TechImpact

JUNE 12, 2014

The best news is, all of these highly important attributes of an effective organization are measurable as a result of the cloud and big data working in tandem. Here are 3 ways nonprofits can utilize cloud computing and big data to plan, measure, and deliver more effective and meaningful organizational plans. Outcome trackers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nonprofit Healthcare Data Integration By aggregating data onto one accessible platform, nonprofit healthcare organizations can deliver better results through strategic growth. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Impactful multi-channel marketing. Doing so will unite your team and expand your impact.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before. Whether it be a CRM , GoogleAnalytics , or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial , measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. But, they don’t call it “Big Data” for nothing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Demonstrating impact, an essential part of any impact management strategy for nonprofit, and making change for good is the raison d’etre of every organization. With an increasing level of pressure to report on impact, taking a single step to meet this requirement is a great start. How does impact relate to both of these trends?

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

These officers average four months or less between creating proposals and closing gifts; in some cases, this demonstrates a less measured approach to major gift solicitation. MGOs who are not as intentional—Blackbaud research categorizes them in the “opportunistic” group of fundraisers — see less efficiency in their cultivation.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can your nonprofit even measure its return on investments (ROI)? Constituent relationship management systems (CRM) are a great way to automate data collection, aggregation, and build financial, business, and operational reports–all of which are going to help you the next time you meet with your board.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

With this wealth of data, Peter Drucker’s maxim , “What gets measured, gets managed,” has never been more apropos for nonprofits as 2020 nears. Those aforementioned data sets aggregated from donors and supporters include previous individual donation amounts and patterns, event attendance records and wealth amount. Fundraising.

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. The post 5 New Google Analytics Statistics For Nonprofits appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Use funnel conversion tools.

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Over the past 8 years, the commercial sector’s focus on big data and data processing has had a huge impact on the availability and affordability of cloud data warehousing. What used to be expensive and hard to set up and manage is now much easier and affordable.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Start with Metrics. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. What do you point to when funders, donors, board members and the community ask if you are making a difference?

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

In an ideal world, organizations can be aggregating these data points to build a comprehensive marketing strategy; but in reality, most organizations aren’t fully utilizing basic data sources to make informed decisions about their marketing. How will you measure success? Examples of basic personalization.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Whether people respond with pictures, video, or text you have engaged them at the same degree as you would have with the apple, but you also have all of those responses that you can aggregate and share back in real time, bubbling up the energy of all those participating and following along.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

Alexis: The state of Hawaii mapped its infrastructure, with overlays of potential climate impacts and considerations of vulnerable populations, allowing them to run scenarios and test hypotheses for different preparedness measures. If there’s historic rain, who feels that impact the most?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The mystery of creating real impact using Facebook has eluded many organizations for years now. To all who have endured my rants, you will be shocked to hear me say that I believe Facebook finally has the pieces in place to make a major impact on organizations ability to acquiring and building productive relationship with supporters.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I've been having a very enjoyable time, importuning all sorts of people I admire to address some of the topics that are close to CTK's heart: nonprofit technology , nonprofit management, best practices, outcomes measurement, impact assessment, nonprofit advocacy, social media, and mission focus.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Over the past 8 years, the commercial sector’s focus on big data and data processing has had a huge impact on the availability and affordability of cloud data warehousing. The post Tools for Nonprofits to Effectively Manage and Analyze Their Data appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lucy talked about how technology is driving the shift to a social economy and picked out a few themes, pointing out it is not the technology itself but how we use it. She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2015

Fitbit and fitness/health apps offer many benefits — they help us become more aware of our healthy habits by measuring and producing data. According to Park and FitBit aggregated data, employees are 40% more active when wearing the devices and the activity has a direct link to reducing health insurance costs in workplaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. ” A nonprofit example is Engineers Without Borders that makes it impact assessment reports available on its web site.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For tips on how to do just, we turned for advice in this week’s post to our nonprofit friends down in Philadelphia at Tech Impact. Thanks for always keeping us up to speed, Tech Impact! There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Additionally, we’ll cover GA4 retention considerations that may impact your decision. We mention these two considerations together because we often find that an organization’s answer to whether it will retain its GA4 data beyond 14 months significantly impacts whether and how it should retain its UA data.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

” Impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, and global NPOs come together with the goal of furthering social, environmental, and economically sustainable solutions. Among this year’s many themes, I want to highlight two: (1) Impact Investing and (2) Measurement & Evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. Qriously could be used to test different messages and groups to measure where responses are strongest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Communications have more impact. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Increase engagement on social channels. Amplify peers’ efforts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. All foundations and their nonprofit partners can benefit from measuring, tracking and reporting on outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Digital Trends. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

We're headed to a place where: Technology is essential to the success of every aspect of our work, Technology is in the hands of nearly every one of our clients, volunteers, and stakeholders , Your staff and clients are innovating uses of technology in the field for you, It is easier than every to share, collaborate, and aggregate.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

As we worked through how we could add value to our alumni’s lives, we realized we needed a way to define and measure alumni engagement. About the same time, CASE released an alumni engagement whitepaper which identified four primary areas to measure alumni engagement: Volunteering: being a career mentor or serving on a board.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

In its simplest form, don’t underestimate the impact of addressing somebody by name. 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.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Board member performance needs to be assessed at all levels, and then the aggregate data reported back to directors. Close the feedback loop. How can a team improve if it doesn’t know how it’s doing?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

At everydayhero we believe it’s centered around the supporter being able to quantify their giving, ultimately requiring tools that allow supporters to measure all of the ways they give. So what is this third wave, the next generation of online giving?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Senders have a huge impact on the trust that is being built with a donor. Sometimes that trust is measured through email performance metrics like open rate, click-through rate, or donor-response rate. Other times, we might measure that trust with the amount of replies we get from an email. Element 1 – The Sender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

What is measured you ask? . This number measures the aggregate count of Wall posts, Likes, Discussion posts and comments on any content such as photos, videos, notes or links in the past 7 days. That score measures how engaging your posts have been to users in the last 7 days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Some are calling it impact investing. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf She’s launched a policy project you can read about here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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