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. So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! Q: I missed the webinar.

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Metrics Facebook Question Benchmark 64

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is undeniable momentum in online fundraising as highlighted by data in the Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report 2020. So, the real question is: what will online fundraising look like moving forward? So, the real question is: what will online fundraising look like moving forward? Boost Email Engagement.

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Online Fundraising Benchmark Adwords 98

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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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Review reporting. Work closely with administrators to identify reports that need to be run and the metrics to track during the campaign, which will inform your fund setup and gift entry process. Agree on a report format and frequency so everyone knows what they need to report on and how often. Clean up portfolios.

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Database Goal Campaign Phase 78

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2024

Performance metrics should be both quantitative and qualitative. My favorite question for employers is, “A year from now, how would you know you made the right hiring decision?” Present a progress report in an easy-to-understand format that provides updates on what you have accomplished.

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Advice Job Fundraising Texas 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Photo by lecercle.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. Question : How does spending 12 weeks using the book compare to the length of time to earn an MBA degree? Model cooperative behavior.

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Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help. Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. This article will dissect the different types of nonprofit sector reports you may come across in your own research.

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Hype Research Marketing Benchmark 52

M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

June 24, 2–3:30pm ET: “2021 M+R Benchmarks: A Deep Dive” with The Nonprofit Alliance. This year’s annual M+R Benchmarks Study includes front-page news, long-form analysis, mild-mannered reporting, and even a crossword puzzle all about the newest news and topical trends affecting nonprofit digital marketing, advocacy, and fundraising. .

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Benchmark Studies Digital Analysis 52

M+R

JULY 27, 2023

Read time: 5 minutes Most nonprofits, even the smallest ones, include supporter cultivation in their messaging mix — the occasional thank-you email, an annual impact report, maybe a robocall at year end. That assumption was also backed by years of UCS’s email fundraising metrics consistently beating M+R benchmarks.

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Fundraising Test Advocacy Metrics 52

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 ). To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers.

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Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

M+R

MAY 31, 2022

We saw some of the impacts of these changes in this year’s Benchmarks. Some (including our friends at EveryAction and ActionKit) are using the data about when, where, and how the tracking pixel has been downloaded to separate out different types of opens, so you can see two metrics for “human open rate” and “combined open rate.”

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Mail Spam Rate email 105

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. But what do we actually do with our data once we pull that report? Warm Bodies. These participants have either raised little to no money.

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M+R

JUNE 5, 2023

Infrastructure : you’ll still need some: staff to manage influencer relationships, ways to track and report on metrics — essentially what your digital program already does. Looking for benchmarks? We’ve got some Benchmarks. ” Organizers, volunteers, and activists will beat back our conservative opponents.

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Conservancy Influence Mail Headline 78

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And last year the AFL-CIO reported CEO-to-median-worker pay ratios ranged from 6:1 to over 6,000:1 for the largest, publicly traded companies (i.e., The Council on Foundations ’ annual survey and report on staff salaries and benefits at U.S. The median for all reported CEO salaries in 2022 was $200,000. How do U.S.

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 93

sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 68

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. But is this the right question? Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Where does the learning go?

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 88

NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. But the Benchmarks Study is really meant to help you think (or rethink!) Source Everything ! Let's say you want to track your email fundraising open rate.

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Metrics Benchmark Rate Newsletter 55

NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research.

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Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Identify Your Priorities Define and Document Your Pro c edures Prepare Your Database Review Existing Portfolios or Assign New Portfolios Train Your Team Establish a Feedback Loop Track and Review Your Metrics. Errors in data entry will produce inaccurate reports and impact portfolio management. Step 7: Track and Review Your Metrics.

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Database Track Donor Management 52

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data management plan, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Nonprofit data management plans: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. QUESTION: When you gave an example of a data management plan, you started from a fundraising plan. Not sure = 40%.

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Data Management Rate Benchmark 133

Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? Schenekenberg. Data Analysis. Respond here.

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Summary Social Media Measure Media 94

Media Cause

AUGUST 15, 2022

I’ve sat at a lot of tables where the question at hand is, how can we involve our supporters? Let me take a moment to be upfront: You should only keep reading if you really want to explore the question in the title of this blog. Here are three questions I’d like to consider with you: What do you ask supporters to do?

Support 52

Support Advocacy Policy Hints 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics. A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator.

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Resource Jordan Benchmark Calendar 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Note from Beth: One question that I get asked at almost every workshop is about budget. What are the valued metrics? While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. The full report can already be downloaded here.

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Social Media Survey Media Social 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Set Program Goals & Metrics. Start with the question, “what does success look like?” Clarify quantifiable outcomes or metrics that can be easily measured on a routine basis. Report Out. newsletters, social media, blogs, annual reports, etc.). newsletters, social media, blogs, annual reports, etc.).

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Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. Why is it important?”

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Report Measure Process Impact 82

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The beginning of the fundraising year often leads to fundraisers asking themselves some age-old questions: What initiatives are working? Sadly, often before fundraisers can start to address these questions, they are quickly distracted by the next fundraising initiative. I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

The model works well because it helps organization identify incremental improvements and build their capacity. We started with doing the assessment in the social media measurement peer group to answer these three questions: What level of social media practice is your nonprofit? What’s needed for improvement? Case study is here ).

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Measure Social Media Media Social 98

NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maybe the first question here should be: do you know what list "churn" is? To whet your appetite for the full report, here's a great peek at the charts regarding Facebook page churn: Basically, "churn" is the term used to describe the rate at which subscribers – be they in your email lists, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, etc.

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Rate Facebook Chart Metrics 95

BoardAssist

MAY 16, 2017

” In this week’s guest post Natalie McKeon of the Environmental Defense Fund offers a great answer to that question – help your nonprofit become more energy efficient and save them money at the same time. It’s important to have benchmark energy metrics so your organization can set attainable efficiency goals.

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Museum Metrics Nonprofit New York 45

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Get the report and read it. Well, this report has some pretty telling data. While retention rates have been lower, there are opportunities and questions we still need to address.

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Attention Metrics Online Fundraising 36

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. ” TechSoup’s Coleridge likens analytics to a roadmap that guides where an organization wants to go with benchmarks that mark the progression to a goal. Five Reports Every Nonprofit Should Know. Additional Resources.

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Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

M+R surveyed organizations about their onboarding strategies for its 2016 Benchmarks Report and found that "Sixty-four percent of respondents send at least one dedicated welcome message to new subscribers. Review Your Email Metrics and Freshen Your Welcome Series Twice a Year. Craft a Series of Email Messages.

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