Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Want to see more?

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. There’s no question about it: Data collection can feel overwhelming and scary, and it can often feel like a challenge you’ll never be able to overcome.

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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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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

as measured by total giving. This typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets. Analysis tip: Researchers will want to exclude federal grants if they are conducting analyses about foundation funding.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I decided to conduct two studies with my colleagues to get to answer this question. The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. Unexpectedly, we found that the results depended on an organization’s size. For our first project,?

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. Question : How does spending 12 weeks using the book compare to the length of time to earn an MBA degree?

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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. Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This is your chance to contribute, and to gain a better understanding of your own results and context. 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. Sign up now !

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And please reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com with any questions. This is your chance to contribute, and to gain a better understanding of your own results and context. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making. Hoping to hop on the 2022 Benchmarks train? Read time: 2 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

To reiterate, here are answers to a few common questions before we outline the options available: Can I access my old UA data after July 1, 2024? As a result, you cannot migrate UA data to GA4. By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. 2021-01-31), relative dates (e.g.,

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Measure your outcomes and tell your story. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Augment your reporting with data analysis.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Data analysis AI is a great tool for enhancing your data analysis across your organization. This analysis can be used to discover valuable insights and make informed decisions about your fundraising strategy. To better plan your fundraising campaigns, AI can help you determine the best times to target appeal to donors.

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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. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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M+R

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We take measures to minimize risk and make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and that nobody can guess who any particular result belongs to. And of course, let us know if you have any questions at all. Only you will know how your organization stacks up in the end (and you will know sooooo much about it).

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analysis, chatbots , and automation have the power to increase fundraising capacity. Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support.

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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.

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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. Remember: Averages are a useful starting point, but there are all sorts of reasons why your results may deviate from the norm. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: .

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s the second chatbot to ever pass the Turing Test , the current standard for measuring sophisticated AI models. Since chatbots typically rely on templated responses, they are better suited for simpler cases, such as answering common questions or being a self-service tool for donors (which also make them faster to set up).

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Researchers have measured the time savings created by generative AI. A recent Harvard Business School study compared two groups of consultants—one using AI tools and the other not—performing the same workplace tasks such as writing, analysis, and strategy.

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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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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

To explore how these salaries compare with other staff, we first limited the analysis to 646 organizations that reported a salary for their CEO and at least two other full-time staff among the 35 listed roles. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. Put your top content through each of the following questions and see where trends emerge. Or did they raise questions for response? The flash-study found that branded pages lost about 6.5%

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The latest edition, npEXPERTS—Game-Changers: How to Galvanize Supporters as Charitable Events Evolve , answers your most burning questions on the evolving landscape of fundraising events. Our goal is an expanded horizon of generosity based on a rethinking of how we measure giving. Bringing in New Givers.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

As a result, you’ve probably found yourself needing to write informative and engaging emails to connect with your community with limited time and manpower. ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. What is ChatGPT?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can your nonprofit even measure its return on investments (ROI)? I know, so many questions you must ask yourself as a nonprofit executive about tech–and you might not have a background in it! And employees become more motivated when they can visually see the results of their efforts or measure their performance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge. Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. Continuous Evidence Building: You should be Doing it Too!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Maybe the program participants skipped a survey question because they didn’t understand the wording, or maybe the program staff forgot to enter the information into your nonprofit’s database.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively. Sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis refers to the capability of AI to analyze and determine the emotion of written text or spoken word. AI fundraising.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. 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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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 22, 2022

PollEverywhere and Typeform ) to measure consumers’ opinions, usually through one question. Additionally, polling is a quick way for the team to assess the results, vs using a survey, where the data takes a lot more analysis. Top Ways to Use Polls + Surveys. Surveying is similar to polling, but allows for more detail.

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Care2

APRIL 27, 2011

Before we get to those questions, let’s define “social media success.&# Now, with that out of the way, let’s examine some questions about social media reports, analytics and tracking. Through effective analysis, you can determine whether your messages are resonating. But why are they important?

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

That’s a great question. Audience Analysis. Assign them key tasks and document results. Use qualitative measures (surveys, interviews and onsite usability testing) to understand how the new website resonates with key audience groups. Share your ideas, tips, recommended reading, questions or feedback here.

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