Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track. Amplitude is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to track, measure, and analyze their data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Can the development office customize workflows and notifications when a donor is lapsing to help you determine the root cause and how to turn the trend around? 3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel.

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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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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Measure Impact: Link fundraising successes to specific projects or programs, showcasing the tangible outcomes made possible through donor support.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How closely should they track those changes? 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. But first… What is impact management ? Continuous improvement.

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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. Tear down walls (literally and figuratively)​ Embrace a continuous process​ The Erosion of Confidence Sharon Rice,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our resident trend watcher.

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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. 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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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Analyzing your nonprofit’s data and industry trends can uncover insights about: Existing donors. Conduct research about your organization’s specific market, working to identify marketwide consumer and technology trends. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Track trends. The market landscape.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

These proactive measures will not only keep your SOA in line with the latest accounting standards but also ensure your organization’s financial health is accurately represented, fostering trust among stakeholders and supporting the sustainability of your mission. Engage with accounting professionals who specialize in nonprofit finance.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 29, 2023

Long hours spent manually entering data, reconciling amounts, tracking campaigns, and acknowledging donations can be laborious and fraught with the possibility of errors. From tracking donations to analyzing donor behavior, all information is consolidated in a centralized database. This is where fundraising software truly shines.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. Understand individual patient health within the context of population health trends. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results.

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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. The work is tracked in a shared spreadsheet and accompanying meeting notes. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? These all go on a google calendar – the theme and title.

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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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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Before we dive into specifics, it’s important to recognize that no one product will measure everything you need and they are not 100% accurate. Allows you to see engagement trends over time.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using data from The Blackbaud Index , we are able to provide the first insights into fundraising trends for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013. Tracking more than $13 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. Overall Giving Trends.

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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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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

Tracking your website’s activity with Google has just gotten easier. You may have not heard, but Google has officially rolled out Google Analytics 4, a new kind of tracking property. Developers are already preparing to use machine learning modeling to support various modes of analysis. The Benefits for Your Nonprofit.

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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. What is the trend in sales over time? Track sales trends over time to see if a product becomes more or less popular.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

You want to track a variety of interactions between your organization and its supporters, going beyond the basics. 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.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. The ultimate goal is to uncover trends, understand performance, and discover useful next actions to help nonprofits achieve their fundraising and donor stewardship goals.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures of Financial Health. In this first installment, Nonprofit Finance Fund shares their “Top 3 Measures of Financial Health.”. A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Example: ABC Theatre. months of liquidity.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Overlooking important trends. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals. Overlooking important trends. A KPI measures how effective your marketing efforts have been. Neglecting site design.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

Track specific pieces of supporter data so you can personalize your outreach to them (more on this later!). Track how you’re interacting with supporters to ensure you maintain an active relationship with them. Use predictive analysis. This is done by finding patterns and trends in your fundraising data.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Your first step in a midyear fundraising evaluation is looking to see how much money you have raised year-to-date and whether or not you’re on track to hit your revenue goals for the year. Are you on track? If you’re on track or ahead, congratulations! Start with the Big Picture: How Much Money Have You Raised? . What didn’t?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Measure actionable items.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Metrics Tracking. >> Presentation. YOU can do it!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This eye tracking study points out what visual elements will be the best important and why. But the big news according to TechCrunch is that Insights is planning to offer “real time data” analysis. But remember, to get the best results you need both real-time and trend data. Here they are: 1.

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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. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

From improvements in user experience to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. Plan for a way to manage change in order to effectively measure progress and stay on track. Do they have a unified visual voice and brand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. The Facebook Insights tool lets you see trends Fan acquisition and subscription. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. The holy grail metrics is missing? Does it exist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. You should be looking at monthly trends over time. If not, why? If yes, why?

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