Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. .

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. If so, it’s best to figure that out now and correct it before getting too far into the weeds of building any sophisticated data warehousing or reporting systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

The State of Marketing 2011 report recently released from IBM analyzes over 300 online and direct marketers across a wide range of industries, geographies, and company sizes. A key finding: Nearly 60 percent of respondents listed “ measurement, analysis, and learning &# as their top information technology bottleneck.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Customized donor reports. Generate customized reports based on your nonprofit’s current donor engagement priorities. Save your most-used reports as templates to reuse in future data analysis. Website analytics tools enable you to track metrics such as time on page, bounce rates, and conversion rates for different pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Do you need annual reports, or will monthly reports suffice? Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

The well-intended “programs” that don’t work are nothing more than a relabeled annual job satisfaction survey that combines “agree and strongly agree” responses into a “% favorable metric” that looks good on the surface but hides problems. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Harter, Ph.D.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Nonprofits usually report retention as a percentage. Use Google Analytics to track metrics like unique visitors, pageviews, backlinks, and more to identify how to create compelling online content.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

As they do so, more hospitals are deploying grantmaking programs that support nonprofit partners, tangibly demonstrate commitment to the community, and tackle entrenched problems facing vulnerable populations. A small number of coherent initiatives with a clear theory of change and metrics. Intelligently align mission and strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The well-intended “programs” that don’t work are nothing more than a relabeled annual job satisfaction survey that combines “agree and strongly agree” responses into a “% favorable metric” that looks good on the surface but hides problems. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Harter, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. We analyze the content that users spend the most time, referral traffic, and other key metrics over time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

These platforms are both automated and centralized, offering solutions to the most common problems associated with outdated data management tools. Reporting - With centralized information, developing reports that show the broad range of activities that your members are engaged in is simplified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue. "    He talked about different categories of metrics for the web: 1)   Types of visitors:   You have to get inside your customer's heads and what is important to them. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This section of the report covers new ways of thinking about organizational culture based in continuous improvement based on feedback. The report describes the indicators below as hallmarks of a culture of continuous improvement. In addition to periodic check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes goal-oriented performance metrics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. What is Business Intelligence?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics. Board recruiting is hard,” said Tivoni Devor, author of “The face of nonprofit boards: a network problem,” published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 4, 2015.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS. The problem: Managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Look first at your organizational metrics. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change. How do we move away from slacktivism?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform. The problem: managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Once the hallmark of marketing professionals and financial analysts, data analysis has now infiltrated almost all aspects of our life from fitness trackers (got to make sure you get those steps in!) To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome? How might you measure it?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Identifying potential donors involves research and analysis that highlights individuals or entities that share the same values and interests as the organization. Communication can take various forms, including email newsletters, annual reports, and social media updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 16, 2023

fusionSpan will also manage your Nonprofit Cloud install, helping you tackle accounting for income, manage installments, report on your efforts, and acknowledge your donors with email and print communications. As donors form the fundamental pillar of nonprofit work, fostering these meaningful connections is essential.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Ad Library Report is a limited interface that lets you search for ads about social issues, elections or politics. The interface returns information on the Disclaimer, Amount spent, and Number of ads in library, You can download a full csv report by date range. We will then import the data into ChatGPT for analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It is a misconception that for-profits exist to make money only. In the early days of a successful lean startup, they look like untentional nonprofit organizations because they are focusing on impact metrics: How effective are they serving their stakeholders or customers? Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Specifically, define the metrics that are most interesting and useful for your organization. Then, doublecheck that you’ve got a solid infrastructure in place to collect that data and report it to your CRM for further analysis. Provide users with an intuitive, built-in way to complete these tasks: Report technical issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The problem is that data everywhere! Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Why is that so hard?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to the FEMA report, “COVID-19’s Impact on the Human & Social Services Sector,” 50 percent of nonprofit organizations experienced increased demand for programs and services while 83 percent suffered financially, 75 percent canceled a major fundraising event, and 64 percent were forced to cut back on programs in 2020.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Salsa CRM offers features such as rich and configurable donor profiles, custom reports, and insightful dashboards to keep an eye on your latest fundraising campaigns and track goals. Their software tools all work together to create a unified approach for data collection and reporting. Why we love this fundraising software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

Nearly 75% of respondents said that they collect data to report back to funders. The vast majority of organizations reported that program staff decide what to measure, what it means, and are in charge of the capture, management, and sharing of data. The number one reported data storage tool was Excel. And on and on.

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