M+R

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

One way to stand out in a crowded inbox is with eye-catching design — animated graphics, countdown clocks, fun graphics, photography and more. For a more robust data set and many, many, many charts, stay tuned for the upcoming 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study! Sign up here to be the first to know when the latest Benchmarks is released.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

From personalized solicitation efforts and effective stewardship to leveraging best-in-class technology and data-driven insights, think of these strategies as your roadmap for optimal major giving success! Explore legacy and planned giving opportunities. Want to learn more about major giving?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Collect data from as many clients as possible Our research showed that it is essential to collect survey responses from as broad and representative a sample of your client population as possible. If you can trust the data to be representative, you can trust it to yield actionable insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? The original data set was collected in a google spreadsheet , using a manual and time consuming data collection process.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is undeniable momentum in online fundraising as highlighted by data in the Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report 2020. There are a few data points from the Benchmark Report that offer a glimpse into the future of online fundraising: 42.4% Hopefully we will never repeat 2020. increase in email conversion rate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. 28-Day Summary Featured on the Twitter Analytics Dashboard: Data Provided for Tweets: 9) Experiment with Twitter Ads.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nonprofit professionals are constantly being challenged to be more “data-driven” in their work. Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. But they often find it difficult to know where to begin.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most valuable assets that any nonprofit can have is consistent marketing and paid advertising data—this is especially true in the midst of a major crisis or shift that deeply impacts society, like tough financial times or global events. Based on the data, shifting funds away from acquisition spend may become a reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

By Josh Kashorek , Director of Marketing at Journity , and advocate for using data to create high-performance nonprofit marketing campaigns. Technology is making it much easier to personalize the donation ask, based on CRM data or other factors, so you can make sure you’re making an ask that is appropriate to the donor. 5) Retention.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recent data from the global consulting firm Spencer Stuart shows that 98% of S&P 500 boards conduct a board evaluation of some type, although only about a third review the board as a whole, individual directors, and committees as part of the process. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 An annual survey is a good start.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report. Surprisingly, there is little concrete data on which set of donation amounts results in the highest increase in online giving. Monthly donors give $35.46 As a result, securing more monthly donor revenue is a high priority for nonprofits.

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Classy

JULY 21, 2021

Whether you have a recurring giving option or a robust recurring giving program, our 2021 Recurring Donor Sentiment Report brings you direct feedback and data points to optimize your efforts. Fuel Your Recurring Donation Program With Fresh Data. Benchmark Your Recurring Donation Strategy. Get Results in Minutes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . Track your own data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. M+R Benchmarks Report. According to the 2021 Open Data Project , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have experienced a cyberattack (email phishing, website hacking, ransomware, etc.).

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

A national panel of judges was engaged in reviewing all entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and overall impact. Compass is an app designed to support parents in their journey from pregnancy through postpartum by providing answers, resources, and compassion at every step.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data).

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fundraising IQ is a collection of AI, machine learning, and data science tools designed to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to maximize their impact by simplifying day-to-day tasks.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pro tip: you might need to use a benchmark lower than four actions if your action opportunities were sparse over the past six months. Check out some of our findings and data-driven recommendations from our first nonprofit advocacy email welcome series study ! Prepare to schedule recess meetings for the President’s Day recess.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2022

Display and contextual advertising: image or video ads that serve on websites across the internet, designed to target specific people or types of websites. Use benchmarks to set your budget. The M+R 2022 Benchmarks have a section devoted to nonprofit digital advertising with breakdowns by format, organization size, and cause area.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If your nonprofit is looking for more reasons to dial in on mobile messaging, M+R’s Benchmarks report has found that texting is growing in the nonprofit sphere—these are just a few key points from 2021’s report : SMS audience sizes grew by 26 percent over the previous year—much faster growth than email audience sizes. Fundraising.

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M+R

AUGUST 7, 2023

As we close out summer and head into fall, M+R is presenting a full slate of webinars that are designed to jump-start your fundraising plans. REGISTER NOW Tuesday, October 10 at 2pm ET Get ready to join some of M+R’s most enthusiastic and knowledgeable digital fundraising experts for data-driven, information-packed, fun-filled webinars.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Consider using Google Analytics dashboards for nonprofits to help simplify the process of gathering data and drawing meaningful conclusions. According to M+R Benchmarks , half of nonprofit website traffic comes from mobile and tablet users. What sections of our website are getting the most and least attention in terms of page views?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Collins leads One & All’s Giving Sciences group, which applies data science to charitable giving. The rear-view perspective of a recession (officially designated by the National Bureau of Economic Research) means that we might not know whether we’re in one until after-the-fact. Follow the Leaders.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The annual report includes things like your organization’s major accomplishments, benchmarks, and constituent success stories. After sharing the mission statement, vision statement, and core values, your annual report should then show how your organization executed those through data and story. Share key indicators. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Blue Fox

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That is the thinking behind The Board Doctor's Wellness Test with 10 questions designed to provide a snapshot of how well a nonprofit board of directors is functioning in its governance role. Results will be available next year, along with benchmarking for future takers of the Wellness Test. Take Me There!

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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. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective. Data is a decision.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. And while I’m usually able to offer some general guidance, nonprofit website design best practices have never been my area of expertise. Allison : Mine the data.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mind Your Design When you use consistent branding , members will learn to associate your organization with a certain look. When developing the design of your member newsletter, remember that branding matters. Share upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, organization updates, etc.,

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Let’s say you wanted to do more with your reporting – not necessarily in terms of greater capability, but perhaps more data sources. Salesforce is an infinitely configurable and scalable system for managing data, no matter your industry or field of business.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 Q: One of the tips from Harvard Business Review 2 on how to set up programs for success is to set goals, collect data and examine change overtime. That survey established a critical baseline that we can use to benchmark our progress in the future.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Presenter(s): Amanda Halacy, Senior Strategist, Forum One; Julia Bradshaw , User Experience Design Lead , Forum One. 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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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2011

At the Nonprofit Technology Conference last month, I got the chance to sit in on the session about the 2011 Social Networking Benchmark Report. Record a member’s social media data in the database.This can be requested on the membership form, entered manually over time, or added using a social discovery service.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013. But, sometimes it’s important for nonprofits to take a step back and assess what their social media accounts, and the commentary on those accounts were designed to do.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 18, 2023

If your organization falls beneath these benchmarks, you’ll need to file Form 990-EZ or Form 990-N. Form 990 is designed to paint a detailed picture of your nonprofit for the IRS. Thus, some of the information required on Form 990 goes beyond financial data. What information do I need to file Form 990?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

As of 2019 (no retroactive data prior), Apple iTunes Connect has podcast analytics for feeds hosted on the platform. The interface is designed well but sadly it still does not show subscribers. Before you feel bad about your data note that these numbers are ONLY from devices that use the Apple Podcast app.

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