Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. Once you have laid out your top posts and examined their tone, content and format, use any themes that emerged to map out your future posts. Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While mapping out these types of plans is important, you should also focus on taking proactive steps to avoid putting your nonprofit in risky situations in the first place. Most nonprofits collect and store data about their donors, campaigns, and finances. There are many different types of situations that fall under this definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012. ” Now certainly development professionals have a history of using research – think donor research for big endowment campaigns. .” I can not resist playing with online data mapping tools, so I gave America Gives a spin.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 28, 2015

Or maybe it’s just good old-fashioned donor fatigue? The truth may be something more subtle yet profound – namely, the degree to which the nonprofit organization is separated from the end donors. In some instances you may actually have donors who are as much as 4x removed from the nonprofit. Is it the dour economy?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

The Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation came to us with the goal of rethinking its digital ecosystem from the ground up and optimizing how they attract, engage, and grow their target audiences, including donors and supporters.

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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. Community Mapping. This may be other organizations/partners, donors, volunteers, fundraisers, event attendees, etc.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Fundraising and Donor Analytics. 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. Partner with a nonprofit consultant with expertise in data analysis. Web Analytics.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A marketing strategy is essentially your game plan for reaching prospective donors and turning them into lifelong supporters. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals. Acquire new donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Will donors give money to sustain the program?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Know What You’re Looking For: 2 Types of Fundraising Apps There are two types of fundraising apps you should be aware of: nonprofit-facing, and donor-facing. Donor-facing fundraising apps are those downloaded and used by the donor themselves in order to make giving to your nonprofit easier. Let’s dive right in!

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

You work for a nonprofit that is totally stuck in the donor acquisition cycle from hell. You work long hours and spend a ton of resources getting new donors in the door, only to then see them never make a second gift, leaving you right back where you started. What is Donor Management? What is Donor Management? Sound good?

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Your database doesn't track the date of your organization's last communication with a donor, and many of them aren't donating because they never hear from you. Meanwhile half of your donors are unsubscribing from mailing lists because they hear from you too often. Part Two: 5 Steps for Mapping Data. Work on one system at a time.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

On average, we know that over 80% of a nonprofit’s total donations come from the top 12 donors to the organization. Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle. This partners with native donor research tools to help officers discover the highest-value prospects to connect with.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Signing up for a new donor management platform is exciting. Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?) Social Capital. Centralization. Efficiency.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. We can craft a technology-first strategy to help you discover, acquire, and steward your donor base. Explore our custom mobile app offerings in more detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Batchgeo is a free mapping tool that helps you visualize the data that lives in your spreadsheets. Once you’ve gathered data from important stakeholders, completing a SWOT Analysis can help you map the internal and external factors that are assisting or hindering you. Try the free version.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Boston, Massachusetts: Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Nonprofit Effectiveness. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. Look, a goal is not a goal if you don’t have a way to measure it. A crucial piece of strategic planning is setting goals you can measure. It’s a vision.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 4, 2015

All charities need new donors, just like all businesses need new customers. Studies tell us again and again: it is cheaper to retain an existing donor (or consumer) than to acquire a new one. My charity needs new donors. Donors can come from anywhere. Two donor acquisition costs recommendations. Special events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit’s marketing or communication strategies. The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Quite the opposite. What does it look like?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Are you looking at a map or the rearview mirror? How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. Map Metrics. You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As we look to these new findings, we uplift why they matter and how this partnership strengthens our goals to map and improve tracking of the field of philanthropy. Nesting our analysis of human rights funding in Candid’s larger dataset means we can contextualize the numbers. Showcasing the latest findings.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Technology impacts many areas of your nonprofit’s operations, from donor management to fundraising, accounting, marketing, and more. Other stakeholders, such as major donors, long-term volunteers, or community stakeholders. Remember, it’s impossible to accurately gauge your successes without a concrete method for measuring them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Where do donors get trained to think that investment in administration and fundraising is bad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? Inspiration.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. How are you connecting with different donors? You have like major donors. You have the whiteboard that you can map them out. But once a week, we have a great speaker. Today is by no means an exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

I call this type of fundraising campaign the sponsored Tweet approach where potential donors do not have to open their own check books, but instead re-tweet or use a hashtag to leverage a donation from a corporate sponsor to a charity. See Juilos Vasconcellos analysis ). And, that is not a problem, it’s just the way it is.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

Laughing Squid was a donor to the Cambodian Bloggers campaign I ran over the summer, although indirectly via Citizen Agency. It makes it hard to get the information I need to map out the flow of donations and connections. Do you measure influential by the capacity to pass along to people who pass it along? still muddled.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

But, clearly, the campaigns have made social media a central strategy in their Donor, Volunteer and Voter mobilization efforts. Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement.

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