Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Does integrate with existing applications your staff uses everyday like Microsoft Office365 ?

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Metrics Nonprofit Profile Platform 261

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Guzmán’s article, entitled Speaking Stats to Justice: Expert Testimony in a Guatemalan Human Rights Trial Based on Statistical Sampling , appears in the most recent issue of CHANCE, a quarterly journal published by the American Statistical Association. His family never stopped looking for him.

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Guatemala Statistics Analysis Sample 129

Qgiv

JUNE 16, 2021

Looking for more in-depth analysis of the Giving USA data and how COVID-19 has changed giving? 2020 Giving Stats. Register for our free webinar on Tuesday, July 13 from 1pm – 2pm ET ! Giving USA Foundation, established in 1985 by The Giving Institute, endeavors to advance philanthropy through research and education.

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Report Trend Giving Indiana 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

Ethan Zuckerman has been analyzing Global s stats since the site's redesign last month. The tool used to count total links is Blogpulse (He also shares his worksheet ) In the analysis, he mentions that the average blogger links to Global s 1.86 In another post, Ethan writes about the Blogpulse tools he used to do the analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. The framework is called: “facts-stats-trends” : Facts : Counts, or sums, of numbers. Stats : Basic descriptive statistics (average, median, mode, distribution). Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g.,

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Resource Practice Data Work 105

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo. DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience.

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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

This made me curious - so I ran some stats on cats and dogs on both Flickr and Facebook. My dog, Sadie, who has a Facebook profile (and has been dead for three years -may she rest in peace) has already made friends on Facebook with my friends' dogs. I also learned that there is "Catbook."

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Facebook Analysis Comparison Flickr 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The stats below represent 5,721 organizations from 160 countries. In addition to social media stats, the report also provides data for how organizations use web and email communications, online fundraising tools, productivity software, and emerging technology trends. Are you an expert on how NGOs in Africa use technology?

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NGO Stats Social Media Global 279

Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

RAND Corporation, known for high-quality, objective research and analysis on issues at the top of the national and international policy agendas, shares its. Standards for High-Quality Research and Analysis. , Hallmarks of Outstanding Research and Analysis. Corporation for National and Community Service. Independent Sector.

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Research Analysis Stats Sound 40

Care2

AUGUST 24, 2012

To provide a fair analysis, The Chronicle’s rankings show the percentage of their income that households donated from the money they had left after paying their taxes and covering housing, food, and other essential expenses,” said the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Overall Donation Stats. Over $135.8B

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United States Stats Philanthropy Charity 68

The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 4, 2020

Are your email stats actually plunging? Your task in this situation is to try to identify why things aren’t working and that requires you to do some kind of critical analysis by asking questions. Now, I know this analysis does not account for something like an economic downtown and donors deciding to give less. Yes, the facts!

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Profit Analysis Stats Question 49

Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis. For example, they know they are taking a survey or they know you are checking the engagement stats on your Facebook page. Instead, we learned how to better control for the effect in our analysis.

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Content Social Media Analysis Issue 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

And, just like other technology tools, like online credit card transactions, nonprofits end up paying a transaction fee of 5-10% back to the vendor. So, deciding to incorporate a SMS campaign should include a traditional nonprofit technology ROI analysis that analyzes the benefits, value, and financial analysis.

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Open Gartner Fundraising Hype 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others. I have not done this yet. Right now it is limited to three different ways to analyze your Fan Page.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Photo by NimagesDR. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?,

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Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Analysis of each individual post while giving it an engagement number based on social shares and page views. You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience.

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Social Media Measure Tools Media 65

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We went into full analysis mode – we looked at everything. We analyze numbers, look at team performance, look at participant performance – let’s add a new group in the analysis mix: ourselves. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising Friends Asking Amy Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Traditional Events' See you at Boot Camp!

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Time Stats Reflection Analysis 36

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

There are stats built into the tool for the number of clicks and so on, but if you are measuring site traffic already it shouldn’t be new that regard. Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2014

The stats and analysis give us some interesting insights into different types of fundraising events. Benchmarks & Stats Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Traditional Events' We got a sneak peak at the 2013 Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study this week. Register today!

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Raise Money Stats Benchmark 37

Care2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Download the e-benchmarks study for all the analysis. Some stats about text message users: over 80% come from email lists. Growth rate is at about 49.5%, though churn is at 31%. The response rate for text messaging where people are asked to make a call to a decision maker on the organization's behalf is 4.9%.

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Tools Stats Netsquared Info 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Percent of participants who are on teams and similar stats, team size, team retention rate, etc. Benchmarks & Stats Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising'

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Hashtag Stats. What the Hashtag is a simple tool for aggregating tweets into a transcript and some simple stats, but after experiencing Marc Meyerand Jason Breed ’s Hashtag Social Media Chat and their tool that aggregates tweets, I need to do some re-thinking. How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. The primary research includes surveys, interviews, and observation.

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

Here's a summary of the impressive participation stats for each phase. Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project when it launched here. (If you click through the exhibition, you'll notice that images are different sizes - the larger the image the higher the rating it got). One of my favorite photos is Etienne Frossard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We also just started reporting on the metrics we already had available (web analytics, FB insights, email campaign stats) and are now moving towards more of a “digital content services&# model with metrics related to specific campaigns, etc.&#. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

My colleague Amy Gahran, a mobile expert, has an analysis here. Here’s what I learned: Don’t Panic, Check Your Google Stats : Ari Sahagun, web designer, suggested know your audience first. My blog passed the test! I queried a few colleagues for advice.

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Mobile Test Advice Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. It can also influence traffic.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I had heard of these guys before, but finally signed up for a sample analysis of the NTEN community. They also have some really interesting stats about social network usage. My favorite: it's not being first, but executing the idea best that matters. You guys have a LOT of profiles on social networks. And a lot of friends. KnightPulse.

Portland 36

Portland Widget Stats Sample 36

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle. Less than half of major gift officers are highly productive (defined as raising more than $550 thousand per year).

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. Several reported difficulty in getting Google to show up-to-date stats, while others noted a very occasional loss in historic stats for an entire site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. Niche Online Social Networks - stats on black planet and migente - online communities for blacks and latinos. Twitter Poll - ???Which Which issue is bigger to you?

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Web Social Blogger Stats 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. Almost six months ago, I did an analysis of my blog using some metrics suggested by Avinash Kaushik.

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Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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Open Source Nptech Summary Tag 50

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Users are more likely to download a full report after seeing a compelling stat or chart, than to wade through a long report in hopes of finding a useful statistical nugget. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. Make it easy to find.

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Policy Data Content Share 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Google Analytics is also free.

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Analytics Google Site Folksonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! You get more statistics for analysis! 8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them. See #1 above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

The job also involves a good amount of social media strategy, content production, customer service and statistical analysis. It's my job as a social marketer to use the stats to figure out what is working and what is not. It's fascinating and exciting and I love it all. How do keep sane? How do stay efficient? What's your secret?

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Social Media Media Work Social 51