sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. By lever aging d ata as a key piece of your prospecting process, your organization can find the most promising prospective major donors.

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Analysis Gift Data Tips 73

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. Human resource performance metrics: Methods & Processes that demonstrate that you care. Anatomy of the nonprofit starvation cycle: An analysis of falling overhead ratios in the nonprofit sector.

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Resource Ratio San Francisco Retention 40

BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources. What about the funders role in this process? Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization).

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New York Collaboration Nonprofit Analysis 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Did you maintain a 3:1 ratio , providing donors with three warm touches between Asks? Is your donor acknowledgment process refined, so donors receive a thank-you within 48 hours? Without a thorough analysis, you’re just making educated guesses about what’s working and what’s not. What did you do to engage current donors?

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Evaluation Fundraising Raise Grant 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls "nodes" is core of social network analysis. There was considerable discussion about the following to friends ratio (the number of people whose tweets you read compared to the number of people who read your tweets) and whether you should follow everyone who follows you.

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Ratio Twitter People Social Network 57

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. How did we get here?

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Measure ROI Organization Ratio 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The data is in a computer language called.JSON that is commonly used for data sharing and processing. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks. These experiments prompt questions, identify gaps in the data, and promote new forms of collection, dissemination, and analysis.

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Open Data Artist Museum 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process. This is such a good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Most importantly, you need a thinking process - either alone or as a team - to harvest insights. If you want to assess reader interest in one blog post versus another, I'd suggest the following process. Reader Growth : This is content consumption.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. This tool will provide you vital information to assist in your budgeting process. Information is data that requires analysis. Remember: information is NOT insight. Review your budget v. Your team is your mission.

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Create Ratio Analysis Review 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech.

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Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. 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. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. The most valuable part of the blog benchmarking process is the reflection process and linking insights to making improvements.

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Metrics ROI Measure Content 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. It can also influence traffic.

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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

But define some terms first: Measurement is the process of determining the result of a strategy (source: J. Mapping is the process of developing a map of all things you are doing to generate conversation, sharing, and collaboration as a social media maker. What is your post to comment ratio? Think Nielsen Ratings ).

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. blogging process (answering email, writing, researching, maintenance.). I did not include spam comments or my own).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. If you want to publish on your blog or web site, it is a two step process. tag as private???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I agree, but is a ratio the best number? I was surprised to read that he invests 25 hours a week on his direct blogging process (answering email, writing, researching, maintenance.) I haven't tracked my time on "direct blogging process" and it is also hard to separate from other work because the two are so intertwined.

Measure 50

Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. The analysis of our fundraising programs’ performance helped set the foundation for embracing big data and creating the cultural shift needed at Project HOPE. The analysis moved beyond short-term metrics such as annual net revenue and took a macro view of our program.

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