EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

They’re a powerful tool for communicating your impact, but what makes an annual report effective? One of our favorite parts is their “Pushing Impact” section. Additionally, they detail how their post-abortion care program in Tanzania has impacted health facilities as a whole in the region.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

Depending on the size, reach, and impact anticipated from a technology change, engaging the board of directors is often critical to your success. Does the organization need an independent, neutral third party to assess needs, listen to staff, and provide comprehensive analysis on the best path forward?

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Engagement with content. Analyze which types of content, stories, and communication techniques resonate most with your donors. Understand donors’ giving behaviors. Determine your objectives.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue. Is technology tying your audience in knots?

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way. Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Because of its broad scope and deep impact on both top line (productivity) and bottom line (efficiency) performance, the sales operations department has become a strategic and indispensable component of a mature sales organization, especially in the enterprise, SaaS and B2B space. . Sales Ops: Table of Contents. Performance.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering relevant content marketing. If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With the right strategy, you can engage with your supporters, raise brand awareness, and make a lasting impact. Producing irrelevant content. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. The better the content, the more interaction it will receive. Conduct a content audit.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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Analytics Org Adwords Metrics 52

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Photo by Dwinton.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. The deepest layer is the Dashboard itself—embraced by researchers and policymakers who use the platform to its full capacity, running analysis and downloading multiple data sets. Communicate Impact with Stories.

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Story Data Storytelling Lesson 66

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Relate stories of the impact of legacy giving and provide illuminating data on the nonprofit’s mission and importance. Donor management software consolidates several time-consuming tasks to simplify the process of managing contributions while also providing access to valuable donor metrics.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Post-event analysis yields many more insights and takes less time when your team is able to easily filter through data in your CRM. This data can also help guide the follow-up and stewardship processes, as you can quickly sort bidders by total contributions or other engagement metrics.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. 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.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Two rules that every charity needs to live by: Rule #1: if the data is poor, the content does not matter. Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. Good, meaningful content drives user experience, not to mention SEO success. Tweet the numbers, not just the call to action. Nothing new there.

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Data Time Fundraising Retention 184

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. What improvements would make a significant impact? Come up with juicier content?

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My colleague, Anne Whately, who works for Network Impact watched the web cast and offered to share what she learned: Notes from the Lean Impact Webcast by Anne Whately. Upworthy was another example mentioned as a hypothesis tested by the MoveOn team to see what social issue content could go viral.

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San Francisco Organization Kiva Metrics 104

Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

When writing email content, it’s important to make sure that each email is written for the specific segment to which it will be sent. . Be Authentic + Share Relevant Content. Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . Lead with Your Mission.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Oftentimes, we see that once we start pulling the thread on one element that must be updated, a multitude of other systems and processes follow that impact teams across functions. They are highly impacted by inefficient processes and would like to see digital solutions as a way to make their work lives easier.

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Digital Demonstration Colorado Leadership 87

NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance. The San Diego Zoo’s recent email performance analysis supports this position.

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Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Direct prospective donors to your donation page by adding inline donation forms or lightboxes to your top-performing content. Audit your content to evaluate how well your website meets user search intent.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

QUESTION: Caity talked about calculating the ‘growth score’, then used an example of the benefit of moving that metric just 2%. Does data quality really impact the accuracy of growth scores? Top 40% are committed, middle 30% casual, and bottom 30% episodic. GARY: The simply answer is “yes!”

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Retention Donor Data Advice 148

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? This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. The answer is here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Here’s the description: Do you know what kind of an impact social media is having on your brand, mission, or bottom line? An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Here are a few more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has succeeded in connecting with a younger audience that not only reads its content but is also inspired to take action. Says Giller, “Our theory of change is engaging users around content that shows how being green can reshape our world can empower personal behavior change and ultimately impact society at large.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. But isn’t there at least some degree of conventional wisdom about how to design a co-creative convening that can tap collective intelligence and achieve lasting impact? How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

With events shifting from in-person to virtual and now to hybrid formats, the way attendees experience and interact with event content has also changed. . Table of Contents. **. Attendees came together in a physical location to consume event content while networking with other attendees and exhibitors. The Shift in Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. If you are hungry for the content, see the above deck or these two curated collections of Tweets – one from David Neff and the other from me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Strategy and Work Flow: Understand how the changes impacts your editorial strategy and how you will administrator the page. 2. Administrative Dashboard: Facebook has given us a nice administrative dashboard that let’s us see our metrics and fan activity in an easy to glance screen.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

And being able to get that feeling from more than just the content itself. What are the most important website metrics to measure? The metrics should follow those goals. TJ : Those metrics—clicks, time spent on pages, bounce rate— are a short way of measuring toward your goals and whether tactics are succeeding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Wherever a contact is in their giving lifecycle, an email or a text message can be impactful : as a thank you for a donation, as an update on a recent campaign, or as a digital packet of information ahead of an event, to name a few. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with? 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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Marketing Fundraising Test Nonprofit 198

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

I believe that at any given point you should maintain a running analysis of fundraising metrics for a minimum of three, but ideally five consecutive years. Once you have relevant measures of past performance, build your goals for the current and subsequent years based on the historical analysis. Hopefully it will be the former!

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