Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Analyzing your nonprofit’s data and industry trends can uncover insights about: Existing donors. Conduct research about your organization’s specific market, working to identify marketwide consumer and technology trends. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Track trends. The market landscape.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Often, organizational structures within individual facilities and departments create their own data platforms and workflows that are not aligned with one another. There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 77

Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Descriptive data improves the quality of the research and enables analysis that identifies gaps in funding and critical needs.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Because no one wants board members approving budgets that they don’t fully understand or making decisions to expand staff when they aren’t clear if the budget can withstand additional salaries and benefits or voting on fundraising approaches when they don’t understand cost/benefit analysis. Here’s how you can build that board.

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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. This also makes it easier for more team members to actively use your data, improving efficiency and productivity.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. However, there is still a lot of confusion about what knowledge work is, what it is for, and how to do it.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

Software to help measure impact: In order to provide the reporting and trends data to stakeholders, today’s nonprofit needs more than just Excel to manage data and identify insights. How Infrastructure Enables More Equitable Grantmaking. The infrastructure Rachel and Chantal discussed is not optional for today’s nonprofit.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. In this session, we’ll discuss what inclusive research looks like and give you concrete tips for how you can ethically structure your research to ensure you’re designing impactful solutions for your audiences.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 31, 2020

While repurposing the content, make sure you’re changing your strategy along with recent trends and developments. The major thing to remember is that you don’t need to make outright demands or requests, but subtly touch upon topics of interest after careful research and analysis. Make your content versatile and flexible.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Setting a timeline and deadlines helps you develop a well-structured fundraising campaign. Reminders for a successful fundraising campaign: Start planning your fundraising marketing campaign ahead of time. Identify all the steps to follow during the whole campaign process. Be present in more than one communication channel. Don’t be shy.

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Campaign Fundraising Channel Mail 90

Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

From improvements in user experience, to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. There are many things that we need to account for when planning a redesign.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Step 3: Analyze Your Nonprofit’s Work The most important questions you should answer in your mission statement are who you serve, how your programs are structured, and your impact on your cause. This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors. Who Do You Serve?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

So many of us made ambitious plans for growth last year, only to be forced to throw those out the window for a global health crisis we never factored in as a threat on our SWOT analysis. The “how” – program models, operational processes, staffing structures – can shift. Look to skilled volunteerism as a powerful resource.

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Environment Hunger Model Phase 49

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The starvation cycle is a phenomenon that has been described as a debilitating trend of under investment in organizational infrastructure, fed by potentially misleading financial reporting and donor expectations of increasingly low overhead expenses” (Lecy & Searing 2015). and McSwain, D. 2016), Playing the Numbers Game.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

Evaluate Your Need and Requirement: It is important to evaluate points such as total number of users expected, operations structure, learning and training objectives, current IT infrastructure and its limitations, system management, etc. Get as clear and specific as you can. Can your end-users contact them directly?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

From improvements in user experience to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. There are many things to consider when planning a website redesign. Creating a personalization plan.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Look for ways to structure real discussions among board members that will elicit commitment and leadership. 4) Look at trends within routine reports. For example, along with the financial report, consider a discussion of long-run implications of certain revenue or cost trends. 1) Focus the agenda on results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Monitors feedback from target audience in real time but balances with trend or survey data. Documents quantitative results against goals and value when asked by senior leadership. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. 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.

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The report was primarily informed by two sources: Financial data showing trends from the field. In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010. Lessons learned from our work with agencies in the field.

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Research Data California Government 89

Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

Traditionally, we’ve done data audits or analysis that are handed over to our staff. The analysis lays out giving potential that is dated from the moment it’s received. Many trends are driving big data in healthcare – evolving payment models, emerging healthcare technologies, and care delivery improvements – to name a few.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

These high-level discussions focused on key thought leadership topics and trends shaping the industry. Literally, put results first, whether in grant discussions and decisions, program design and analysis, or anything else. Analytics are built to show trends, patterns, successes, and shortfalls as they unfold.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Facial recognition, self-driving cars, and medical image analysis use this technology. That makes understanding current and emerging trends critical. ML algorithms identify patterns and make predictions based on historical data.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The one negative thing I have to say is that the session seemed to lack a coherent structure and while much was discussed it's hard to tie it together. While this session wasn't a primer, Beth's four 'I's, plus the discussion on objectives and SMART analysis, are a fantastic starting point. The Philosophy and Definition of ROI.

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ROI Social Media Metrics Strategy 57

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

The environmental scan phase looks at the external market: who the association’s competition is, what the target market wants, if there is a market for the content being provided, what type of pricing structure to enact, and more. And, they can put reports in place that your team can use for analysis going forward to continue improving.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Using AI, you can identify top-performing content and trends to apply to generating new Meta ads. Note that due to the export restrictions, you will only be able to analyze a small set of ads and the spend amount will be hidden, so this method works best for ad copy analysis of top performing ads or analysis of competitor ad copy.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

By identifying the trends and behavior of your organization’s site visitors, you can better understand where the issues on your site lie. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis. Keyword research.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Highlights from recent media coverage of privacy-related incidents and trends shows increased risk for the nonprofit sector related to privacy. Determine the compliance gap; perform a gap analysis to determine where you are not compliant and what it would take to become compliant. Donny Shimamoto, IntrapriseTechKnowlogies.

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Hawaii Los Angeles Law Nonprofit 64

Socialbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Google Trends: getting a handle on topical conversations. Google Trends. Google Trends is a tool that helps us find the inspiration we need for writing appealing and interesting content. Google Trends is a tool that can help us do just that. suggest sentence structure corrections. Post by Daniela McVicker.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Join more than 40 nonprofit organizations and over 70 MLG professionals in sessions featuring overall trends, insights, and analysis. From the end-of-day block party to hands-on workshops and community discussions, there are countless opportunities for you to connect with new ideas, learn the latest trends, and build your peer network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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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. So, if your nonprofit web site has complex tracking and analysis needs, you may need to work with a specialist consultant to set up your account and train staff to use it.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Build a data mapping plan: Understand your current data structure comprehensively, identifying the fields and attributes you use at your organization.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. Google Cloud Natural Language Google Cloud Natural Language is a text analysis tool that allows users to extract insights from unstructured data, such as social media feeds and emails. But hey, it’s not all doom and gloom!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Salesforce List Views are an incredible asset to associations, but it’s important to emphasize that they cannot perform data analysis or generate summary reports. Reports Salesforce Reports offer more advanced functionality and analysis tools than list views.

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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. Your vision might be to “leverage technology to enhance data collection and analysis and guide better decision-making in fundraising strategy.”

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