Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Metrics Tracking. >> You’ll notice there are tabs for various platforms so that you can concentrate each view to one platform and measure points over time. There is no point tracking what you’re doing if you aren’t reporting it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4? GA4 is a replacement for UA rather than an update to it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Nonprofits use CRMs to manage their donor relationships, to segment supporters by interest areas, streamline donor communication, automate fundraising, and report on outcomes to the board, donors, and community. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This year, the need to check in is even more critical, as 2023 will usher in a whole new paradigm for a core part of digital strategy: web metrics. UA has been a reliable benchmarking tool for more than a decade, and many organizations have comfortably adopted strategies and reports that deliver data to inform their broader digital strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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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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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Reporting : The best dashboards come with built-in reporting features that make it easy to see how your nonprofit is performing over time. Website : [link]. What is it? Mixpanel – Wikipedia.

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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. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And last year the AFL-CIO reported CEO-to-median-worker pay ratios ranged from 6:1 to over 6,000:1 for the largest, publicly traded companies (i.e., The Council on Foundations ’ annual survey and report on staff salaries and benefits at U.S. The median for all reported CEO salaries in 2022 was $200,000. How do U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. Regular Content Editorial Meetings: At the Case Foundation, Jenna Sauber reported that they have editorial meetings every two weeks to plot out content in detail. They talk through all the various components.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. When it comes to Numbers, the traditional MBA goes much further than all but accountants, M&A specialists, and Wall Street wizards need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Know What Success Is. 2. Don’t Be A Zoombie Repeating the Mistakes of the Past.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Customizable Reports: While GA4 doesn’t have as many pre-built reports as GA3 did, it does let you build reports and customize them to your specific needs. We can identify the key metrics that you should be monitoring.

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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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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Sales ops originally functioned as a small team of number crunchers who executed financial analyses, reporting, and sales forecasting. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Generate, analyze and present reports. Sales Operations vs Sales Enablement.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. 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. Reporting on goals and maintaining accountability.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

This year, Forum One took home three gold, two silver, two bronze, and one merit award in the website, apps, and interactive, and annual report categories. To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. However, we shouldn’t rely on for-profit output measures to paint a complete picture of nonprofit success. How did we get here? Tweet this. How is ROI calculated?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. The deepest layer is the Dashboard itself—embraced by researchers and policymakers who use the platform to its full capacity, running analysis and downloading multiple data sets. Understand your capacity.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Improve Fundraising Performance with Insightful Reporting, Measurement and Analysis. Are you ready to put analysis into action? In this session we’ll share best practices for performing detailed analyses of event data to discover hidden gems within your event. Download session slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research. What have you discovered?

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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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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