CauseVox

APRIL 6, 2023

However, with the right strategies and tools, small nonprofits can achieve exponential results. Key benchmarking metrics to plan and track small peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns Best practices for setting fundraising goals, recruiting and engaging peer-to-peer fundraisers, creating compelling campaigns, and measuring success.

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Fundraising Benchmark Metrics Nonprofit 75

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. It’s also objectively measurable through concrete KPIs. You’ll need to not only collect it to measure progress and discuss performance but also to establish benchmarks for future reference and growth.

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Retention Management Tips Nonprofit 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 88

Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

How will you measure the success of your paid advertising campaign? Clicks CTR Form Submissions The result? One of the best ways to plan your overall budget and budget by channel is by looking at specific KPI benchmarks for each channel, your industry, etc., email signup, donation completion, purchase) UTM parameters in place 5.

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Tips Organization Channel Benchmark 52

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? Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Benchmark Network Learning API 95

Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. boost in their conversion rates.

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Benchmark Digital Trend Report 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 98

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 81

NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes. The results of the study are available in this graphic report.

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Studies Data Report Management 89

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They may also use CSR platforms to track their own contributions and impact.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Your goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. However, if your goal is SMART—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound—you’ll have a clear benchmark to work toward and measure progress. Track progress. Set goals for your volunteer program.

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Volunteer Program Roles Training 94

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. They set out to raise £750 for a new machine to measure oxygen levels in babies’ blood, but significantly exceed their original target. Get Planning Now.

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Giving Tips Game Digital 112

DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking.

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Metrics Gift Track Tech 52

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Benchmarking, forecasting, and determining how your organization fares with its supporters is difficult when there is a data gap. Meaning they have to scramble to get back on track and are months, or even years, behind because they slowed or stopped communications. They are behind the curve.

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Benefit Marketing Change Time 64

Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

Especially in the beginning of their employment, many benchmarks beyond gift income must be mutually agreed upon. A huge measure of progress should be the number of quality touches a fundraiser has with donor prospects. Development professionals must be recognized and respected for their expertise.

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Fundraising Retention Gift Nonprofit 70

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This has resulted in Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management (FPM), a CRM overlay that empowers major gifts officers to successfully manage relationships with prospects and raise gifts. But, that’s significantly more difficult when gift officers aren’t interested in logging and tracking that data. Peer Benchmarking.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Corporate responsibility can be incredibly impactful for business performance and profits, but unfortunately, many CR efforts, especially when it comes to workplace giving, are still broad and poorly measured with little or no direct connection to business performance. Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting.

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Profit Software Benchmark Student 45

sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. Calculating ROI of capital campaigns is an important way to measure the effectiveness of your fundraising and the performance of your strategies.

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ROI Campaign Gift Metrics 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. What are the results?

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

One of the study’s authors, Mary Trudel, wrote a guest post back in 2011 summarizing the results. They are in the process of updating the study and have some preliminary results to share. Click here to participate in the survey: Full results will be published in early 2014 on the Trudel | MacPherson website.

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Social Media Arts Social Media 106

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Q: What should my organization be tracking?

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Metrics Facebook Question Benchmark 64

NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

My point is that it CAN happen (In fact, I saw some examples today of non-profits achieving results like this), but a lot of non-profits shoot them selves in the foot by forgetting to do the basics of email marketing correctly. The results consisted of over 3000 paid event registrants and $10,000.00 Lacking Analytics.

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email Profit Registration Review 212

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems.

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Report Measure Process Impact 83

Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2015

This year we’ll be producing the third edition of the annual report — Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends ! 15% say they are successful at tracking ROI; however, having a documented content marketing strategy helps (34% of those who possess one say they are successful at tracking ROI).

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Benchmark Survey Content Marketing 20

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. You should always keep your focus on growing your organization, so make sure your goals are consistently higher than your past fundraising results. Identify and track key performance indicators.

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Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Do you have the staff/capacity to give all the time that is required to get results? You need to set up a benchmarking process. About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Let's start with your blog. Which one of these is sending you traffic. What advice you offer?

Social Media 50

Social Media Advice Measure Strategy 50

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Here at NTEN, we find it valuable to keep track of both numbers. The traditional measure of open rates – total messages opened ÷ total messages delivered – should be used to gauge the overall health of your e-mail program. The average of all the open rates of every message you send is a measure of how well you segment your lists.

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Rate Open Benchmark Mail 61

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

Higher Education Leaders Discuss 2017 Higher Education Charitable Giving Results. Tracking KPIs related to a rise in activity of institutions’ networks, such as page visits, community engagement, and other networking activity is key. Sue Cunningham: I think these reports are valuable in different ways to advancement leaders.

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Education Trend Conversation Giving 23

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2019

McKinsey Quarterly focuses on transparency, empathy, and meaning—timeless and increasingly timely— and that all are defining a new leadership benchmark. CompassPoint and McKinsey & Company each mention in their various research on talent what new hires and loyal employees value. Simply hiring staff does not guarantee success.

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Team Gift Philanthropy Benchmark 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Photo by eschipul Yesterday's SXSW Nonprofit Social Media Poetry Slam was so much fun and from the feedback we all learned a lot about measuring the return of social media for nonprofits. Who knew that using the discipline of poetic form could generate such a great discussion about measurement and metrics.

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Social Media Reflection Media ROI 50

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Currently, nonprofit organizations are measuring effectiveness in a variety of ways including benchmarking, organizational effectiveness evaluations, key performance indicators, and outcome based evaluation. Benchmarking. Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015).

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Practice Effective Impact Evaluation 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100