Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Steps in the Direct Mail Fundraising Process Designing a direct mail fundraising campaign involves many moving parts, from conducting intensive donor research to enlisting marketing strategists who will develop messaging frameworks and concepts. Research and exploration. Research and exploration. The market landscape.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation. Research top providers. Evaluate the quality, consistency, and relevance of the data to be integrated into your data warehouse. Set concrete guidelines.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gartner’s research focuses on how technology can help restore and strengthen an organization’s financial health. For nonprofit CFOs, this is a clarion call to review business processes and evaluate their existing tech stack. Identify Ways to Reduce Waste.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. One research study found that, given similar price and quality, 90% of shoppers worldwide are likely to switch to brands that support a good cause.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The major thing to remember is that you don’t need to make outright demands or requests, but subtly touch upon topics of interest after careful research and analysis. Also, every page needs to be evaluated on a frequent basis to generate optimal results. Content auditing is essential.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Two Signs Your Mission Statement Needs to Be Updated Experts recommend re-evaluating your mission statement every three years. Step 3: Analyze Your Nonprofit’s Work The most important questions you should answer in your mission statement are who you serve, how your programs are structured, and your impact on your cause.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

And, the first and most critical aspect of selecting a LMS is evaluating your own requirements and objectives. Analyze the security settings and keep your IT team in sync to help you identify the right security structure for your organizations’ need. Also, evaluate the support that the LMS vendor is willing to provide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. This is the research and development of learning materials. Development.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do?

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Different types of nonprofits will have different needs — e.g., associations are different businesses than research and policy institutes — so do what is more directly connected to your mission and goals. Creating a personalization plan Personalization is key to standing out in an increasingly crowded digital media environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. One of our clients did extensive research before they started their nonprofit because they didn’t want to duplicate services that already existed in the community. What need will you address?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether the visitor is known or unknown, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. Creating a personalization plan. Personalization is key to standing out in an increasingly crowded digital media environment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). The community-stated need drives the development, implementation, and dissemination of research activities.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Step 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for Your Non-Profit Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is crucial for non-profits to understand the landscape they operate in and make informed decisions. This step involves researching and analyzing three key areas: the target audience, community needs, and potential competitors.

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Profit Guide Build Metrics 59

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance. The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Before anything else, conduct a comprehensive analysis of your donors’ demographics and psychographics. Identifying your organization’s unique value proposition is key to structuring your year-end campaign narrative. Set up a Monitoring and Evaluation System. What are your donors saying to you?

Campaign 52

Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Information that allows nonprofits to create actionable changes to their workflow and structure. When relying on multiple databases, however, records need to be matched and duplicate records are much more likely to throw off results analysis. Research that relies on electronic surveys and interactive database records.

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Data Technology Database Software 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you implement a new survey system to use on your website and emails but then neglect to develop an easy, scalable way to actually export the survey results to your database for analysis, what’s the point? Here’s a very basic example of a TCO chart detailing the costs of implementing a new CRM platform: Begin researching vendors.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Most often, organizations develop technology plans when they’re in the market for new solutions, with the plan providing a structured approach to the research and purchasing process. Research technology vendors. Step 6: Research technology vendors. Contingency plan for unexpected technical emergencies or failures.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rewriting strengthens logic, structure, and transitions. Overall, this methodology structures regular critical analysis of output to curate higher quality through ongoing refinement. Evaluate if the style and tone fit the intended audience and goals. Distilling ideas into concise summaries presses for greater coherence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. help to evaluate resumes of kids). Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. More than 750 researchers, teachers and leaders from the field gather at the Annual Conference. Research / @ARNOVA. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. 11/16/2016.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

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. It’s prospect research. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel, I got 2:00 Eastern. Is it okay if I go ahead and get us started officially here?

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Grant Build Video Strategy 119

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you’ve conducted a capital campaign or you’ve researched a campaign for one that’s on the horizon for your organization, you’re well aware that a capital campaign is a balance of, you know, it’s an art and a science to ensure its success. . That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready?

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Campaign Video Project Process 93

sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Research done on episodic donors would back this up.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Research – Learn what customers want and how they behave/interact with your brand. To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. Introduction. Conclusion.

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Process Content Digital Marketing 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Data Analysis and Research :: building a culture of data-driven campaigning, designing tests with campaigns and offices, and setting up controlled experiments to optimize and improve performance. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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