Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. So, it was a natural place to turn to for data to use for this research. For our first project,?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recent data from the global consulting firm Spencer Stuart shows that 98% of S&P 500 boards conduct a board evaluation of some type, although only about a third review the board as a whole, individual directors, and committees as part of the process. You’ll want to enlist directors with influence to champion the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Why report love matters Choosing a donor database is a pivotal decision for nonprofit fundraisers, influenced mainly by reporting capabilities. Sounds ideal, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . Candid makes it easy to share your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

Social Media Measurement Tips View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it.

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Social Media Measure Jordan Tips 95

Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews. To do this, the dashboard provides city leaders and communities with an array of regularly updated data that is specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2017

The key is moving from simply collecting data to actually leveraging your nonprofit’s data in the right ways. Here are three important components to thinking like a data driven nonprofit : Find Meaning in Your Nonprofit Data. They analyzed petabytes of data and something popped in the results: Pop-Tarts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I don’t bother with click rates or influence leader board scores. Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Measure actionable items.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Is the tone at the top in alignment with the stated priorities of the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of targeting risk, improving oversight, standardizing business processes, and measuring performance? What reporting capabilities do you have to make sense of the data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis?

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Comprehensive online auction software improves every aspect of the fundraising process, from sending personalized communications using your donor data to generating real-time analytics that measure engagement and fundraising progress. After your virtual auction , study your engagement data and revenue totals. Social media.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

As organizations look for more efficient ways to make, keep and grow relationships, bring in more money, measure outcomes and demonstrate impact, analytics become a key enabler. For brevity let’s decide that it is about technology, techniques and processes for understanding what’s in your data and driving your business practices.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. ” You can see that smaller fan bases had higher percentages – but of course that is meaningless. There’s a lot of confusion.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This global ecosystem includes the digital brand and voice of your organization, the main source of knowledge and data about the programs and issues you work on, as well as detailed information about the audience you are reaching. Are the various tools speaking to one another to share data and inform your decision-making?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. How do you know an “influencer?&#. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Google Analytics – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. I also mention other tools like Friend or Follow or NodeXL both of which make influencer analysis more efficient with the ability to export the data into an excel spreadsheet.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? And since advocacy often involves coalitions, it can be difficult to measure who owns the success—or quite possibly the failure—of initiatives. Remain true to the data rather than bending it to serve your organization’s purposes. The answer is a resounding YES.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Data and Knowledge Centers.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

That’s where data can come into play to help you make better decisions (Netflix data knows exactly what you’re watching!) Data analytics helps you to uncover insights that are otherwise hard to see or understand. Let’s break down several scenarios to show how data analytics can help improve the member experience.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis. Obtrusive observation of people’s behavior—behavior that is deliberately prompted—means that the subject knows they are being studied and measured. Instead, we learned how to better control for the effect in our analysis.

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Content Social Media Analysis Issue 41

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Measurable: Quantifiable. The plan includes plenty of data and research to explain why each principle was chosen.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. Then check out Simply Measured.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. Is this a meaningless set of data or useful? What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others. I have not done this yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Managing your organization’s Facebook page, particularly tracking, content, and engagement can be a time suck, particularly as your network grows. For example, we know that identifying and engaging with super fans/influencers on our Facebook presence is important. To prove I’m doing that, I need data. Scaling Engagement.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using data from The Blackbaud Index , we are able to provide the first insights into fundraising trends for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013. The Blackbaud Index analyzes fundraising data from more than 4,200 nonprofit organizations in the United States based on $13.6 Wondering how fundraising is performing so far in 2014?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

.* Unless you want an entire troop of gorillas fighting you every step of the way, thoroughly involve your team in every part of the process analysis and decision-making. Let them voice their input and objections, and have influence over the process. Measure Results of Change (improvement = do more, decline = change approach).

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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. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics.

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