Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm?

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 242

Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A cause marketing campaign provides your nonprofit with a wider audience, an increase in revenue, and wider awareness for both your cause and your nonprofit. By building these connections, your for-profit partner reaches a new audience in your supporters, and your organization finds new supporters in their customers.

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Causes Marketing Impact Guide 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?”

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Raise Campaign Money Online 59

Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Build your audience persona. Set SMART goals.

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Social Media Strategy Media Donor 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?” We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Metrics Facebook Data Measure 96

Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Successful event marketing starts with knowing how to reach your target audience. What channel do they spend the most time on? What are they looking at on those channels? For most event coordinators, one of the best places to reach their target audience is Instagram. Media attention. Create a unique event hashtag.

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Contest Headline Social Media Survey 84

Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Understand your target audience As a small business, it’s important to focus your marketing efforts and dollars on the audiences that are most likely to invest in your products or services. Research these prospects to determine which marketing channels, messaging, and branding would be best suited to solicit their support.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Throughout the year, it’s important to conduct plenty of preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make sure your audience is eager to give when the big day arrives. Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI).

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Giving Retention Metrics Demographics 119

DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Targeting the wrong audience. Once you have a goal to guide your team, you’ll then need to find out who your target audience is and how best to reach them. Targeting the wrong audience. However, most nonprofits have a tendency to target more audiences than necessary. Channel preference (social media vs. email).

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Marketing Social Media Nonprofit Integration 52

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? It’s easy to lose sight of your core messaging and your audiences when you’re choosing platforms, comparing fees, and scheduling emails. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. Mix in more videos?

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

email marketing is one of the most effective channels for nonprofit organizations. For a nonprofit organization, the primary goal for sending an email is to grab donors’ attention, and if that’s true for you, too, segmenting should be the first thing you should work upon. Target an audience that actually/ frequently reads your emails.

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email Marketing Spam Rate 85

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Paid social is, in simple terms, paid advertising that takes place on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, etc with specific targetted audiences in mind. 2 Audience Engagement: Getting the hang of Social SEO is all about creating content that clicks with your audience.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

City Health Dashboard , a project of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health, supported by Forum One, is a model for making their rich data accessible to all of their audiences and at data-driven storytelling. Know your audience. Attract attention with “Snackable” content. Understand your capacity.

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Story Data Storytelling Lesson 67

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. For example, you can understand what impact, if any, a new communication channel had on fundraising outcomes. There are virtually unlimited metrics you can track— if you can collect the data, you can analyze it. Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics.

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Analytics Org Adwords Metrics 52

sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Throughout the year, conduct preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make your audience eager to give when the big day arrives. To expand your audience, consider how you can take a multi-channel marketing approach. Keep in mind that your Giving Tuesday strategy shouldn’t only focus on the day itself.

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Demographics Retention Donor Research 72

Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

If you find that your marketing efforts were misaligned with your audience, conduct more audience research to help understand your supporters better. Give your audience information that will help them identify with the individual featured in your story. This helps put a face to your appeal and generate empathy for your cause.

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Guide Giving Nonprofit Metrics 107

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. Where should we focus our attention? Where should we focus our attention?

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It should be noted that direct mail is just one channel to acquire new donors. A robust fundraising program should use all available channels to acquire, renew and retain donors. We recommend you start with these 7 Key Database Metrics. Understanding your target audience starts with knowing your loyal followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The subscribe option gives you another channel to share public information related to your work or professional life. So, the more you can develop relationships with people and encourage interaction with your content, the more likely they will pay attention to your stuff. Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About.

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Metrics Facebook People Change 129

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Where will your audience see your event advertised? Determine who your audience is. Your ideal audience is unique to your nonprofit and your peer-to-peer fundraising event. Find out where your audience is. Your audience is as unique as your nonprofit. So how can you reach your target audience on social media?

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Practice Marketing Fundraising Social Media 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your marketing plan allows you to connect with a wider audience and inform them of involvement opportunities. Pursuing a multichannel marketing strategy using a variety of channels, from social media and email to direct mail, will allow you to expand your reach and promote your cause to the widest possible audience.

