sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Restricted research: Inconsistent data restricts healthcare teams’ ability to perform meaningful research and problem-solve. There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Select details for more grant detail.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

R ead up on the latest research. Read up on the latest research. It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. S elf-care prioritization.

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Results Nonprofit PowerPoint Map 109

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Research in the for-profit sector has found that CEOs might make anywhere from six times to six thousand times as much as the median worker. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No. the median compensation among all staff at any given organization).

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 105

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In October, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise. He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change.

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

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. The plan also incorporates a timeline chart depicting when each goal is projected to be completed by.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Grant Research Tip: If a deadline has passed for a funder’s grant opportunity, don’t despair. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Grant Research Tip: If a deadline has passed for a funder’s grant opportunity, don’t despair. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

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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. Secret #8.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Thorough understanding leads to big ideas. Creativity matters only if it sells.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2017

These results are based on the largest analysis of charitable giving data and come from the 2016 Charitable Giving Report. For the first time, this fifth annual edition includes insights into donor demographics, retention trends, generational giving, and significant online donations in addition to charitable giving research.

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Donation Online Blackbaud Chart 59

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

If so, then your organization can probably benefit from conducting market research. Before these assumptions are baked into choices being made or considered, get access to accurate information using market research : who are your constituents and what are their attitudes, preferences, satisfaction levels, and needs? Look it up.

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Research Marketing Method Attitude 20

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m.

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Lesson North America New York Kentucky 52

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Along with an international team at the Social Media Research Foundation , they've developed NodeXL , which turns invisible networks and connections into spreadsheets and graphs.

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Map Network San Francisco Analysis 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Research finds significant relationships between board and organizational effectiveness. in Residence.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Site Share Data Journal 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The National Sleep Foundation, a champion of sleep science and sleep health for individuals, undertook a comprehensive research study to answer the question of sufficient sleep and provides evidence-based guidelines on how much sleep you really need at each age. Drum roll, please… Adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

For nearly three years now, Blackbaud has continued to expand the number of organizations and giving represented in the analysis. Please visit The Blackbaud Index for more information and interactive charts. Research & Trends Blackbaud Index fundraising Online Fundraising' Overall Fundraising Trends.

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Blackbaud Trend Statistics Environment 68

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

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. Some nonprofits are increasingly experimenting with combining wealth scoring, RFM market research, and additional behavioral and demographic data with the goal of building more precise predictive models for mid-level prospects. . However, digital can be a bit trickier.

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America Digital Audience Channel 106

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. The primary research includes surveys, interviews, and observation.

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. Research shows that movement is the killer app for learning. It was great fodder for a reflective discussion.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DonorSearch — Top Fundraising App for Wealth Screening DonorSearch is a prospect research and fundraising tool that can help your organization learn more about your major donors. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. So how can your organization tap into these tools and trends?

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Policy Data Content Share 36

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? What background research was critical to the conversation? Data and analytics have led 38 Degrees to think more clearly about what questions the organization should ask, and to arrange strategy sessions around better objects of analysis. Analytics reports don’t replace meetings.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). According to this analysis, Causes probably falls in the Adapted Patterns/Competition. In my levels of engagement chart, a simple action involves befriending (e.g. Has anyone done any research on this topic?

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Application Social Network Network Chart 50

Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

And because a lot of these organizations are controlling administrative costs by cutting staff, there just isn't much time for additional research. Based on years of biannual report analysis, I find that annual budget, mission focus, and service area, in that order, have the most impact on an organization's grantseeking experience.

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Fund Award Government Taxonomy 62

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you implement a new survey system to use on your website and emails but then neglect to develop an easy, scalable way to actually export the survey results to your database for analysis, what’s the point? Here’s a very basic example of a TCO chart detailing the costs of implementing a new CRM platform: Begin researching vendors.

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Tech Develop Strategy Guide 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart. Recent research in this area distinguishes between ???comments???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up? Led by Ian David Moss of Fractured Atlas , Createquity offers weekly(ish) long format posts on arts policy, research, strategy, and funding.

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Arts Museum Analysis California 29