Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. Report Highlights.

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Review Benchmark Advocacy Database 120

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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EveryAction

MAY 15, 2017

EveryAction's own Email Deliverability Specialist examined email data from over 50 national nonprofits and measured them against the latest benchmarks - what he found will surprise you. Based on the latest benchmark figures from M+R, our study found that over 18 percent of nonprofit fundraising emails ended up in junk folders in 2016.

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Spam Rate Studies email 134

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. An assessment tool can help identify strengths, challenges and gaps and help the board hold themselves accountable to reaching benchmarks and goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What is your process for reviewing and improving your campaigns?

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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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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. However, the benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used.

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Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

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. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ].

Measure 81

Measure Issue Impact Method 81

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits.

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Develop Management Gift Proposal 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It can sit on top of any CRM solution, Blackbaud or otherwise, and is focused on helping your team identify, set, and monitor goals and benchmark performance against internal and industry peers. Peer Benchmarking. You also gain access to an advisor and regular meetings to review your program. Stand-Out Features of Blackbaud FPM.

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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. Can you talk about how Blackbaud measures the success of their goals? It allows us to “walk the talk”!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Video engagement on social media is the measurable action that viewers take after watching. We studied 778 nonprofit organizations’ video posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019 to establish benchmarks, identify trends, and uncover insights. What Is Video Engagement and Why Is It Important?

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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. Set goals for your volunteer program. Maintain open communication.

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Volunteer Program Roles Training 88

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Review their strategic plan and incorporate goals that are tied to increasing specific types of technology that will further the mission of the organization and increase the impact of the work that they do.

Impact 52

Impact Technology Arizona Channel 52

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In case you missed it, we also unveiled our brand new 2011 Peer-to-Peer Event Benchmarking paper, and talked through how to use data to inform your event strategy. Pick up the guide here >> You can also review the presentation below (using Prezi): Let's Get Nerdy!

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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. This year, Forum One took home three gold, two silver, two bronze, and one merit award in the website, apps, and interactive, and annual report categories.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

July 1 represents a new fiscal year for many nonprofits, a time to review programs and previous goals to be sure they’re aligned with the mission and to establish new benchmarks. These are measured in weeks or months and support the long-term goals. These are measured in years and originate in the mission statement.

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Goal Phoenix Arizona Nonprofit 61

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

These could be supporters that have a measured history with your organization, or it could be entirely new candidates that you want to steward for the first time. Note that the goal for these prospects should be quantitative and measurable. Benchmarks that determine what the next steps would be.

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Effective Management Guide Fundraising 98

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

According to new research in Harvard Business Review , 89% of workers have reported a decline in their workplace wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. You cannot manage what you cannot measure. As employers reflect on what has been done and what needs to be improved on, it’s crucial to put employee well-being at the forefront.

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Tips Companies Evaluation Benchmark 62

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. What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success? Why is it important to track fundraising benchmarks?

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Metrics Gift Track Tech 52

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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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I had the chance to review a few email marketing campaigns today. The rest of the campaigns I reviewed didn’t do much right at all. Based on my review here’s 5 reasons why email messages fail. Pay attention to this trend and start reviewing your email content with an eye for length. Weak Subject.

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email Profit Registration Review 212

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Review Past Performance The best fundraising goals will be based on historical fundraising performance. Even if you don’t reach it this year, you’ll have set an important benchmark you can use to inform next year’s goals. These steps will help you set an ambitious (but achievable) goal.

Campaign 98

Campaign Fundraising Retention Template 98

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You can simply choose to “subscribe” to that report (or even a collection of reports, in a dashboard), choose when you want the report emailed to you, and add that VP as a recipient too; and you both get that report automatically delivered to your inbox, in time for review in the weekly meeting.

Blackbaud 88

Blackbaud Report Analytics Database 88

Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2021

According to new research in Harvard Business Review , 89% of workers have reported a decline in their workplace wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. You cannot manage what you cannot measure. As employers reflect on what has been done and what needs to be improved on, it’s crucial to put employee well-being at the forefront.

Tips 36

Tips Companies Evaluation Benchmark 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Reporting begins with benchmarking.

Social Media 96

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2011

If Zoos and Aquariums had a benchmarking process or what I starting to call “ bench learning &# where there is a dashboard of peer metrics to review and discuss with peers, they might discover a wealth of insights. Do you benchmark your organization with peers in your sub-sector? But is that really true?

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Social Media Connecticut San Francisco Learning 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

” I will have a full book review coming. We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern. Please tell us if you know of one!

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Comparison 126

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. I’ve perused the demos, and it does look like it would be useful for reviews of things like specs, wireframes, etc. at 11:06 am Hi Michelle, Thank you for your review of ReviewBasics! They’ve been doing some nonprofit research.

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Open Source Convio Benchmark RSS 111

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 track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

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. A good MGO knows how to schedule time to set appointments, prepare and review research, prep for visits, and follow up. Take stock of the situation in your organization before hiring.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. Robin’s asking, “Writing a grant, how can you report impact and add measures to success with looking for funding for a pilot program?”

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Report Measure Impact Process 78

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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