Greater Giving

MARCH 26, 2024

Streamlined Operations: From managing games and admissions to tracking data and generating reports, Greater Giving’s interface made running the event a breeze. Expert Tips : Discover valuable advice on managing volunteers, training your team, and maximizing fundraising opportunities.

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Blue Fox

MARCH 17, 2021

Per their advice, here are three financial reporting items your organization should keep a keen eye on. Pro tip: Use the location feature in QuickBooks to set this up and simplify reporting. In fact, many new executive directors struggle to pinpoint exactly what financial information to discuss with board members.

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Literacy eBook Structure Model 78

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors worldwide give tribute gifts.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to credit and acknowledge donor advised fund gifts in their donor database: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m unsure how to enter donor advised fund gifts in our database so they’re credited and acknowledged appropriately.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Member management: Track user data, including dues requirements and membership status, and view it on a centralized dashboard. Member portals: Allow members to manage their membership online, track certificates, event registrations and more. Data Analytics and Reporting Tools. An AMS might include the following.

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Associations Professional Software Tools 141

Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to calculate an accurate nonprofit dollar retention rate. Should we track retained dollar value in 2021 compared to total retainable revenue in 2021 (the same year) or compare that amount to total retainable revenue in 2020 (the previous year)?

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Heeding our own advice, we have been helping a number of clients to get up and running with new GA4 properties, the tags they’ll need to deploy the GA4 code through Google Tag Manager or walking them through the steps of adding the GA4 directly to their website’s pages (not a method we would typically recommend, but that’s a whole other blog post!).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to talk to legacy givers as you document their legacy gift intent. . Today, the portion of organizations showing the estimated dollar value of bequest intentions on internal management reports may be approaching 50%. For future planning purposes.

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Gift Pledge Charity Mentoring 101

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . And, with that, it’s why you need to track data that tells you if your digital efforts are succeeding or if you need to tweak certain strategies. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to record and frame a combined ask (operations, campaign or program funding, etc.) As the fundraiser, your job is to reflect back to the donor, via thank you letter and subsequent reporting, how their money was spent to create the impact they envisioned.

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Blended Gift Database Campaign 104

Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

In fact, recent reports value one hour of volunteer work at $31.80. Companies can also offer skills-based volunteer programs for specific professional skills employees can provide that nonprofits may need assistance with, such as marketing, finance, legal advice, strategic planning, and more! Track the data.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

From tracking donations and expenditures, the success or failure of fund-raising events, staff protocols and effectiveness, lists of donors large and small and so much more, the organization that shirks information management does so at their own peril. For many non-profits, data crunching is everything.

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Software Volunteer Management NPO 100

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

Work with your advisor to iron out these details, and listen to their advice about the best strategies that will align with your endowment goals and generate long-term growth. Your nonprofit investment advisor should help you easily track the progress of your investments and communicate how the endowment grows over time.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Gift Fund 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The vendor can teach you how to pull all the data out of one system and put it into a new system, based on how you want the reports to look. Changing systems from QuickBooks to Intacct is not going to solve a “bad reporting” issue. advice that doesn’t consider the full picture) that don’t work to promote growth.

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Consultant Culture Nonprofit Issue 84

Candid

MAY 19, 2021

According to the same Kaiser Family Foundation report, forty-seven percent of women have reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder compared to 38 percent of men in December 2020. Add to this a reckoning with racial justice, and you have a populace on the verge of stress overload. Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

We keep track of this dynamic landscape so you can focus on your nonprofit. The social media site best known for its recipes, cat pictures, and fashion advice, Pinterest reported a nearly 44% increase in ecommerce sales in 2013, a category that should raise more than a few eyebrows in the nonprofit sector.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today’s question come from a nonprofit leader who wants advice on how to frame monthly gift asks to minimize accounting complications between restricted and unrestricted gifts: . Finance cares about tracking revenues and expenses for different line items according to GAAP accounting (U.S.) and FASB rules. and FASB rules.

