Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true when it comes to budget projections that will help inform the strategy of your organization in the coming year. Using this as a guide when assessing your revenue projections will help prioritize your investments. It’s no wonder that many nonprofits currently need help projecting accurate revenues!

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After completing your marketing analysis, it should be clear what your best channels are and who your current customer is. This is something you wouldn’t have paid much attention to without an analysis shining a light on it. Need help with that? This knowledge will help you introduce new marketing channels into your strategy.

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Marketing Analysis ROI Picture 246

sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Strong data governance and data management can help grantmakers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available. Data formats vary widely, making consolidation and analysis a time-consuming and error-prone process. Data Quality: What measures are in place to ensure data is accurate, complete, and consistent?

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here are some member retention best practices to help you hold onto your members. This is critical for proper analysis and strategy refinement. These metrics can help your association learn more about various members, which, in turn, enables you to customize retention efforts for a specific group and boost their engagement.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In addition to helping make the study, you’ll receive an individualized analysis comparing the data you submitted for your organization to other organizations of your size and type. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. This information can help inform their own ad campaigns and identify opportunities for differentiation. How Should Nonprofits Use Ad Libraries?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time?

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Goal Fundraising Pledge ROI 300

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It will also help them build better relationships with major donors and their broader donor base. Data Analysis for Insightful Strategies Data analysis is at the heart of artificial intelligence in fundraising. Predictive analytics helps organizations expect donor behavior. This will help them do so with confidence.

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Donation Data Fundraising Analytics 148

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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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. This feedback will help you make informed decisions about course improvements, instructor selection, and program enhancements so you can continuously improve your learning experience.

Analytics 169

Analytics Education Program Impact 169

Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you can look at historical or yearly trends on a graph to identify patterns, but by drilling deeper into the analytics you can uncover insights to help put your data into action. Understanding these motivations can help drive marketing messaging to encourage other first time attendees. Is it the networking opportunities?

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Associations Data Registration Analytics 318

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Nucleus data analytics platform has two dedicated and ready-to-use packages for precisely these types of analysis: Learning Management and Certifications. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. ” – Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Measure Social Media Media Map 105

Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. Advanced features enable you to compare program impact, conduct in-depth analysis, and automate report delivery to stakeholders.

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Tools Management Los Angeles Demonstration 52

NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Instead, it brought in independent experts to understand why the measurements were so different.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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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

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. AI tools for fundraising When it comes to AI for fundraising, there are many tools that can help you succeed in your mission.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Analysis Donor 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Measure Social Media Media Metrics 115

The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the help of impactful testimonials, you can turn compelling narratives into a driving force for your mission. They help potential partners, supporters, and beneficiaries see the tangible outcomes of your work. This specificity will make the testimonials more relatable and compelling.

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Story Guide Support Analysis 104

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. This helps inform decisions about content topics.

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 97

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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Measure Roles Support Literacy 99

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? How closely should they track those changes? But first… What is impact management ?

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission. The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization.

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Donation Language Homeless Statistics 137

Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

Artificial intelligence works through machine learning, which involves the discovery and analysis of deep patterns in datasets. Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. Data analysis for planning campaigns is the perfect example.

Course 130

Course Fundraising Analysis Mail 130

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. Point a Compass to the Future Regular updates on the status of governance can be a compass to help the group stay on the right path. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 Those extremely specific goals kept us on target.”

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 251

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

With careful planning, agile processes, and responsiveness in your grantmaking process of giving can help you react in a more thoughtful way. Measure your outcomes and tell your story. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. One data point is interesting.

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Effective Tips Grant API 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. Reciprocity is the secret to building a strong network – and understanding who is paying attention can help you give back some love. I used for anytime I teach a workshop or give a presentation.

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Twitter Tools Learning Measure 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. A benchmarking process can help.

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Benchmark Social Media Measure Results 96

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even without this research, you’ve likely intuited that an effective mission statement draws supporters and donors in and gets them excited about helping you achieve that mission. . An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. Study 1: How sad is your mission statement?

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Analysis Language Research Statistics 128

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. After all, these tools exist to help people do their jobs better, right? Trust them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Corporate leaders need to be transparent at every step of their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journey, and recent analysis provides a clear picture of DEI disclosure across corporate America today and direction for companies looking to not just talk the talk but walk the walk.

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Data America Policy Companies 88

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

JANUARY 25, 2013

” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Of course, it depends on your objectives and audience, but here is a framework to help you think about it. So we want to make sure that we getting conversions from our content — which, depending on the content type, is a variety of next actions.”

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101