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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Healthcare Data Silos Healthcare data silos, or divisions within the healthcare data system, are due to hundreds of applications running at once. Nonprofit Healthcare Data Integration By aggregating data onto one accessible platform, nonprofit healthcare organizations can deliver better results through strategic growth.

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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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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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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

The important point is to have a roadmap and a system in place for navigating it. 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. There are three major exits you can take on the “Highway of Major Gift Giving.”

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the old days, getting data out of one system and moving it into a data warehouse or central data store required ad-hoc scripting, couldn’t accommodate real-time connections and updates, and was really difficult to manage over time. Tools to Help You ‘Get the Data’ The first step in managing data is consuming and transforming it.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

This includes: Email databases Website analytics CRM systems Online giving platforms. 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.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the greatest benefits of the Bloomerang Payments system is fraud management and protection. Fraud management is included in the system, so nonprofits aren’t charged extra for this service. KeelaPay Best for: Nonprofits looking for a payment processing system that integrates with the Keela CRM and fundraising tools.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Additionally, while BigQuery is compatible with many other systems, confirming that your organization’s other data tools will work smoothly with it is worthwhile. Metrics: Select quantitative measurements like Pageviews, New Users, or Conversions. 2021-01-31), relative dates (e.g., 30daysAgo or 7daysAgo).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Over the past couple months we have been working with a few organizations and campaigns to put the system through its paces and begin to figure out how to actually use it and learn what kind of impact it can have. Last week, we launched one of the most important pieces of the system for our team; the back-end analytics dashboard.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. Grant size distribution. We identified grants ranging from $750,000 to $126 million.

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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? Last, AI is helpful for handling non-uniform inputs.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

A well-designed performance management system will, in other words, help an organization become more effective at serving people and at raising money in an increasingly competitive market. Data systems have come a long way from unwieldy Excel spreadsheets and calculators. Designing A Successful Performance Management System.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

In the old days, getting data out of one system and moving it into a data warehouse or central data store required ad-hoc scripting, couldn’t accommodate real-time connections and updates, and was really difficult to manage over time. Tools to Help You ‘Get the Data’. The first step in managing data is consuming and transforming it.

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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. No shame in failing.”. How does your nonprofit define transparency? Is transparency linked to effectiveness?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. aggregating conversations in a way that lets CTX and users analyze the data (know you’re not the only one asking a question, measure interest in ideas, etc.). But what is missing from everything that exists?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The Oxford English Dictionary defines artificial intelligence as the “theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.”. If it can be measured, can it be managed? Fundraising.

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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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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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. Donor Data And Your Nonprofit. 50% use more than 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Nancy Lublin, who was CEO at the time, hosted a book party for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and during a tour of the office, she introduced me to Bob Filbin, DoSomething’s Data Scientist at the time. For the last 18 months, Crisis Text Line has made aggregate data available at www.crisistrends.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I heard about tools for building campaigns and aggregating citizen science data I wouldn’t have discovered at an ocean-themed event because they’re not being applied to coastal problems just yet. Embracing measurement & uncertainty. Look, if you’re reading Beth’s Blog you probably already think measuring progress is a good thing.

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Content strategy is an aggregate of a few best practices—equal parts planning, delivery, and consistency. Taking the time to invest in it produces measurable results over time. By student population, UTPB is the smallest of the nine schools in The University of Texas System. What is Content Strategy? Content strategy is a guide.

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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

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The First C: Content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The research on how compensation systems affect employee motivation is both fascinating and surprising. 1 This will happen regardless of the compensation system, but performance-based pay raise systems, by nature, create unequal, variable pay, which compounds the problem. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. Why should we measure story in a new way? The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. With enough individual stories, the system “tips” and the Mainstream accept the Story. . Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

We need nonprofitwidget.org to emerge not as just another clearinghouse (like widgetbox) but as a toolbox for promotion and measurement for nonprofits who would use this type of resource. A directory of developers with rating systems would help nonprofits connect with folks to build the widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

In a recent post , I mentioned that Jeremiah Owyang pointed out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be an analytics tools to measure this. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing [.].

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The switch is almost complete for email, and is underway for most enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) systems. . If we expect productivity and results, we need to measure them. These measurements will form the basis of employee reviews. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

In 2004 we published our Islands In The Wastestream study, which measured the demand for low-cost computers among U.S. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with either a Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

Privacy-related changes in technology platforms (like browsers and mobile operating systems), regulatory actions, and consumer preferences are forcing the digital marketing industry to rethink how they collect and analyze consumer data to understand how well they’re connecting with their audiences. Measure metrics that matter.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

This collection point may serve as a system of record, a source for analytics strategy, a repository of otherwise irreconcilable data structures, as a historical archive, or innumerable other business functions. Generally, the information is valuable in the aggregate but not at the individual detail level. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ . She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. Lagging indicators -.

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