Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

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. We are honored to receive recognition in the 40th Healthcare Ad Awards and proud of the impactful work done by our teams and client partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. In the analysis, one thing I learned was the importance of instant thank yous - not only via Twitter, but other way channels. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

in 2020 , according to nonprofit organizations surveyed by the Association for Fundraising Professionals. A donor acquisition strategy is essential to every nonprofit’s sustainability because adding new donors to the file will offset donor attrition and provide a new pipeline for future major donors. year over year. in 2016 to 19.3%

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. One of the universal—and heartwarming—truths is that people will help each other in times of need. EOY was up, up, up! .

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Remember your goal is persuading consumers. Helping real people should be the star.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What steps should an organization take to audit their nonprofit website performance?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Watch the donorCentrics® 2018 Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving featuring Shaun Keister, PhD, vice chancellor of the University of California-Davis, for the online presentation of the Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance. . As schools dig deeper into the data, they may also take this down another layer.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. So, how can diversity help nonprofit boards better accomplish their mission? Let that sink in a moment. percent of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. So is One Campaign and Stanford University. analysis of using Facebook groups).

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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. What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Cora graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in organizational leadership & international business. Hosting fundraising events, whether online or in person, can yield great rewards for nonprofit organizations. What we are talking about is how well a nonprofit can support its mission with fundraising dollars.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

To truly move to a level of having the mechanics of the program in place and beyond, you should be reporting on sophisticated information and statistics to provide readily-available metrics at these prospect review meetings, whether they be group meetings or one-on-one reviews between managers and gift officers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits. According to the survey, nonprofits are more likely to grow expertise from within than use outside help. . On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 16, 2016

Giving USA is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Giving USA also reports that 70% of all charitable giving in the United States goes to religious organizations, education institutions, human services nonprofits, and gifts to foundations. Since 1974, this metric has ranged from 1.7%

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR NONPROFITS. 5 Nonprofits Winning At Social Media. Case studies of nonprofits winning at social media is an opportunity to see the strategies in action. Here we take a look at how some of the top nonprofits are leveraging social platforms to get results (and how you can do the same). Neverthirst.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2015

There is no exact science to date parameters, but you can review metrics such as counting in-bound calls, new donor increases, or even whitemail volume to help pull out the episodic spikes from within your historical day-to-day fundraising efforts. This is where your historical coding and a little extra analysis will help.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofit CRMs have come a long way in the past 20 years. Now, CRMs for nonprofits are the technological hubs that connect disparate functions and strategies into a single, unified platform. Finding the right nonprofit CRM solution can take your organization to the next level—and then some. How Do CRMs Work for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. For us, it was no different! We are proud to see how this work continues to make an impact on communities, the nation, and the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. I was curious about what I could learn if I did an informal benchmark study of a few nonprofit Pinterest users.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AARP Livability Index: 5 Awards AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. This work not only helped March of Dimes achieve these goals but also won them a total of seven awards this year, making them our most-awarded client of the year!

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

We learned a lot at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference — so much that one post couldn't contain it all! Alberto Cairo is the Knight chair in visual journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami. R for analysis and visualizations (free). iNZight for analysis (free).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. Another part was that many nonprofits didnt have systems in place to track and allocate expenses accurately.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nonprofit organizations and public sector agencies—” especially those involved in child welfare, mental health, and other direct services ”—are often unable to increase workers’ pay like the for-profit sector, and their employees are burned out. And participants are not alone in facing challenges in this process.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

Because 47% of all traffic to the top nonprofit websites come from organic search. Here’s how I did just that to rank for the term nonprofit marketing blog in 3 months: One of the first things I looked at was the keyword difficulty score. Two months if it’s a government, university or media site with a lot of authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

See Juilos Vasconcellos analysis ). This type of campaign is a win-win for sponsors and for nonprofits that need to boost awareness of their issue and have just started dipping toes into the social media waters. The campaign also helps us save a universal problem - what should we get our mother's for that special day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. Too many people are still wanting to "manage" the visitors experience, and I think these two metrics speak to the ways that the Web is. He notes: "It doesn't take you long to figure out.

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