Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion to become the nation’s largest research, advocacy and services organization devoted to racial justice. Do you use analytics, surveys, testing, interviews? Organizations are always changing. Speaking of metrics, how do you measure your nonprofit site’s performance?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram now report on engagement rates right within their native analytics so be sure to figure out how these numbers are represented. , Amy recommends setting metrics around the responses a post receives.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

This will help you build strong, genuine supporter relationships that stand the test of time. . Invite donors to participate in peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives , volunteer opportunities, advocacy campaigns, and other activities. Keep an eye on your retention rate using the analytics dashboard in your donor management system.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

All advocacy campaigns, social media links, and other engagement opportunities should be relevant and available for your audience to get involved with directly on your website. For instance, an advocacy organization may use a bold weighted, vertical typeface to represent their organization. Engagement opportunities. Typography.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Test and track. No matter what your user journey is, make sure you’re checking the analytics of it to see if there’s a huge drop-off in the flow. Try testing your subject lines and senders––but not all at once. You can test between your organization’s name and a person who might have some name recognition with your audience.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

Use A/B testing to assess the effectiveness of your CTAs. If you’re prompting supporters to get involved with an advocacy campaign , you wouldn’t want to use a long-winded CTA button that says “Click Here to Advocate for Animals In Your Area Today.” Use A/B testing to assess the effectiveness of your CTAs. Your CTAs should: .

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Team DNL’s Nonprofit Technology Consulting At DNL OmniMedia, we work with large organizations and growing nonprofits to help them use technology to reach their fundraising and advocacy goals. Finally, your solution is set up and able to be tested before launch. Explore our custom mobile app offerings in more detail.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

Consider testing an email welcome series. ” Focus on the stories that resonate most with your supporters (here’s where your data, including Facebook analytics, can come in handy). If yours is a social justice or advocacy organization, remember that I am not a policy wonk. Play, experiment, and test.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. Among nonprofit advocacy groups, I often witness a huge gap between the people with access to data and analytics and the people actually empowered to make strategic decisions. Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* This was their “Testing Whiteboard.”

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

For example, a healthcare organization hiring for a data analyst position may list analytics platform proficiency as a preferred skill. Offer a skills testing assessment to measure a candidate’s capabilities. Sometimes possessing certain skills can make a candidate even more qualified even though they may not be required.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

For example, a healthcare organization hiring for a data analyst position may list analytics platform proficiency as a preferred skill. Offer a skills testing assessment to measure a candidate’s capabilities. Sometimes possessing certain skills can make a candidate even more qualified even though they may not be required.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Here’s just a few reasons why email still rules: People who take action on advocacy campaigns via email are 7x more likely to donate money to your organization. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Reporting and analytics functionality includes tracking key metrics and creating custom reports with advanced data visualization capabilities. Advocacy capabilities include click-to-call, one-click petitions, social advocacy, an Elected Officials Lookup tool, and a mobile canvassing platform. Bloomerang.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Here’s just a few reasons why email still rules: People who take action on advocacy campaigns via email are 7x more likely to donate money to your organization. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

For instance, the Ahern Audit runs the “you test” and grade-level tests. This CRM is accompanied by fundraising, advocacy, and marketing solutions. In addition to comprehensive donor profiles and data-tracking technology, they offer other built-in solutions that help organizations with marketing, advocacy, fundraising, and more.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can achieve all sorts of goals, whether you want to increase advocacy participation, boost volunteer registrations, or promote resources to your beneficiaries. Using Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, they’ll keep you in the loop on performance by creating live dashboards and reports that you can reference at any time.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

Many high-level decision-makers understand the role of ethics in technology, particularly as it relates to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics. Consider the line between advocacy and data manipulation, particularly as it relates to fundraising. Understanding Ethical Responsibility.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

