Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2013

So when I saw that The Millennial Impact released benchmarks. The benchmarks are based off results from the Millennial Impact Survey , which was conducted by Achieve, a creative services agency that works with organizations to understand how Millennials get involved in causes. How the Benchmarks Work. The Benefit of Benchmarks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. 2) Tweet or retweet 2-10 times daily from early morning to late evening. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Plain language is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it. Plain Language Resources: Big Duck’s Plain Language for Nonprofits. They focus your nonprofit on tracking and reporting impact which is essential for fundraising success. Resource: How to Write a Nonprofit Impact Report.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

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., There are tons of online resources that share benchmarks for specific channels and industries—like Wordstream and TechSoup. Test, Test, Test!

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

These insights help organizations tailor their engagement strategies and ensure that your team’s time and resources go to the individuals most likely to contribute significantly⁠—which increases the ROI (return on investment) of your major giving efforts.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this article and video tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to set up a story measurement system, and how to track and analyze your data. You’ll start with your initial “investment” costs like staff time and additional costs (ie photos). Additional Resources to Continue Your Learning Being strategic with your storytelling pays off.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

Unfortunately, it’s also several times more expensive to acquire new donors than retain old ones. At the same time, nonprofits are struggling to retain fundraisers and crucial development staff. So what can nonprofit leaders do to combat staff turnover and improve donor retention rates at the same time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. Page Views: Total number of times a Page was viewed per day. What is the way out of this problem?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Each step you take with a prospect, from the first communication to receiving a gift, needs to be carefully tracked and planned for. In the nonprofit world, this tracking process is referred to as moves management. You can raise more funding and avoid rebuilding processes from scratch each time you want to secure a major gift.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. Investing the time and resources necessary not only to track but act on donor retention rates should be one of your organization’s top priorities.

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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. Be clear about shift times and locations. Invest in the right software.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. Maybe your team is expending a ton of resources on prospects that historically wouldn’t be strong prospects for major giving. Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One-off fundraisers have their time and place, but if you want to truly make an impact, it’s time to start thinking about major gifts. If you haven’t refreshed your major gift program, now’s the time to start. Do you have enough resources to fund a program? What Are Major Gifts? Is it clear and relevant?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 10, 2013

After the technology has been added to your organization’s daily workflow, take some time and gain feedback from your staff. Benchmarking. Keep track of future upgrades, department needs, and the allocation of resources. Leverage Existing Resources. What would make adoption easier? Assess each what changed.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

According to tracking for 20,000 top podcasts, the listeners have tripled in monthly podcast listeners over the past 5 years to 75 million (RawVoice). Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Blue Fox

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Results will be available next year, along with benchmarking for future takers of the Wellness Test. So, when it is time to find out for sure whether your board is on the right track or needs to make some adjustments, The Board Doctor is here for you! Want to just talk it through? Set up a free initial consultation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recurring Donation Benefits Here are some additional ways recurring donations benefit nonprofit organizations: Attracts New Donors Attracting new donors is a challenging process that involves time-consuming marketing outreach and financial investment. This data is important for donors to access for tax purposes.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness …”. Does it seem like the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities sum up the times we’re living in today? We tend to view our lives in terms of superlatives. Nonprofits have the potential to Do.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. for ACH transactions.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a new year and that means a new, comprehensive benchmark report on the performance of nonprofits using Luminate Online. Data showcases impact and lets us know how far off/on track we are. It also takes time to see growth and movement. The ultimate benchmark, the one that really matters, is YOUR performance.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. According to the Nonprofit Email Engagement Benchmark Study by M+R , the average email open rate for nonprofits is around 25%, while the click-through rate hovers at 2.5%. Is it time to take a step back and reevaluate your communication strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A donation thermometer to help keep track of how much has been raised so far. Step 6: You track participant performance and reap the rewards. . Once your supporters and donors see you hit one donation benchmark, they’ll be inspired to continue to give as your goal increases. Click here for a free template. Tips & Tricks.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Specific audience-centric communications will help you relate to individual constituents and give you the ability to track response rates based on each group. This type of data will allow you to determine further or future prioritization and/or resources. Utilize naming opportunities to recognize above described benchmarks.

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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. Like all end-of-year campaigns, planning early means you get ahead and avoid the end-of-year burnout often suffered by fundraisers at their busiest time of year.

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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. They use CSR software to streamline data collection, track progress, and ensure compliance with CSR goals and standards. How Much Does CSR Software Cost?

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

America’s Checkout Charity Champions is a benchmark study conducted by Cause Marketing Forum. It tracks 77, million-dollar-plus charity checkout campaigns. In her spare time she enjoys kayaking, yoga, hiking, traveling, and playing Scrabble. Interested in finding out more about the largest check out campaigns?

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting. Otherwise, your positive impact can’t be tracked back to profits or business improvement. How Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting Affect Profits. A custom platform will almost always include tracking and reporting tools like the ones described above.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the M+R Benchmarks 2023 report , 62% of nonprofits used text messaging for fundraising purposes in 2022. Because donors give using your online donation form, you receive the donation much faster than the processing time of the Mobile Giving Foundation. Plus, text messaging subscriber list size grew by 11%.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Starting a monthly giving program is a great use of your time because monthly donors are the lifeblood of a small nonprofit – bringing in sustainable revenue and creating a safety net of loyal supporters. . Hopefully you’re tracking your appeals well enough to know this, but if not, get out your calculator and run a couple of reports.).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

For example, a representative from the fundraising department can make sure you consider when your funders’ reporting cycles are so that you are producing outcome measurement results at a time that aligns with their requests for information about your programs. concerns, suggestions, strengths, etc.).

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Achieve

MARCH 31, 2021

Specifically, COVID-era capital campaigns will need to carefully adapt in three key areas: Timing. Capital campaigns naturally require significant investments of time and strategy. Consideration #1: Timing. First, you’ll need to carefully consider if now is the right time for your capital campaign. Let’s dive in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits. It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors. And don’t be shy about sending emails!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the past year, we’ve seen a swell of financial and human resource commitments toward DEI from all industries — but meaningful and data-backed progress is lacking. Share a framework for DEI goal setting and use an innovation mindset to start small with new initiatives, track outcomes, and to use agility to build off successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. Many feel the same as Craig Newmark. Respond here.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Meticulous donor stewardship allows you to turn one-time donors into ongoing, sometimes lifetime, supporters of your mission. You don’t want to host campaigns back-to-back or with too much time in between.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails!

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