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Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study. By: Rebecca Shore.

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3 Grassroots advocacy milestones to meet this month

EveryAction

The change in congressional leadership and redistricting means you might no longer have highly-trained volunteers in the districts where you need them most. Pro tip: you might need to use a benchmark lower than four actions if your action opportunities were sparse over the past six months.

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Think Email’s Dead? Metrics from the Online Benchmark Report Disagree

Connection Cafe

Blackbaud’s annual Online Benchmark report was released earlier this month at #bbcon and the results speak largely to a positive outlook for nonprofit fundraising. . Flat open rates represent a very big change from the recent past. Total online fundraising is up 8% YOY, with double digit growth in both repeat and sustained giving.

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Don’t Miss These 10 Nonprofit Conferences in 2023 & 2024

Neon CRM

TNPA Leadership Summit Date: September 19-23, 2023 Location: Washington, D.C. In addition to expert speakers and interactive breakouts, attendees will also gain access to important data and benchmarking to help them guide their organizations into the future. Good Tech Fest Date: TBD Location: Washington, D.C. &

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Taking Baby Steps to Social Media Maturity with Your Peers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reporting begins with benchmarking. Beth adapted her lesson that month so we could focus on how the changes would affect our reporting process. Meg Biallas is a Communications Associate with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in Washington, D.C. She blogs about social media on her personal blog , Meg Goes To Washington. ).

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report is often an important piece of research designed to show leadership on an issue and attract the attention of the press and governments to affect social change. For example, CREW –Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington just released a report about. how payday lenders have increased payments to lobbyists.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Prior to his current role, he served as executive director and chief operating officer for The Salvation Army National Capital region in Washington, D.C. Eleanor Meyers.

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