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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. That’s why you need an analytic, numbers-based perspective to strategy and planning. Start with benchmark data. This type of numbers-based analytic approach is useful not just internally but externally as well.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Measuring the Impact of Your Nonprofit Program

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Counting on Success? Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics

Connection Cafe

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. Fortunately for those new to peer-to-peer performance analytics, a readily available body of work has been developed on this topic. Over time, we’ve isolated certain benchmarks that provide clues to the health of an event.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 2a: Analytics Data as User Research

Connection Cafe

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Methodology.

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Four Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

sgEngage

Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. Successful organizations create a quantifiable performance evaluation using fundraising software to identify the top 3–4 metrics.

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