Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Grantee needs assessment A no-cost analysis of your grantee portfolio designed to hear nonprofits' needs firsthand and gauge their readiness to scale fundraising capacity. Impact reporting Track and measure the progress and outcomes of participating nonprofits, demonstrating the impact of your philanthropic investment.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? In fact, for every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average HBCU. HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Collect the information you need about your audience to create effective content. Fundraising audits help you identify organization-wide trends, pinpoint more granular opportunities for improvement, and strengthen the foundation of your marketing efforts. Performing audits.

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Marketing Analysis Nonprofit Audience 52

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. In case you weren't yet convinced, I imagine this clear declaration -- which ties the concepts of business innovation like incremental improvement of steam power to making vaccine delivery more effective -- will move the needle for you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofits, corporate foundations, social enterprises, and organizations working in the social sector can struggle with how to approach understanding their impact: How do they know that changes in their beneficiary group are due to their interventions? How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Program management.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2024

A strategic plan should include a detailed analysis of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), as well as specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. Effective leadership is your secret sauce to making those big dreams happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The result is a shift from ad hoc data analysis and simple (though detailed) record-keeping to a systematic approach to improving their programs and campaigns by using data. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, Gretchen Buhlig, CEO of the ASU Foundation, made the following comment in a recent interview with me related to technology deployment at the foundation, “We have 1.2 Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively.

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Fundraising Analytics Analysis Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. . Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA. Autism Speaks.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. . Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA. Autism Speaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it.

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 97

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder.

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How does it measure its impact? It’s a vital component of effectively delivering results. When technology does more of the heavy lifting – more data analysis, more personalized communication with constituents, more automation – employees have more time to tackle the bigger challenges that require human brainpower.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

A national panel of judges was engaged in reviewing all entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and overall impact. The goal of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation is to care for and cure children through the provision of high-quality care, education, research, and advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

Story 121

Story Data Analysis Measure 121

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Measure and share impact. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Recommendations.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. Conduct effective strategic planning. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Amplitude is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to track, measure, and analyze their data. Mixpanel is an analytics platform that offers a range of features, including data visualization, event tracking, and cohort analysis. Data Set : A data set is a collection of data that can be used for analysis. Website : [link].

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Analytics Tools Wikipedia Track 52

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Successful grant management for your nonprofit, foundation, or federal grant recipient depends on doing the small tasks well, such as internal controls and risk management, while also understanding what opportunities (and threats) are ahead. Step Two: Where are the greatest opportunities and threats? Step Three: How will you thrive?

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Grant Management Award International 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose .

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. An effective mission statement does all of that in a clear, concise, and cohesive manner that aligns with your brand. This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. Remember: Every word counts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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.” Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As we consider what makes a website successful in 2022, here are four strategies we believe are absolutely essential for foundations to consider when approaching a next website redesign. Creating, maintaining, and evolving an effective website for your organization can’t be done by your communications department alone.

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Websites Strategy Change Management Digital 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning: The only valid data is quantitative data. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. Only measure impact, not process. She's currently working on a book on measurement with KD Paine. Do only numbers matter?

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization. Research and policy analysis. Community organizing. Civic engagement.

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. During the strategic planning process, you should identify areas to spend money effectively in ways that increase your fundraising return on investment. Measurable: Quantifiable.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 122

sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Like any fundraiser, an auction will require a thorough plan, dedicated software to streamline your donor management, and a way to effectively market your event and drive engagement even after your event is over. Virtual Auction Software To effectively manage your charity auction , you’ll need all your tools in one place. Let’s begin.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Foundations and grantmaking nonprofits. Are foundation grants down? But measuring your fundraising effectiveness can help you do less, by showing you which tasks to focus on. You can stop wasting your time on strategies that don’t move your organization forward, freeing you to spend more time on more effective strategies.

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Evaluation Fundraising Raise Grant 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. How will they measure success? Some reflections from David here ).

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. What type of impact is the program making, and is it one that can be most effectively increased by scaling up this individual program? McConnell Family Foundation and Tamarack Institute, October 2015, retrieved from [link].

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