sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors. Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. What is a Project Charter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When measuring your impact, you probably do so in relation to the specific needs of the community you serve, but you are also just one in a broader network of organizations working collectively to create a sustainable future for all. Each step you take to maximize your impact creates a ripple that carries through to create global change.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Candidates should be able to quickly articulate a nuanced commitment to both in the form of details about the organization, trends in fundraising, and awareness of traits required to be a strong major gifts officer. What metrics do you use to measure success in major gift fundraising?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

Impact measured through storytelling Finally, as we look at the year ahead, I would be remiss if I did not mention impact. The idea of measuring our work and impact is certainly not new. The adage of “what gets measured gets done” is often true but I would argue that what is equally true is what stories get shared inspire action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Thursday: Communicate powerfully as a leader – Creating change means developing a powerful narrative honoring the past (both the good stuff and the not-so-good), articulating a compelling change mandate, and describing a rigorous and optimistic way forward. Then, telling that story with emotion, again and again, makes it impactful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable). This data is how we measure our impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. For now, here are some highlights from the Spring 2017 State of Grantseeking™ Report that may help you establish measurable objectives for your own grantseeking program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. It serves as the reference point to settle disputes, avoid “ scope creep ,” and judge the usefulness of ideas.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it. You probably have a long list of great things you want to accomplish this year…including making analytics a priority.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The degree to which a nonprofit can articulate the strength of its reach, resources, reputation, and capabilities is an important key in securing productive collaborative relationships. Measure and share impact. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. But you’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to have goals against which you can measure your results.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

It starts with articulating a clear, authentic, and long-term purpose — something that is true today, and that guides the organization into the future. Purpose-Driven Companies use a Purpose Mindset to Advance Measurable Goals. Stand-out companies set measurable goals to put their business strategy and purpose statement into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. The big takeaway: Nonprofits overwhelmingly agree that video is crucial to their communications, but many feel they do not know how to use it effectively or measure its impact – yet. How are you measuring those results? Is your organization using video and getting results?

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Establish measurable targets to track donor base growth and engagement levels. Clearly articulate your mission, goals, and the profound impact donors can make. Avoid holidays or busy periods that may divert attention. Set Clear Goals Define your fundraising target, donor engagement goals, and impact-oriented objectives.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Measurable – How much? Do they articulate an understanding of and/or demonstrate affinity for your mission and vision? Only add criteria which are clearly measurable, with the measurement determined in advance (e.g., “no These will likely include: Goals – The S.M.A.R.T. Specific – What do we want to accomplish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

For nonprofits, those are not solely money or efficiency for everything that could be measured. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

While some of these options might be cheaper, make sure you’re articulating the long term benefits of the CRM to future projects, while other options will likely only serve as a quick fix. Soft benefits are one that less easily measured, and usually revolve around how a member, donor, or employee feels about their work. Don’t fret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Once you’ve got retention down, you can start thinking about growing your membership. Outside of membership drives, the key to membership growth is promotion and communication.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

It is possible to measure the brand using the Brand Equity that includes consistency, operation, trust, and partnerships. For this reason, it is necessary that the organization represent universal values and ethics codes, articulated to providing a high-quality service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? So, articulated success metrics for a networked strategy is also important. Do you have a measurement system to help you track impact along the way and improve what you’re doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

Without question, our ability to track and measure outcomes and the impact of social good initiatives has expanded considerably over the past several years. One of the biggest changes we’ve seen in the nonprofit sector is that we now have the technology to power this type of outcomes-centered measurement and program tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

In episode 7 of the Managing eLearning Podcast , Jon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras to discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model , which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. All foundations and their nonprofit partners can benefit from measuring, tracking and reporting on outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Embracing measurement & uncertainty. Look, if you’re reading Beth’s Blog you probably already think measuring progress is a good thing. It’s a reminder that if our real goal is to build something radically new – a new data system, a community center, a society – we may need to get out of our own way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

It is possible to measure the brand using the Brand Equity that includes consistency, operation, trust, and partnerships. For this reason, it is necessary that the organization represent universal values and ethics codes, articulated to providing a high-quality service.

Effective 40

Effective Help Americorp Nonprofit 40

Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2020

Doctors, nurses , and the teams working on the front lines have gone through extraordinary measures to save lives and protect their communities through challenging times. . It will be the job of the foundations to articulate that case and, of course, offer donors and the community ways to help. .

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Goals help you measure your success, track your progress, and get clarity on what you hope to achieve. Ensure that your membership drive materials clearly articulate all that’s included in each membership tier. Now, let’s cover what it takes to make your membership drive a success. What are your objectives for the membership drive?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Or more detrimental—not consistently being able to articulate what the bigger picture even is. . Our values — Inclusivity, Metrics Driven, Problem Solving, Accountability, Creativity, and Teamwork — is how we create IMPACT, and each employee is measured against these overall company values.

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2014

Is your organization able to clearly and succinctly articulate its future direction and does it have a well-developed rationale for this development? Too often, strategic plans are measured by asking “did we do what we said we would do?” Here are some questions you might ask. Where are we going and why? –

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI.

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