M+R

APRIL 7, 2021

Here it comes, hot off the presses: The 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study will go live on Wednesday, April 21. Visit mrbenchmarks.com on April 21 to get the front-page news, the longform analysis, the mild-mannered reporting, even the crossword puzzle. 2021 Benchmarks UK FAQ. 2020 M+R Benchmarks Study—A Data Odyssey: The Recording.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recent data from the global consulting firm Spencer Stuart shows that 98% of S&P 500 boards conduct a board evaluation of some type, although only about a third review the board as a whole, individual directors, and committees as part of the process. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 Those extremely specific goals kept us on target.”

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to Marketing General Incorporated’s 2021 Marketing Benchmarking Report, 50% of associations surveyed believe lack of engagement is the top reason members didn’t renew. Start by looking at your data from a wide lens. This will help you answer the questions, “Are we on the right track?” “Are

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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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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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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Data can only become knowledge when we engage with it in a socially connected way.

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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.

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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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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. We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Does sharing link with a 2-sentence commentary work better than sharing with a question?

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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. More than 9.4

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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. Data and analytics also matter because they are often requested from funding sources such as foundations and grant providers.

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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. More than 9.4

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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. Data is critically important to the success of a portfolio management and moves management program. Gathering all of the important information will help create trustworthy data.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ask yourself if these tools have a unified visual voice and brand and if they are speaking to one another to share data and inform your decision-making. Here are some questions to answer when looking at forming a personalization plan: Why are you personalizing? Look at your data and use it to segment your audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Data Analysis. How do you analyze your social media data? Schenekenberg. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Respond here.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Reach out to candidates with questions if you need additional context to make a decision. While there are many consulting firms, nonprofits seeking a partner to assist with their digital strategy, data management, software implementation, marketing, and ongoing technology maintenance should consider DNL OmniMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. The Importance of Benchmarking.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’ll share benchmarks from other nonprofits you can use to evaluate your own communication. You’ll walk away with some practical questions to address within your own nonprofit’s marketing strategy, and what next steps are necessary to move your digital advertising strategy forward. Rethinking Your Digital Ecosystem from the Ground Up.

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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. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Let’s explore this idea further.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This global ecosystem includes the digital brand and voice of your organization, the main source of knowledge and data about the programs and issues you work on, as well as detailed information about the audience you are reaching. Are the various tools speaking to one another to share data and inform your decision-making?

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. But why aren’t more organization’s doing it? Where to go from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

advertising, surveys, reporting, and business analysis. OK — confession time — I love data — but the data from the State of Grantseeking Survey has real, valuable results that can impact the grantseeking success of nonprofits. Participant-chosen survey questions are the most interesting! She works with.

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Survey Grant Comparison Analysis 56

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Benchmarking Major Gifts. According to a new benchmarking study sponsored by the Association of Philanthropic Counsel and funded by MarketSmart “ major gifts ” haven’t yet found their equitable place among donors or the non-profits that receive them. Asking questions like “How large is a major gift at your organization?”

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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. . In our Benchmarks study, the average nonprofit had an ERA of.225, Now the big question: How does your nonprofit increase your earned reach average? Enter the Earned Reach Average, or ERA.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Survey questions sought to understand understand individuals’ preferences regarding traditional and digital media for donating, volunteering, and engaging with nonprofits. > Additional commentary and analysis of the study’s results from the recent Charity Dynamics/NTEN joint webinar also is available via recording online here.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

For nonprofits and other social good organizations faced with difficult decisions, fundraising investments are often the first budget line items to be questioned. By revisiting these lessons, we can assemble a valuable toolkit to aid social good organizations as they navigate this period of uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

” Many admitted to being in the “delight” stage – that collect data but don’t know how to make sense of it. Those that found themselves at measurement love – using data for decision-making said that it goes hand-in-hand with their organization’s learning culture. Learning Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Step 4: Define your benchmarks. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

The way to do that is with statistical factor and ANOVA analysis which definitely requires an advanced level of practice and enough data. So THEN the problem is figuring out whether the relationships have improved due to social media or something else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. We've done analysis that shows a fairly standard "engagement curve" for when and how engagement metrics show up for any post.)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. The culling, organizing, and assessment of your event data is where the real work happens, and where the real insights emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. One possible outcome is stagnation in innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been doing biannual survey of nonprofit technology benchmarks for its regional nonprofits (Southwestern Pennsylvania) for the past ten years. I remember how excited we were when the first data was published ten years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation.

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