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Gift Lesson Skills Training 82

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2020

Today’s episode focuses on that process: how to get started, how to iterate through the process, and how to report on your foundation’s accomplishments. Bivens Foundation about starting with the mission statement, talking to your board, and tracking data. How to track data. Keeping track of data changes. The If/Then tree.

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Measure Podcast Foundation Blackbaud 31

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Programs teams can share transparent impact reports for specific funders. Teams no longer have to operate in silos and won’t have to deal with the daily headaches of complicated reporting. We have some good advice on what to keep, archive, and leave, which is relevant no matter where you’re coming from.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . I end up having so many calls/contacts/lists to keep track of, and so many places to look for information, I feel I never know where to turn next.

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Organization ROI Job Charity 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

See3, YouTube and Edelman have released a new report and guide for nonprofits about using video. The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me). Free webinars are being offered to share the report.

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Benchmark Video Practice Measure 120

Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2023

Here are three reasons why your nonprofit could benefit from coaching services: Reduce Stress and Boost Efficiency In a recent study, most nonprofit professionals reported feeling fatigued at the sheer amount of work that was on their plate.

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Goal Help Fundraising Nonprofit 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s a good idea to announce and share a financial goal for their fundraising campaign. . I’m also wondering if using a fundraising thermometer to track progress toward the goal makes sense. What happens then? . What do you think?

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Goal Share Donation Fundraising 126

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I have noticed that many people on our Facebook page openly offer support to one another and provide advice about grief, caring for a loved one and more. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? I am tracking the ROI. I track the ROI a few ways. (1) Who maintains your social media campaigns? Anything else?

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Cancer Los Angeles Social Media Action 225

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts. Then, there are plenty of opportunities to make the most of your tracking results. Setting detailed objectives helps your organization keep track of how many donations you’re bringing in within a certain timeframe.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Additionally, analytic reporting tools like Arcadia’s healthcare dashboards can help you visualize your organization’s quality performance and determine its efficiency per patient type. Keeping track of these KPIs will help you allocate your resources and create achievable marketing goals.

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Goal Tips Review Map 52

Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For example, you could have weekly, hour-long coffee chats where members drop in to connect, share experiences, and ask for advice. Track engagement in your CRM. As Protech’s guide to association CRMs explains, this software is used to track data, generate reports, and record information about members and their engagement histories.

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Associations Community Create Online 52

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Intuit's popular QuickBooks accounting software can help your religious organization manage essential financial tasks like paying bills; creating invoices; producing reports; and tracking expenses, contributions, and payments. Get expert advice on how to configure QuickBooks for use in your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? We track ROI by looking at a couple of different factors – first we see how much revenue is generated from sites like Facebook Causes, Crowdrise , Social Vibe , etc. What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general?

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Social Media Conservancy Interview Media 210

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s why it’s important to follow advice like the Pareto principle, which advises putting 80% of your resources into cultivating the top 20% of prospective donors who are likely to give you 80% of your funding. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

With the digital communications landscape evolving at light speed we wanted to track challenges, leadership attitudes, measurement strategies and 2014 investment plans. It appears to be an even greater hurdle to adoption than expertise (only 50% reported lack of expertise as a problem) or budget (reported at 52%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets.

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Metrics Method Tech Government 50

Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Track data for your marketing campaigns during these special events to determine which messages are most effective for driving donations. Using this tool, you can track the following donor demographics: Age: Do your donors tend to be younger, older, or somewhere in between?

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action. Final Report. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I spoke to a group of nonprofit in Seattle a few weeks ago at Pyramid Communications who found the advice for taking incremental steps towards improvement very useful. It’s still scary to set quantifiable goals for a project and report on whether we reached them. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. For each of the social media tools you are using, you might want to set up your google analytics so you can track referral traffic. What advice you offer? Which one of these is sending you traffic.

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Social Media Advice Measure Strategy 50

Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

These insights will keep your application on the right track from the start and help you better understand the types of mission-aligned stories that will best resonate with the funder you’re trying to convince. Identify who owns that information and how to access it—generating a report in your CRM , collecting constituent testimonials, etc.

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