Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks Study , monthly giving increased by 11% in 2022, making up 28% of all online revenue. To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Monitor data and adjust your appeals. Monitor data and adjust your appeals.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Shows ad performance data like impressions, spend, and demographic reach. Google Ads Transparency Report: [link] Provides ad spend data across different advertiser industries and political entities. Microsoft Advertising Transparency Reports: [link] Provides spend data and ad creatives for ads across Microsoft platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully.

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Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

From stats on conversion and acquisition to retention and supporter experience, check out the infographic below to get a peek at the data from the 2021 report. Download the full report for a more detailed analysis and findings. . Benchmark Your Fundraising Performance. . Achieve Success Backed by Timely Fundraising Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This year, the need to check in is even more critical, as 2023 will usher in a whole new paradigm for a core part of digital strategy: web metrics. UA has been a reliable benchmarking tool for more than a decade, and many organizations have comfortably adopted strategies and reports that deliver data to inform their broader digital strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Sometimes benchmarking studies can be more rigorous and survey an entire field. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . Track your own data. Do more testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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M+R

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a tasty fusion of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. We hope you’ll join us and participate in our upcoming 2023 M+R Benchmarks. Mostly, that involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will stir together (anonymously!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

June 24, 2–3:30pm ET: “2021 M+R Benchmarks: A Deep Dive” with The Nonprofit Alliance. This year’s annual M+R Benchmarks Study includes front-page news, long-form analysis, mild-mannered reporting, and even a crossword puzzle all about the newest news and topical trends affecting nonprofit digital marketing, advocacy, and fundraising. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

We are inspired by the work of our partners and the clients we support as we review this year’s 9 th Employee Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility industry report , covering data collected from January-December 2020. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews. To do this, the dashboard provides city leaders and communities with an array of regularly updated data that is specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Few things are as important to successful fundraising teams as clean data around your prospect portfolio and moves management. Identify Your Priorities Define and Document Your Pro c edures Prepare Your Database Review Existing Portfolios or Assign New Portfolios Train Your Team Establish a Feedback Loop Track and Review Your Metrics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data, please don’t hesitate to contact us. .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters? These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. Collecting and analyzing data can seem like a time consuming and daunting task that takes away from an organization’s day-to-day work fulfilling its mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Data Analysis. What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? How do you analyze your social media data? What’s your “sexy&# social media metric? Respond here.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before we get into specifics, some business about how we looked at this data: because Giving Tuesday jumps around, we can’t just look at December revenue year over year and keep things apples to apples. Aggregate data is tricky here—we don’t have enough data points to pull out medians without exposing individual organizations.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A deep-dive analysis of your current donor database is the first step you’ll need to take. We recommend you start with these 7 Key Database Metrics. These are the types of metrics you can share to help make the case for the much-needed investment in acquisition. Set your acquisition goals and budget.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

The world is going to face economic challenges and there are various key metrics to monitor as this happens. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 4: Define your benchmarks. Step 5: Define your metrics. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We also just started reporting on the metrics we already had available (web analytics, FB insights, email campaign stats) and are now moving towards more of a “digital content services&# model with metrics related to specific campaigns, etc.&#. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In other organizations, those that are lucky enough to have M&E staff, there is a disconnect between measurement practices for programs and communications. It is important to think of measurement integrated into everything the organization does – I’ve called it being data-informed.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

As you begin to think about your strategy and goals for next fiscal year, it’s good to spend some time understanding the current climate and key metrics within higher education fundraising. Unlike some metrics in this analysis, there is little difference between public and private institutions. .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2017

In our 2017 M+R Benchmarks study , we found that on average, a nonprofit will reach just 8% of its fans with a post that isn’t promoted. . Nonprofits need a better metric than number of fans that more accurately reflects how many users you can expect to reach. In our Benchmarks study, the average nonprofit had an ERA of.225,

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn from my mistakes and create better charts for your audience – to show fundraising results, organization’s impact or benchmarking. Some typical shapes we use to encode data are: rectangle, lines, or circles. We can encode any data by turning the measured value to an appropriate length.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

She went to say that she thinks too many folks are focused on the Facebook Like as the social media success metric. “Who cares? The way to do that is with statistical factor and ANOVA analysis which definitely requires an advanced level of practice and enough data.

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