Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Start with Metrics. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaign. But, it doesn’t have to be that way!

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers. Aggregate data is tricky here—we don’t have enough data points to pull out medians without exposing individual organizations. Just look at these :heart-eyes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. Any good reporting tool should have the ability to aggregate numbers based off the category of your choosing. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

The first time I focused on DIY Community Engagement Metrics and shared lots of templates and examples. Aggregate and promote – be sure you are pulling together all of the contributions from the community and promoting people in real-time. Last week I presented for my second time with Nonprofit Webinars. Case Studies.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blackbaud paid an aggregate purchase price of approximately $325 million. (NASDAQ: BLKB) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Convio, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand constituent engagement solutions. “This is an exciting day for the Blackbaud and Convio teams. .”"

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

Start with Metrics. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaign. But, it doesn't have to be that way!

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Donations and Payments. Every time a donation is made, it travels through various banking APIs as different financial institutions talk to each other. Sites like PayPal, authorize.net , Network for Good, and FirstGiving offer payment and donation APIs to third parties to build applications on. Donor Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

This story is about how we measured our results, and what conclusions we drew from the metrics. The site aggregated the resulting frames into a new version of the video. The site aggregated the resulting frames into a new version of the video. They could trace it, add to it or radically re-envision it.

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See3

JUNE 10, 2009

Gifts to United Way and others who aggregate giving to mostly local, mostly poverty-focused work was up as well. It’s the stories of people and their real lives that get people writing checks and clicking on your donate button. But the overall number of 2% down hides the differences within the numbers. They have some nice graphs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is listens by searching for discussions about blood donations in their local area says Courtney Martin. We've been able to answer questions for people who want to donate blood but don't know the rules, or who have misconceptions. The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Give money or pass this donation link around: [link] love, Luke. I haven't been able to sleep. You can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They use social media to achieve goals of increased transparency and increased donations of blood, time, and money. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. The Red Cross has overcome these hurdles. In that order. This was over two years ago.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

A birthday email, a local event, a service reminder, or an impact report customized to a specific donation amount are all examples of ways an organization can thoughtfully leverage first-party data to meaningfully personalize engagement with supporters. Shift to data modeling with aggregate, cross-channel data.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Sometimes that trust is measured through email performance metrics like open rate, click-through rate, or donor-response rate. A lot of emails we receive in our aggregate donor inbox, and a lot of the examples you’ll see in other blog posts about email appeals, use images. Element 1 – The Sender. Should your entire email be an image?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They can maximize funding by linking donations and gifts to impact, in a transparent and real-time way. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time. This puts fundraisers in a position to prove donations made were used wisely, and help retain and uplevel funders.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. This research will collect and aggregate metrics from standard digital reporting tools, then report on the trends uncovered. We are hardworking to a fault, (maybe take that down a notch.) The work we do matters.

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

If your organization doesn’t currently have a dedicated platform for soliciting online donations—or even if you want to find a new one—then you can sit back and relax ‘cuz we are on the case! It offers a variety of features, including customizable donation forms, email marketing, and text-to-give tools. Join a Neon CRM Group Demo 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What? These metrics are important because every other metric you need will be based on one of these. Let's define these: Visits.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

In fact, 55% of people who engage with nonprofits on social media end up taking an action, while 59% of those people make an online donation. In an average peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, 15-18% of donations are referred directly from Facebook. of traffic to donation pages on #GivingTuesday. $45 Facebook updates per day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Taking Action or Fundraising: You're using social media tactics to spur supporters to action or donate. Measurement. Experiment.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Based on the aggregated data of the 794 participating nonprofit organizations, the research found that: Collectively over the past year, these organizations raised $1.27 The average online donation was $91.70. billion in 18 million transactions and sent 7.6 billion email messages. Each email address is worth $12.46 in online revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. Goal to lead to increased sustained donations rather than episodic giving, increased understanding. DEFINE the METRICS.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. The measurement techniques by Beth Kanter of Zoetica In covering measurement recipes, my points were simple: Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Do include an action (verb) + urgency, such as “Donate Now” or “Support Today” Don’t be vague. Why should people contribute toward your goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. Evidence drawn from social media becomes useful and far more powerful when matched with other data sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip). metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. tons, we did not put any padding in).

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Do include an action (verb) + urgency, such as “Donate Now” or “Support Today” Don’t be vague. Why should people contribute toward your goal?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Starter Google Analytics Dashboard for Nonprofits - Kerry Meyers Prepare a simple dashboard for nonprofit metrics -- acquisition, cultivation/engagement, solicitation, retention; Explain in easy steps who to set goals and implement snippets in donation forms of leading providers.

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