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Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 103

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By translating these lessons into the nonprofit context, we can gain valuable insights into crafting campaigns that inspire participation rather than simply grab attention. You can also employ “drumbeat” advertising strategies that repeatedly expose audiences to your messaging. Lean into what works.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Kindful

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The information that you tag will be invaluable down the road because it will inform how you segment your acquisition audience for upcoming appeals and communications. The channel they prefer. If you acquire donors through different channels, you’ll want to tag the method through which the donor gave to your nonprofit.

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Donor Gift Proposal Tag 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The audience laughed. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. A multi-screen world. Stories are social.

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Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Digital channels have made it affordable for brands to communicate their message to a broad audience. Think about all the emails, social messages, and ads competing for your attention online. You may have written something of value, but none of that matters if you can’t get it in front of your audience.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

And for the first time this year, we are turning our attention to a key fact: sometimes, when the numbers speak, they do so with an accent. But turning your attention to mid-level donors can have some truly eye-popping results. Discussion of the digital space is very often dominated by a US-centric perspective.

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Benchmark Studies Digital Analysis 52

EveryAction

APRIL 6, 2017

Marcella Vitulli: Short answer: because, with the right preparation, automation will take hours of work off of your to-do list and help you reach more supporters across channels automatically. I won’t lie to you: the success of automation is contingent upon understanding your audience and having a solid implementation strategy.

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Marketing Question Nonprofit Social Media 104

Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

A successful fundraising strategy uses a multi-channel approach to spread awareness of your mission, announce important event dates, and reach wider audiences. The point is, the numbers are out there, and your online software can help you track the metrics that matter to you. Social media interactions: Are your posts being seen?

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Practice Strategy Guide Fundraising 52

Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. of their total audience. Your open rate is, of course, one of the most important metrics you’ll want to track.

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email Rate ROI Social Media 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Our attention campaigns are primarily amplified not by our organization alone, or by a dedicated base of supporters we’ve built over many years, but rather by the network of ocean communicators that we regularly contact through the Tide Report, our social media channels, and our blog.

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Campaign Conservancy Measure Method 122

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Define Your Target Audience What kind of members do you want to bring in? This will help you determine who your target audience is. Defining your audience is critical—this step helps you make the most of your membership drive marketing budget, and tailor your strategy and messages to resonate with the right people.

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Benefit Track Associations Marketing 52

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2021

We’ve been paying attention to these developing trends, and have compiled them here for you. While mobile giving may be trendy, it’s still a good idea to utilize a multi-channel fundraising approach to best engage with your network of support. Providing insights into fundraising metrics and trends. Appealing to younger donors.

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Trend Campaign Fundraising Mobile 98

Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

The most attractive aspect of the medium is how intimate the relationship can be with the audience. Podcasting is a unique channel in a world where it is becoming harder and harder to keep someone’s attention. If it were easy… Remember, just because something is difficult to measure doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

You’ll capture your supporters’ attention more effectively by offering them something new or unexpected. Look for a solution that supports essential event tasks from beginning to end and tracks important event metrics, all in one system. You can capture their interest and attention with an innovative or unexpected fundraising approach.

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Raise Tips Fundraising Virtual 52

AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

This quick adoption of digital event technology by event marketers allowed many events to carry on and helped brands and event marketers reach their target audiences even with stay-at-home orders in place. This type of live event will meet your audience where they are, on their terms, and thus creating a deeper impact.

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Guide Virtual Registration Platform 93

DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

Your nonprofit uses a variety of online communication channels, platforms, and tools to streamline your operations and raise funds. Segmenting your supporters not only helps you cater to specific audiences but also increases the chance that your messages will resonate with readers.

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Platform Donor Online Social Media 52

M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers. Some groups had standout years with audience growth and response rate—due in no small part to the pandemic (think: front-line organizations like food banks). Just look at these :heart-eyes: .

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Fundraising Gift Rate email 98