TechImpact

MAY 22, 2013

The world of nonprofits has no shortage of studies and reports claiming to contain answers for many of the problems facing organizations today. Many of the studies feature examinations of trends and benchmarks, but many offer ways to improve operations moving forward. Blog Fundraising Tech nonprofit nonprofit cloud npTech'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I wrote about it in Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : Communities begin to grow exponentially when they reach 5,000 members. Large national and international nonprofits have little problem reaching this benchmark, but small and some medium-size nonprofits will.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

posted by Becca Herbstritt Spring 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. The need for collaboration amongst a diverse array of community members has become a recognized focus within the nonprofit sector. Implications for the nonprofit sector. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As your nonprofit starts to blossom, don’t be surprised if you are conflicted over how much to spend on nonprofit administration, especially fundraising. But you have to spend some money on running your nonprofit. And if you don’t have a budget , that’s an even bigger problem!). But if free is a MUST, that’s a problem.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. If you’re a brand new nonprofit, it’s going to take you a while to get up to speed.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 18, 2020

A recent report estimated that 39 percent of nonprofits hope to diversify their workforce in the areas of race, age, gender, identity and differing abilities in 2019. Do they really need to have a certain number of years of experience at a nonprofit? . And for good reason. Reconsider job descriptions and requirements. Author Bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What is the way out of this problem? To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. Nonprofits looking to reassess or develop a new technical strategy should consider partnering with a nonprofit technology consulting firm. Your nonprofit is unique, so your solutions and strategies should be too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. What about your nonprofit? Want to better understand the use cases for AI and nonprofits in fundraising, programs, and other areas? AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Starting from 1999, FusionSpark Media has produced a wide range of content initiatives for nonprofit and government agencies in the topic areas of environment, sustainability and health. For many nonprofits, funding or writing a content strategy as an essential content marketing “first step” is a new or foreign concept.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

This guide to grants for nonprofits covers the basics of grants including types of grants, examples, where to find grants, and tips for grant writing. Because grants usually come from larger entities, the amount of money your nonprofit receives is generally higher than donations you would get from an individual or small business.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In past blogs we’ve talked seemingly ad nausea about how technology, donation forms, and social media can support a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. Social media in particular is where nonprofits are turning to get their mission talked about, with the ultimate goal of driving more donations to that mission. The community.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. That’s a problem. Here’s a list of 6 things you can do to get your nonprofit website ready for the holidays. First things first!

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. 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. It is a big deal.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 11, 2016

We’re just over halfway through 2016 and, if we’ve learned anything so far, it’s that online fundraising has really found its stride in the nonprofit sector. Let’s take a look at some newly released nonprofit email deliverability findings and find out what you can do to reduce fundraising revenue losses simply by sending better email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2011

So I haven’t been paying attention to Bing in my SEO efforts – that must be the problem!&# So I did some benchmarking. No, that wasn’t the problem. In fact, in general for the set of phrases I used for benchmarking, Bing more often had me higher up in the results than Google! And I thought “aha!

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For a long time, the nonprofit sector was largely insulated from the pressures of competition common in the for-profit world. As more and more organizations enter the nonprofit arena, however, attention from donors and volunteers becomes increasingly precious.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Through her work with clients like the Wildlife Conservation Society and her love of (math) problem solving, Amy has picked up a lot of wisdom + I wanted to better understand her process for approaching a social media campaign and measuring its efficacy. Measuring beyond "likes". Ready to start posting?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Your nonprofit needs a strategic fundraising plan to approach fundraising intentionally. Each step in your fundraising plan has a purpose and that purpose is to help your nonprofit raise crucial funds you need to achieve your mission. It’s important because it keeps nonprofits from floundering around in the dark.

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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. 3 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to be More Energy Efficient. Thanks for the great tips Natalie! .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. In July 2015, two of the earliest SIBs in the US reported markedly different results from which a nonprofit manager can learn.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 29, 2014

posted by Ryan Stewart Owner Marketic As the owner of a Miami based SEO and digital marketing agency, I''ve helped hundreds of businesses solve complicated marketing problems. Read Johann Beishline''s " Four ways to improve your nonprofit marketing efforts ". Like this article? Get another! marketing marketing plan Ryan Stewart'

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you’ve raised $25,000 so far this year and know that nonprofits commonly raise around 30% of their revenue during the end of the year, you could try setting a goal of $11,550. 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. fundraising goals.

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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. And most nonprofits, even the biggest ones, don’t know if any of it actually works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content. Michael’s guest post explains more: A Better Way to Produce Reports Nonprofit Annual Reports , guest post by Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. How can they get started?

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce. Now, you’ve got the perfect solution for any analytical problem you’re trying to solve (Check out this webinar that shows this solution in action). Blog: What Can Marketing Cloud Do For Nonprofits?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. Within the report you can view the same data broken out by continent. For this year’s report, 4,908 NGOs participated.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kachuriak and the NextAfter team conducted a survey among 500 nonprofit executives, consultants, managers, and practitioners. Assessing core traits relating to behavior and motivation, the result s reveal three key insights that affect the hiring behavior of nonprofits: Nonprofits seem to be hiring at random.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What steps should an organization take to audit their nonprofit website performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Trudel | MacPherson, in partnership with Neuer Media, has devised a comprehensive survey to benchmark current social media investment, attitudes and evaluation by arts organizations of all sizes and across all disciplines. A strong signal that social media will remain a fixture in the marketing toolkit of arts organization nationwide.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

." 4 Results from Crowdsource Experiment at #12NTC: Nerd, Geek and Gear Herding « Sage Words – "At the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) in San Francisco, California, we led a session called Nerd, Geek, and Gear Herding 2.0. What does social media success look like, anyway?" The full report is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been doing biannual survey of nonprofit technology benchmarks for its regional nonprofits (Southwestern Pennsylvania) for the past ten years. Bear in mind that is the reality of social media adoption with most nonprofits. I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

The problem is that most people are already doing something before they decide to measure. The problem is that most people are already doing something before they decide to measure. So THEN the problem is figuring out whether the relationships have improved due to social media or something else. Let me know in the comments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The past decade has been rife with ideas on how to scale up successful nonprofit organizations.

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