ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

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. To do so, follow these core steps: Review your needs. Research top providers. Review their proposals. Discuss the project with your board.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gartner’s research focuses on how technology can help restore and strengthen an organization’s financial health. For nonprofit CFOs, this is a clarion call to review business processes and evaluate their existing tech stack.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2022

We’ll review the following topics: . Audits require deep financial analysis and when supporters understand that this took place, they’ll also recognize that your nonprofit takes accounting practices seriously. Reviewed large-scale expenses and ensured they’re recorded according to your capitalization policy. . Write an RFP.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Research shows that some of an organization’s most devoted donors–those who make recurring donations and consistently contribute for many years—often become planned giving donors. Once there is enough awareness of the program, launch a planned giving committee to review planned giving processes and fundraising policies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. One research study found that, given similar price and quality, 90% of shoppers worldwide are likely to switch to brands that support a good cause.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Major giving and prospect research support. Because of this, you must understand your goal for the partnership before researching consultants to ensure you find the right one for your team. There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. And, they can put reports in place that your team can use for analysis going forward to continue improving. Course authoring.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Review your members’ dues and charges, and alert them when they have overdue payments. DonorSearch — Top Fundraising App for Wealth Screening DonorSearch is a prospect research and fundraising tool that can help your organization learn more about your major donors. Backlink analysis. Keyword research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. This is the research and development of learning materials. Development.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance. The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Start researching nonprofit courses that will fulfill your training goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

If the SIB is structured with a lead organization dedicated to data collection and evaluation, a nonprofit manager needs to understand what will be expected of her team. Harvard Business Review. The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis.” Sources: Grossman, A. and Lombard, A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

For the metrics, I don’t just look at numbers, I also do an analysis of engagement around content – as well as keep a running list of what topics/formats worked pretty well. Since I use an idea dashboard to develop my content — it includes links, general structure for the blog post, format, etc.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Step 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for Your Non-Profit Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is crucial for non-profits to understand the landscape they operate in and make informed decisions. This step involves researching and analyzing three key areas: the target audience, community needs, and potential competitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Most often, organizations develop technology plans when they’re in the market for new solutions, with the plan providing a structured approach to the research and purchasing process. Research technology vendors. Review: The consultant reviews their recommendations with your team and discusses next steps.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. When embarking on a comprehensive analysis of your database, be sure to keep your goals and objectives first and foremost. Once the silent phase is completed, you will need to identify prospects for the public phase.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2015

The best time to create a set of rules is when your organization has the time to review processes and agree upon a set of guidelines to capture, code, and acknowledge all gifts. This is where your historical coding and a little extra analysis will help. Or a research organization may suddenly be part of a global social media movement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. This in turn lets it sift through social media posts, online reviews, and other unstructured data. Amazon Comprehend Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service from AWS that offers advanced text analysis and insights.

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Socialbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This means we need to do some research to see what are the trending and most searched topics or keywords — and how it may tie to your nonprofit’s mission. The tool does all the analysis and all that’s left is to draw conclusions and apply them to your content. suggest sentence structure corrections. suggest synonyms.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You’ll want a mobile app that delivers real-time access to the platform’s fundraising capabilities, so you can engage your members, track transactions, and perform donor research right from the palm of your hand. The mobile app should also accept onsite donations using contactless payment technology—like Tap to Pay—and credit card swipers.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instances where change management might be needed include adopting a new technology solution, product line, compensation structure, or standard operating procedure. Kotter developed his 8-Step Change Model based on extensive research and real-world observations. Keep the guiding coalition and volunteer army engaged and motivated.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

More than 750 researchers, teachers and leaders from the field gather at the Annual Conference. Research / @ARNOVA. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Research / #DoGoodData2017 / @DA4SG. General / #ISCon2016 / @IndSector. 11/16/2016. Nov 16 - 19.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So if you have to leave early or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. It’s prospect research. And the SOAR analysis, I think, is a great brainstorming tool because this can really incorporate feedback from all different folks. I love this logic model.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that instead of adopting a for-profit system and “making do” with the non-specific features, CharityEngine is designed with your organization’s unique structure in mind. Contact Salsa’s support team to learn more about their pricing structure. You receive a list of prospect insights for analysis. SalsaLabs Pricing.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And if you stay for the whole thing, you still get those things and you can review them, you can pass them on to a friend or a colleague. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. So go and do some of that research and then come back again, reconvene, and make some decisions.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

system that is used to teach tailored, structured courses long-distance to health care professionals. A peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal based in Canada. A peer-reviewed, international, open-access journal publishing important original research and analysis relevant to human health. Open Medicine ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s why: (1) The folder structure of your favorites list is not always flexible enough to allow for easy cross referencing. (2) Getting Started Guide as a first step and review other help documents as needed. Review your collection by navigating by tag. Browse by tag and other users when beginning to research a topic.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Research – Learn what customers want and how they behave/interact with your brand. To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. Introduction. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Data Analysis and Research :: building a culture of data-driven campaigning, designing tests with campaigns and offices, and setting up controlled experiments to optimize and improve performance. What do you think?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Even someone working for a company that manufactures nuts and bolts for distant military contractors is able, with some research, to figure out the nature of their work. In so doing, workers unwittingly helped Pentagon officials to engage in ‘near-real time analysis’ – to ‘click on a building and see everything associated with it’.

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