You’re in the middle of organizing that virtual fundraiser, planning a crucial advocacy campaign, or just trying to catch up on your email backlog, and there it is: another forward from your boss, bursting with the latest and greatest in artificial intelligence (AI).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The new website also applies insights from usability testing to improve the experience of exploring community data to help individuals and families decide where to live, and exploring data to help community leaders and policymakers serve more of their residents. Silver – Health Care Services Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The new website also applies insights from usability testing to improve the experience of exploring community data to help individuals and families decide where to live, and exploring data to help community leaders and policymakers serve more of their residents. Silver – Health Care Services Website.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

When you have a strong grasp of your audience’s motivations, you can increase donations, volunteer hours, advocacy actions, and the overall public opinion of your nonprofit. Where would you like to test your hypotheses against actual research? Step 4: Pre-test survey questions. Why do nonprofits use market research?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2013

Beyond financial contributions, more younger constituents support the organization through other ways, including participating in advocacy campaigns, walk/run events, fundraise on the organizations behalf, promote them online, and volunteering. Finally, test and test and test some more. charities each year.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

Here are five strategies to help your nonprofit increase your supporters’ value and build relationships that stand the test of time. Analytics data can be especially helpful here. Personalize communication. Few supporters have ever been moved by a thank you message that begins with “Dear valued donor.”

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Salsa Labs’ nonprofit software is all encompassing as they offer donor management, digital marketing, online fundraising, online advocacy, and peer-to-peer solutions! Plus, you can track your communication efforts easily with their dashboard analytics! Their analytics adapt to your organization! Salsa Labs. Why We Love It.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

This guest post was authored by Dennis McCarthy, director of enterprise sales at Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company. You’ll need this for messaging, reporting, and testing. In the donation form, test ask strings and accept credit card only. Until next time, keep testing and sharing new ideas! You need both!

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This was likely followed by testing out one or two project management systems as you tried to find a work-from-home solution that served your nonprofit well. specializes in nonprofit software, data migrations, and analytics. Consider the evolution of nonprofit tech over the past year and a half.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing. Check out some of my favorite resources in the nonprofit space.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

My eyeball generating and tracking toolbox: Google Analytics for free web traffic analysis. Google Analytics provides website tracking quite easily, but spending the time to setup e-commerce functionality for your donation processing allows real ROI calculations to emerge. Mailchimp for discounted email marketing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2016

1:30 PM – Google Analytics to Make Your Organization a Fundraising Powerhouse. Monthly giving still continues to grow and what I love about this session is that it will focus on the growth of existing programs and how organizations should evolve, test and focus on upgrades and retention. It’s that big.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

A: The reprioritization to meet partner needs due to COVID-19 was a test of our adaptability, a major component of our cultural ethos. Our aspiration is to have quality, analytical tools to help us assess needs, priorities and determine solution-based investments that support the nonprofit partners in our area.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Sometimes it can be more effective to request an increase in the frequency of donations rather than an increase in the amount of each contribution, so consider testing different approaches to find the right strategy for your donor base. Be sure to spread awareness of any matching gift programs that might be available to your donors.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2017

You can use analytics to monitor what message or channel drives the most supporter engagement. He says that they are always “testing cultivation and fundraising messaging while remaining sensitive to the unsubscribe and churn rate of our lists.”.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

Reporting and analytics: You should be able to review information about membership trends, event attendance, email campaigns, and other actions using your platform’s detailed reporting and analytics. Customizing your communication will require the support of personalization options, member segmentation tools, and automated features.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

At their worst, they seem like self-deluded cheerleaders for their organization/cause/event, wielding exclamation points instead of analytical rigor. They call it advocacy. They do constant A/B testing to understand what is and isn't working. Only they don't call it marketing.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

For example, Lara Koch of Humane Society of the United States said they ask for a mobile number on all online advocacy action forms. A quick check of Google Analytics will reveal how many of your current site visitors are coming from a mobile device. So at the very least, be ready to do some testing to figure out what works for you.

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