Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This shift was marked by commitments of increased funding, greater flexibility in grantmaking practices, and a focus on social and economic systems transformation. My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift?

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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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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. His Fitbit (pictured above) tracks his heart rate – and that wristband, you can’t buy – it was custom designed by his enigneers.

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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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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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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

At Candid, we have been able to track down this information using a combination of automated and manual searches. 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.

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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. All of the above sounds great, right?

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Automation Tools CRM and Automation Systems Many nonprofits use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to collect contacts and manage all donor information. The CRM is the single source of truth for the organization, tracking all engagement for each donor. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

What kinds of data should be tracked from these interactions? 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. Starting to measure engagement. At that time, we were using shadow databases, or informal notes to track who was engaged.

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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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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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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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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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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. And for good reason. I’m guessing most.

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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! What do you think?

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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. To address these challenges, the GIIN will continue work initiated by The Rockefeller Foundation , Acumen Fund , and B Lab to advance a common framework for defining, tracking, and reporting the performance of impact investing capital.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Automate tasks like email distribution and task assignment, access the platform anywhere with mobile functionality, and set up rules and alerts to keep the team on track. We have forms to track workflows and the status of tasks over extended periods of time for a lot of different administrative functions.” more services delivered.

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

In addition to everything offered under Essentials and Impact, Empower comes with the following functionalities: Live chat & phone support Radius search Priority support Unlimited active workflows Transaction Fees: Neon CRM does not charge any per-transaction fees on donations made through the system. Join a Neon CRM Group Demo 2.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? Understand What You Want to Track.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Use a ranking system to assign importance to various pain points and areas for improvements in your current tech. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides. Remember, it’s impossible to accurately gauge your successes without a concrete method for measuring them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based? Make your objectives "SMART" (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound). Email will probably not become extinct - so it is important to continue to track its effectiveness. Measurement.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. Build a monitoring system for your needs. Egg Timer: Track your time, because working on social media can give you ADOLAS : AD - Oh Look, A Squirrel! Funnel: Measure the whole funnel!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? But that would be a lot of content! Take your pick!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We measure the success of the campaigns based on the number of social mentions they generate, and how much they elevate the baseline of attention for each issue. Once Shark Week was over, we tracked our aggregate impact with our social mention tracking system in Radian6 , and shared the impact with the Sharkinar participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.) We set up tracking with hashtags and keyword searches. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. URL that would track the spread of the campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. The goal: greater open rates.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She has also co-authored two books on using social media: “ The Networked Nonprofit ” with Allison Fine and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit with KD Paine. It also means that privacy issues -- when there is a person on the other end of aggregated data are going to be much more of an issue." " Find out more here.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The issues here are well-known: school systems are budget-strapped, parents are desperate, an adversarial relationship inevitably ensues, and children hang in the balance. I do think, though, that the addition of some standard measures, tailored for known conditions, would add to it. Update research and re-disseminate, etc.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks. 9</sup).

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