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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

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. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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It’s that time of year: your 8-step fundraising data checklist

3rd Sector Labs

Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. Improving your donor retention metrics even a few percentage points can make a world of difference in your long term fundraising success … and stability. Are you using program outcomes data to tell better stories? 5 – Donor retention.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Review tactics like monthly giving programs and recurring emails that generate habitual support. Passionate explaining of impact?

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How Would You Rate Your Prospect Management System?| Part 4

Connection Cafe

I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status. At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff.

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Where do you look for standard metrics?

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Data Only Helps if You Listen to It

Connection Cafe

What charts or slides did the group focus on? They formulate a set of rough metrics and hypotheses, spend the week running small tests, and then convene at the end of the week to summarize what they have learned. The small experiments aren’t designed to undergo academic peer review. This was their “Testing Whiteboard.”

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