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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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A 2019 survey by the American Hospital Association found that 90% of healthcare boards conduct board self-assessments, but only 60% do so annually. leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. An annual survey is a good start.

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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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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement. Here’s how we think about impact management at Salesforce: Impact management combines elements of: Impact measurement.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. Sharon notes that 50-year longitudinal studies from Gallop Poll, NORC’s General Social Survey, Harris Poll, and Edelman Barometer, find that trust in public institutions and their leaders has declined steadily.

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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

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

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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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Council on Foundations ’ annual survey and report on staff salaries and benefits at U.S. Unlike sources such as the IRS form 990-PF , the survey goes beyond the top-paid employees by collecting salaries for any full-time staff, which match the descriptions in a predefined list of common 35 roles among grantmaking foundations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

Consider using surveys, direct interviews, or informal conversations to initiate this process. ” Analysis : This testimonial emphasizes the donor’s personal connection and satisfaction with the results of their contributions, highlighting the organization’s effectiveness and transparency.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

You’re probably already asking for this data on your application forms, in surveys and during event registration. If adding length to your survey or form is a concern you may also want to consider which questions you may be able to retire in 2024. This is considered an explicit data collection method.

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M+R

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We rely on data and survey responses from a wide range of nonprofits, and we hope you’re game to join us for this coming year. 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. This sounds like a lot of work (and it is!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2013

In this article we are going to discuss a challenge that every researcher is confronted with when creating a survey : How to design the right question list for their questionnaire? ” Essentially, a survey is only as good as the questions created will allow it to be. Defining the Problem. Customer Service. Restaurant Environment.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

For us, this has been linked not just to content like articles a blog posts but also forum threads, email outreach, and broad campaigns — like our recent Cloud Survey. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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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. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

Measuring success : By using donor personas to segment their donor database and track their engagement and giving history, non-profit organizations can measure the success of their fundraising campaigns and make data-driven decisions. Creating donor personas is a process that involves research, data analysis, and collaboration.

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Donor Build Demographics New York City 52

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Market analysis, also known as market research, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information about target markets and customers. Step 3: Design your market research survey. Designing Your Survey Method. Let’s get started.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. Too often, our participant surveys only focus on the first level.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. newsletters, surveys, event attendance). What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Remember your goal is persuading consumers.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. To date the survey has received 131 responses; 45% projects and 55% organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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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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Integration Impact Practice Management 69

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

Grantmakers need to recognize the importance of funding both the projects and the technology required to support, measure, and grow those projects. Software to help measure impact: In order to provide the reporting and trends data to stakeholders, today’s nonprofit needs more than just Excel to manage data and identify insights.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. Aside from membership, do you know the most valuable products your association offers? What is the trend in sales over time?

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Product Associations Measure Analysis 282

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Taking proactive measures. Leaders should also work to avoid SRT Leadership Traps – traps such as, getting in your own way, succumbing to paralysis by analysis, allowing your Board to be your customer and rushing the Reset. Moving quickly in response to disruptions. Reset : Resetting your strategy when the situation changes.

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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. Can you share that survey? Here’s a link to a post about the survey. QUESTION: Last question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Carie Lewis mentioned the Humane Society’s KPIs – which is why they do and how they measure this sustained engagement. I asked her how do you measure relationships? She advises using various parts of the Grunig instrument which you can be done for free using Survey Monkey or Zoomerang or a poll on a blog.

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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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