Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. This can avoid repeating mistakes of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

NP Source is devoted to providing nonprofits with the knowledge and resources they need to grow their digital marketing and fundraising efforts to new heights. Support ⁠— A responsive and knowledgeable support team is essential⁠—during the initial onboarding and beyond.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Establish the most important knowledge to obtain for improving your personnel and workforce as a whole and determine how those metrics would look, then implement them directly in your program. Beyond Return on Investment figures, professionals everywhere can evaluate the true reach and effectiveness of their learning programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions. delivered).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Grant goals include improving navigation and care coordination, expanding capacity for services that treat uninsured and under-insured individuals, and improving individual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. A small number of coherent initiatives with a clear theory of change and metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Knowledge is power and one of the best places to seek knowledge about your organization is by reading the strategic plan. You are meeting regularly with key staff and department heads to evaluate needs and implement solutions. How do you do all of this and never put technology in front of the mission?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Webstats are, of course, important, both as an internal metric to watch, analyze, and improve, and for that matter, to put out there, in conjunction with lots of other data. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

Invest in evaluation tools. We’ll look more comprehensively at evaluation as a core strategy in part five of this series because taking an analytic approach to digital, or any other strategy, is the only way to know what’s working/what’s not working. . Digital-first fundraising enables instant capture and analysis of donor data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The Lean Start Up movement encourages lots of networking and sharing of knowledge. It is common for entrepreneurs to dodge accountability because being driven by the metrics suggested by the funder can get in the way of success. We need to understand that learning is the right unit of progress, not vanity metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Conduct post-campaign analysis. Get Qgiv’s Campaign Analysis Worksheet! Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not. Conduct post-campaign analysis. But we recommend you resist the temptation and conduct post-campaign analysis as soon as your campaign ends.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

The training of donors to rely on financial ratios picked up steam when seed capital, the easy availability of IRS Form 990, the power of the internet, and enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous coalesced to form Charity Navigator in 2001. And those ratios are two of the accountability standards at the Better Business Bureau. But thats okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

EVALUATES community opinions/interest by how often certain posts are read or commented on. I think it would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on a single financial measure. MORE conversation with and between NTEN Members.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. And I think another important component is knowledge. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel, I got 2:00 Eastern. Rachel: Mm-hmm. Steven: All right, awesome.

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