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 80

Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We found over 24 webinars on topics such as: building capacity with Boomer volunteers; social media metrics and benchmarking; project management for non-profits; and numerous leadership and fundraising sessions. So be sure to look through the list to see what might interest you or others in your organization.( read more ).

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Profit Free Benchmark Metrics 129

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. The 2019 M+R Benchmarks Report observed that for certain nonprofit sectors the impact has been “dramatic,” and for health nonprofits, in particular, it appeared “nothing short of transformative.”.

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Facebook Raise Fundraising Audience 217

sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2024

For professional fundraising teams, expanding your pool of prospects could include asking board members , volunteers, and major donors to provide a list of colleagues, corporate contacts, family, and friends, anyone they can recommend who has the capacity to give and an affinity for your cause. Hit them up.

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Effective Tips Fundraising Blackbaud 77

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

For example, organizations might still use in-person meetings as a key metric for gift officers despite communication preferences and habits changing so dramatically post-2020. 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

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Donor management software consolidates these time-consuming processes to make it easier for organizations to utilize donor metrics. Your data can deliver valuable metrics on donors, volunteers, and your team’s performance, allowing you to spot opportunities to adjust or optimize the donor life cycle.

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Donation Blackbaud Retention Gift 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. Planning fundraising events requires coordinating many moving parts, including the event schedule, volunteers, food, prizes, special guests, and more.

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Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 106

Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

For example, some of the most powerful CR incentive programs are paid volunteering and student loan forgiveness. Corporate responsibility software can help companies introduce and manage employee incentive programs, including paid volunteering and student loan forgiveness. Business Strategy Integration.

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Profit Software Benchmark Student 45

CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

Flexible metric counting for donations, activity, and impact. Consider using a tiered approach, by encouraging donors to meet certain fundraising benchmarks to qualify for incentives and prizes. These might be board members, volunteers , program alumni, or anyone else who is likely to put time and effort into this campaign.

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Fundraising Benchmark Campaign Raise 74

NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Email marketing is the foundation for most nonprofits' education, advocacy, volunteering, and fundraising efforts online. Let's take a quick tour of the most important metrics, and take the first step to improving your email campaign performance through evaluation and optimization. Offensive Email Metrics.

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Metrics email Campaign Rate 53

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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These solutions power workplace giving programs by helping to match contributions to nonprofits, track volunteer hours, and manage other company-wide philanthropic efforts. It will help them participate in volunteer programs, sustainability initiatives, and other CSR activities. These may come at an additional cost.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

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. These could include volunteering, participating in core programmatic activities, becoming a donor, joining a committee, etc.

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email Support Online Template 36

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2017

I credit much of the success to one key component of our P2P event strategy: Leadership Volunteers. Leadership volunteers are individuals who dedicate their time and talents to your P2P event prior to event day. 3 Reasons Why Leadership Volunteers Are Pivotal to a Successful P2P Fundraising Strategy: 1.

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Raise Fundraising Cancer Volunteer 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media? What are the returns? I mentioned this on Twitter.

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Social Media Survey Media Social 92

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) I hope the data is useful to everyone.

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Convio Benchmark Studies Social Media 31

Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

And there’s certainly truth with that statement – the 2013 Benchmark Report is broken up by not only NTEE verticals but by revenue band and email tier – but the sheer size of an organization’s email file is starting to mean a lot less. For the last seven years, the Benchmark Report measured total and usable email housefile size.

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email Files Broadcast Metrics 40

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

In their gigantic 2011 email benchmark report, Marketing Sherpa indicated the most effective way to improve email message relevancy was to automatically send email based on triggers.What's a triggered email campaign? For nonprofits, that may mean more event registrants who then volunteer. Ideas for Nonprofit Triggered Emails.

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email Marketing Registration Nonprofit 55

Care2

MAY 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Don’t be too alarmed though.

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Benchmark Social Media Studies Advocacy 28

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

While the big names like The Red Cross and Make a Wish have the headlines and the brand recognition, most nonprofits are bootstrapped organizations filled with passionate workers and volunteers doing what they can with limited resources. And while that may sound simple in practice, you need the right tools and the right plan.

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Marketing Fundraising Test Nonprofit 198

Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. 7 Ways to Prove Your Charity Can Be Trusted : Make sure your organization looks trustworthy to prospective donors and volunteers.

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Resource Blackbaud Chart Retention 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

You might find that employees or volunteers at your organization use your website frequently throughout the day. This filter may affect your key metrics, and you’ll want to make sure to be able to quantify the effect it has made on your data. After you have recorded the deltas in your benchmark metrics, you have 2 options.

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Analytics Google Profile Metrics 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. Improved relationships with donors or volunteers. Change in behavior of target audiences.

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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Forget the hundreds of metrics that are being spat out and focus on what matters most for your nonprofit. For nonprofit marketers in particular, tracking conversion metrics on supporter behavior is what you should probably be focused on — versus just viewing vanity metrics of how many people have visited your website.

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Analytics Goal Conversation Rate 28

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. A smart approach to better understanding the perspective of the user is to actually have a user volunteer to test drive your site while you monitor their behavior. Allison: It depends.

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Design Websites Practice Philadelphia 35

Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Analytics Google Social Media Websites 54

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

” 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. Data can be any number of things for organizations from number of volunteers, donations received, number of website visitors, average number of Facebook likes, and so on.

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Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Those smaller budgets translate to smaller staff sizes or heavier reliance on volunteers for all facets of program management, which result in less consistency in grantseeking. Here's another metric, which I think may prove useful to the grantseekers for younger organizations. It's because they have smaller budgets.

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Grant Award Proposal Calendar 51

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

Strategies we have seen for successful giving days include: strong communications plans leading up to events, faculty, students and presidents as the ‘faces’ of these focused efforts, and the full engagement of alumni volunteers. James Wiley: We are seeing a lot of institutions use reports like these to benchmark for their institution.

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Education Trend Conversation Giving 23

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

You can insert personalized content that: Cultivates (thank recent donors/volunteers; report how gifts were used). MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey. Blackbaud’s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits. How to Personalize Your Emails.

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email Campaign Test Benchmark 48

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Constituent relationship management (CRM) refers to the various processes that nonprofits use to steward and build relationships with donors, volunteers, advocates, members, and other constituents to secure ongoing support. Overview of CRM for Nonprofits. recurring gifts, planned gifts, and tributes), and process donations.

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Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

And I learned a few other things: Social Media is More than Vanity Metrics. The next generation’s givers, activists, volunteers, and leaders are being raised with a computer in their hands. Access to data and information will validate our strategies , show us when and where we’re wrong, and help us benchmark our performance.

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Guatemala Social Media Influence Chart 37

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. With these experiments you can establish your own benchmarks. Put your nonprofit out there and see how it performs.

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Offline Support Online Donor 38

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2015

Instead, focus on the metrics that affect revenue. Google Analytics gives you lots of metrics to watch — but there are only three that directly contribute to revenue.”. Nonprofit organizations just starting out: “Start building support – fundraising and volunteer – before you think you’re ready.

Share 28

Share Tips Fundraising Test 28

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Once you understand what actions you want to drive on the day, set milestones and benchmarks for success. Determine what success looks like across every channel—clicks, impressions, engagement, donations, shares—and ensure that all team members understand which metric they’re responsible for. Will there be matching gifts?

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Campaign Create Giving Org 48

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74