Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Below is my fully human-generated reflection.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again. We need better tools for reporting, analysis, and business intelligence.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Because no one wants board members approving budgets that they don’t fully understand or making decisions to expand staff when they aren’t clear if the budget can withstand additional salaries and benefits or voting on fundraising approaches when they don’t understand cost/benefit analysis. Here’s how you can build that board. It’s not sexy.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Here are some highlights from what we learned, followed by more in-depth analysis: . The data gathered shows that funders are continuing to pay attention to current events, including the pandemic. . Overall giving dollars increased from FYE 2020 to 2021 by 12% among 519 survey respondents who provided funding data for both years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Data Strategist, Grist. Clayton Aldern leads data journalism at Grist. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Learn more about the fellows and why they are joining Impact Labs.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Advocacy and Policy Support: Foundations possess a unique position of influence and can leverage their voice to advocate for systemic change. When nonprofits have meaningful, local data to develop programs and services to address localized needs social issues can be addressed more intentionally and systematically.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app? Google believes GA4 better predicts audience needs and provides better data. What happens to my existing data? Which visits lead to engagement? How do I switch from UA to GA4?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2022, Forum One launched a new, redesigned Livability Index website and data explorer. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, Forum One launched a new, redesigned Livability Index website and data explorer. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve.

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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. Creating a personalization plan Personalization is key to standing out in an increasingly crowded digital media environment. Look at your data and use it to segment your audiences.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Use paid media to target your ideal donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org is a data-informed organization that uses a ladder of engagement not only to guide its content and social media integration strategy, but uses measurement at each rung of the ladder to ensure that they are getting results. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Too often, health data is locked in massive datasets that are opaque to all but epidemiologists and statisticians.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . 6) Funding or Engaging in Advocacy

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Competitors analysis. Competitor analysis can be persuasive as it shows companies that businesses of all sizes, from worldwide operations to mom-and-pop businesses, offer workplace giving programs. You can access this resource here and use their free template to kickstart the policy creation process. Wealth indicators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given that nonprofits must operate in a wide variety of complex environments, they must work diligently to continuously create innovate strategies to meet the needs and expectations of their diverse stakeholder populations (Benjamin, 2012). Self-Regulation Policies. Ethics,” 2017). Ethical Leadership. She holds a B.S

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cloud-based applications are more secure from cyberthreats than a typical nonprofit server environment is. No data is 100 percent secure, but the major cloud services are probably the best security we have. No data is 100 percent secure, but the major cloud services are probably the best security we have. Get Cloud Services.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Sophisticated protection stops emerging threats by analyzing the behavior of a given program or process in a virtual environment before it's executed. Critical personal data is never transmitted, USB flash drives are scanned by default, and when you delete sensitive files, no trace is left behind for snoops. Two-way firewall.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

And there should be board policies about how reserve funds can be used and the authorization for such use. In particular, a study suggests that boards of effective organizations are more involved in strategic planning, policy formation, financial planning and control, resource development, program review, and dispute resolution.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Your donor, member, supporter, and so on data is gold to your organization. Idealware: “The data system in a public cloud is "multi-tenant"--tenant as in big apartment building. PCI Compliance requires a vendor to follow prescribed security management practices and policies. Author: Cheryl Black.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Not the ones with the fake contests and contrived conflicts, but the ones that pit you against the weather, the wildlife, and the natural environment. Contrary to what you might think, internal controls are not about writing a bunch of policy or procedure documents and sticking them on a shelf somewhere.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Gathering data is of vital importance and in this effort you may also wish to use data management tools available through your donor database. . Analysis of your environment. Once more data management software will greatly assist in this process. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On the federal grant side, and increasingly on the foundation side, new regulations and policies have made survival as a grant-funded organization more challenging by adding additional layers of accountability and complexity for grant recipients. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). The business environment is changing and the threat posed by either the theft of your donor, constituent, and also employee data, or even the theft of your own organization's data can have devastating impact upon your operations.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide customer support for segmentation and data analysis questions. . Hands-on experience working with the following: relational databases, SQL queries, data views/perspectives, and stored procedures. . Strong data management service bureau experience in a campaign production role. . Click Here to Apply.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

Firms limit their audit of expenses to comparing current year to prior year or budget, which is customary in a for-profit environment, simply because most audit programs are not tailored to nonprofits, or auditors do not have sufficient nonprofit experience." Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit. More Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Data-related experience . Experience working with data sets . Ability to work and self-manage in a mostly – remote work environment (comfort with video meetings, self-paced work, etc. ) . Contribute to Data Migration or Integration service offers (for Data Analyst role) . and functionalities.??? . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

For the Environment: An Inconvenient Truth. Filtering” is done through respondents answering a short set of quetions specifically designed to turn the respondents’ interpretations into data that is organized and stored in a database. The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. Then comes isolated action.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

The flow creates continuous improvement and continuous analysis. Data is a word used by proactive smart leaders. Data is what gives nonprofit executive directors, CEOs and board members the ability to make reasoned, educated decisions. Data is the pencil that draws the blueprints for strategic planning.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The caveat is that the data can’t be exported. It has more search filters and returns more data. The caveat is you need to do a little programming to get the data, there are still limitations to bulk export, and the accuracy and completeness of the data is still questionable.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Governments also need to create an enabling environment for sustainable enterprises to prosper, invest and create decent work opportunities for all women and men who are above the minimum age for work. Enhancing Data-Driven Policies and Programmatic Responses. Ending Child Labour in Agriculture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. But, to make that happen, we need to recreate the favorable copyright policy environment we enjoy in the United States. The first is in using data at scale to influence the human rights debate.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Who are we in the context of our community and the environment? Some questions to consider, how much have we shifted our program due to changes in the external environment? And going into a deep fiscal analysis and commissioning outside research, all of this kind of thing. . Who are we? So you want to look at that. .

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Ability to work and self-manage in a mostly – remote work environment (comfort with video meetings, self-paced work, etc. ) . Develop and use business analysis skills to document user stories, requirements, configuration diagrams, and other solution documentation . Education and professional experience .

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Tech Soup

MAY 29, 2017

Protection against malware and data theft is more important than ever for nonprofits. It also allows administrators to manage server group policy security settings and create reports using data from multiple servers within a group. Regular backups protect organizations against a data-loss disaster. Check out Linksys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

getting policies passed. Another key result area is getting policies passed, which requires getting the attention of policy makers. They were invited to bring moms to the White House to talk with policy people about their experience with Medicaid. garnering attention from all media through creative engagements.

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