in random questions into Google. Your beneficiaries or participants who could benefit from your organization’s programs and services.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

When you adopt innovative technology at your association, you have the power to increase worker engagement, productivity, and collaboration. No question with the younger generation, if you don’t have good tech, they’ll leave. Be realistic about your staff’s abilities and the effort it takes to adopt innovative technology.

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Technology Literacy Associations Retention 141

Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

When incorporated into your nonprofit’s strategies, AI has a number of important benefits. Its most immediate benefit is that it gives you real-time lists of the individuals who are most likely to take action on your next appeal or stewardship message. Reduced overhead costs of broad fundraising outreach. How Nonprofits Use AI.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With AI showing up as a wonder tool in nearly every platform we use, it’s no surprise that every industry, every business unit is suddenly racing to adopt AI. With AI, you first define some outcome, some question you want answered. Decisions When Building the Models When building a predictive AI model, you’ll have many questions.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

JANUARY 22, 2019

But when you have a question or need help, suddenly you realize just how useful they are. Although chatbots have become extremely popular on for-profit business sites, especially with millennial customers, nonprofit organizations have yet to adopt the technology. Here are a few ways a chatbot can benefit your nonprofit.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” To focus on the benefits of digital adoption for nonprofits, we created the Salesforce for Nonprofits Digital Maturity Index based on answers to five simple questions. Aside from fortifying relationships, high digital maturity offers benefits for nonprofit staff. Digitally mature nonprofits were: 3.5x

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2022

When developing a CRM vision, the most basic questions to ask are: What are our most important goals? Starting with these basic questions, an organization can delve deep into the answers, and build a CRM vision that establishes a clearly defined set of guideposts for moving forward with CRM as a strategy. What do we need to achieve?

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Industries everywhere have begun to adopt subscription models. What are the benefits to subscription membership model? Empowers you to deliver benefits digitally. Which member benefits do you find most or least useful? Subscription models are all the rage these days. What about associations? It’s the “dream”?membership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2018

Never question if you hit the save button again as most cloud-based accounting systems back up your work automatically. NTEN’s State of the Nonprofit Cloud Report stated 64% of nonprofit CFOs said adopting cloud technology would cut operational costs by up to 20%. Source: NTEN 2018 Cloud Report.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

Companies who decide to back your program do so for prearranged benefits, like increased brand exposure, discounted ticket prices, or speaking opportunities at the event. The Community Brands study discovered 41% of association members value training opportunities as one of the most important membership benefits. Learn more.

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