Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, keep an eye toward how your internal and external reports can blend data-driven stories of impact. Start with the goals you set yourself Before searching for data, start with your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery. This data-driven approach ensures that learners receive the best possible educational experience, with high-quality instructors driving engagement and knowledge retention.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

As 2024 kicks off and the world of data and AI continues to rapidly evolve, associations need to adapt to meet the ever-changing needs of members and stakeholders. In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results.

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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. How to glean insights : Having the data is one thing, but knowing what insights to pull with confidence that it is the right picture is quite another.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

We’re talking about data management. The phrase “data management” might make some nonprofit professionals feel a bit intimidated, but it’s something that your organization absolutely needs to focus on. So how does data tie into all of this? Are you ready to take a deep dive into these data management strategies?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The results have me rethinking how mission statements affect a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. We then ran the following studies using this data. We then compared how that emotional polarity score interacted with the organizations’ financial data. . What we found was that the results depended on an organization’s size.

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Neon CRM

MAY 10, 2024

Data from The Recurring Giving Report: Data-Backed Strategies for Sustainable Generosity gives us some insight into when, how, and why monthly donors make the decision to give. But the best thing you can do is look at the data you have on your own supporters to identify when your existing donors initiate recurring gifts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

AI analytics automates much of what a data analyst would do. Since nonprofit organizations usually have more data about donors than they know what to do with, AI analytics can be an efficient way to discover meaningful patterns within large datasets. Sentiment analysis. AI analytics. AI fundraising. In-house AI expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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Global Giving

APRIL 27, 2018

A recent analysis conducted by Joanne Lin, a student in Thinkful’s data science bootcamp and a former GlobalGiving impact associate, concluded that dogs that meet Ginger’s description (name, coat color and pattern, and breed) are most “adoptable.”. The Method. First, she first conducted an exploratory data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Impact management is an ongoing, disciplined approach to using data and evidence across an organization’s programming and operations. Impact management helps nonprofit teams collect and use impact data to make informed decisions about their programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results. You write anything you want as long as it is about measurement and learning from your data. That’s what we’d like to discuss in this January’s blog carnival.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

During my 7 year tenure at NTEN, I''ve had the pleasure of looking at a lot of data, and figuring out ways to use that data in strategic ways to drive the organization and our community forward. Of course, it wasn''t a complete loss as we did learn several valuable lessons in how not to design a data driven experiment.

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

I followed the same methods 1 used to calculate National Equal Pay Day but focused specifically on the total reportable compensation of the 46k women CEOs and 42k men CEOs included in Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report 2. The short answer is yes—*practically* every way I cut the data, the gender gap persisted.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have heaps of data. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

” Analysis : This testimonial emphasizes the donor’s personal connection and satisfaction with the results of their contributions, highlighting the organization’s effectiveness and transparency. Their innovative approach and commitment to results have made a significant difference in our community projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Who or what are you going to compare your results to? Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. Or a practice that swings the other away where there is an excessive investment in collecting gobbly gook data to appease a funder.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Best of all, you really only need to adopt a few proven and productive cultivation and engagement methods to start converting your peer-to-peer event participants into monthly donors. Go All in on Donor Data Every nonprofit wants attendees who will stick with them after the event, but how do you know who is the best fit for your cause?

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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. Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. Source: Monitor Institute.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

That includes web development, technical strategy, fundraising, and CRM and data management— each of which depends on a strong understanding of an organization’s audience to be successful. What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Designing Your Survey Method.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education. As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A guest Beneblog by Max Schneider People don’t typically associate boisterous merengue music with high-tech statistical analysis. Then again, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I heard the playful notes of a street band wafting through the window while in Guatemala with Benetech's Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Guzmán’s testimony in the García case was based on his analysis of this archive which was discovered in a military munitions storehouse near Guatemala City in 2005. Guzmán conducted a comparative analysis between 667 documents pertaining to García that were found in the Archive and estimates from the entire Archive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case The Benetech Human Rights Program uses cutting edge computing methods and statistical analysis to provide objective evidence of human rights violations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I’m always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to make better decisions that lead to greater impact. Data collection may occur from time to time, but there is no formal reporting.There are no data systems in place, such as dashboards or simple collection methods.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2014

Data analysis poses a tremendous challenge for scientists today. While technology has vastly expanded our capacity for collecting massive amounts of information, our ability to translate those mountains of data into practical knowledge has remained quite limited. Become a galactic legend and help further cancer research.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

In this blog, I share what Candid’s data tells us about philanthropic trends for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in general and in reaction to recent anti-Asian hate crimes specifically as well as what to look for in the future. Our data also suggests that others have stepped up their donations to AAPI communities.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In recognition of Equal Pay Day this year, we decided to analyze Candid’s Nonprofit Compensation Report data to estimate Equal Pay Day for leaders of nonprofits. This result is somewhat surprising—and disheartening—given that women are well-represented in the nonprofit sector and that our analyses controlled for job title.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Identification of these factors marked the beginning of our journey to discover how to consistently capture and leverage knowledge, information, innovation, and data…of our constituents, our partners and our staff. Analyze your Results - Complete a qualitative analysis across and within levels of your stakeholders.

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