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What 2020 year-end fundraising can tell us about 2021 

M+R

But the past is close behind, and there is plenty we can learn from the 2020 end-of-year fundraising season that will help improve our fundraising efforts in the year ahead. We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. And yes, 2021 has already been roughly 7,000 days long.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In terms of “Action,” nonprofits can deploy crowdsourcing initiatives that encourage many people to contribute to a cause such as through crowdfunding on platforms like Causes or Crowdrise or any of the other numerous social online fundraising platforms. Did you do it in less time than any other fundraising effort? You raise $9,000?

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4 Performance Measurement Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

Tech Soup

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. As funder pressure on social sector organizations to get better at measurement has increased, whole industries have sprung up with pre-developed surveys and data sets from comparison groups. Measuring Too Much.

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Research Friday: The Trouble with Pay Raises

ASU Lodestar Center

Some of it happens through the natural human process of comparison. Variables out of the employee’s control—as anyone who has been fundraising for the last four years in the nonprofit sector knows, employees can’t always control factors that affect job performance. We’ll aggregate the responses and compile the data into a big.

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What It Means to be a Connected K–12 School

sgEngage

Instead of having one source of truth for school and student information, someone on your team will have the responsibility of manually aggregating data from reports that come from disparate systems. You’ll find a software buyer’s guide, a vendor comparison scorecard, and other helpful information from thought leaders throughout education.

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Trends in Sustainer Giving – Key Findings from the 2019 donorCentrics Sustainer Summit

Connection Cafe

This year’s summit included 35 large nonprofit organizations that participate in our sustainer program benchmarking to review aggregate program performance, trends and challenges affecting sustainer giving. Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7 billion in FY2018.

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