M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . While the overall mix favored fundraising ads, there were stark differences in strategy and results for nonprofits of different sizes. . Thanks for reading— let us know on Twitter if you have any questions. Read time: 2 minutes.

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Benchmark Studies Hunger FAQ 88

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. When it does become unstable, that means it’s time to switch to a different model.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

i While the survey focuses on salary rather than total compensation (which is a more holistic way to look at the full take-home differences), it provides a helpful metric to use as a baseline. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No. of grantmakers 0.2

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The nonprofit and education leaders I work with each have a different definition of “digital transformation.” When technology does more of the heavy lifting – more data analysis, more personalized communication with constituents, more automation – employees have more time to tackle the bigger challenges that require human brainpower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The guide is organized by four key questions and includes a mix of practical tips and case studies featuring Jewish organizations and others. The four key questions are: What data to collect? The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. How to collect data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Here are some tips on how to directly show your supporters the difference you’re making. If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. Break it down. Make it visual.

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Money Donor Chart Ratio 64

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You should also do this with donors at different levels. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Different nonprofits define the levels differently, so what qualifies as “mid-level” in one organization may qualify as “major” at another. The questions we need to ask go beyond the immediate revenue numbers. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. Let’s go back to the core questions we started with.

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. But wait, paper???

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Facilitation Arts Pakistan Exercise 139

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Use different links on different sites to see what really gets people clicking through. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. After three presentations in such a short amount of time there was going to certainly be questions.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

In brief, to ask more than once and in different places. Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? Donors might be asking questions, you might have to do a special outreach. What is a multi-channel fundraising? donations start coming in.

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Campaign Fundraising Channel Mail 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” Denial: You can’t measure social media! Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? A more participatory approach, and one that Alan Gunn uses, is to crowdsource provocative questions from participants. Participants volunteer their question for the Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The amount of hours per night varies from person to person and is different based on age. While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Notes and Resources.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. They also look at qualitative data, including doing a content analysis of their member feedback. There are tools like Hubspot that allow you pull in data from different sources.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Care2

JULY 16, 2010

2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Collaborative Benchmarking Analysis); * The average online gift was $144.72, according to BlackBaud though M&R’s benchmark study noted that the average one time online gift was $81. This was the opening question Jocelyn Harmon (Director of Nonprofit Services for Care2.com

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Online Practice Fundraising Benchmark 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. But questions disappear if they are not captured and paid attention to.

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

It was a fantastic opportunity to identify similarities and differences between building networks of organizations as well as individuals - and of course how to weave together the two. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. I also need to put classical music on my Ipod and concentrate in a different way.

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Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions.

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Social Media Time Media Remix 101

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. I was sharing with Steven earlier, you know, we’re working in about 20 different countries and are managing $50 million in development costs.

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Campaign Video Project Process 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I don't always get a chance to do pre-workshop surveys, but in this case I had the opportunity to add two questions onto the registration form. I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time.

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Instruction Instructional Social Media Training 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

At Tableau, we want to empower nonprofits to make a difference with their data. That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart. Part 1 covered some basic terminology and why you shouldn't use a pie chart. First, let's look at the line chart below.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. I’ve had success with an online recruiting tool called Ethnio that serves your website visitors a pop-up with a few screener questions.

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Design Process Web Test 36

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Teen 111

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower. When board recruitment comes up on the agendas of most boards, the discussion usually starts with the question, ‘Who do we know?’ percent of the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

In so doing, organizations will be better positioned to move to a different kind of reporting, one that highlights impact versus efficiency, and one where costs per outcomes are known and shared. Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad. More Resources.

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San Francisco Ratio Nonprofit Interview 36

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Tried to create a report and couldn't find a chart or graph that would clearly illustrate your point? Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years. But what about bar charts?

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Chart Library Time Analytics 36

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

Of interest is the question, "What are important macroeconomic finance indicators for nonprofits?" The third section of the study addresses the role of the governing board and asks and answers the following question, "Do board function and performance affect organizational effectiveness?" Patricia Lewis' role as Sr.

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