Nimble AMS

MARCH 8, 2023

Read our blog for several helpful tips to get started. If you want to offer real insights for your organization, look for an AMS that offers user-friendly reports and dashboards. Leveraging dashboards lets you measure key performance indicators (KPIs,) helping your association track its progress and take control of its future.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report.

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Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review three ways your fundraising software can help your nonprofit maintain compliance: Activity data Donation tracking Volunteer tools Fundraising events of all types require careful data tracking, but donations made at an auction are especially complex to manage and record.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

However, a clearly defined scope is critical to keeping a project on track throughout its life cycle. Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. Leave space in your list to track when each deliverable was completed. out of scope).

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its own challenges: extensive reporting mandates, a list of requirements to qualify for funding, and the possibility of mission creep to meet those requirements. Adopt a robust fund accounting system.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

EGA has a long-standing history that includes more than 10 years of data collaboration with Candid, to support their Tracking the Field (TTF) research program. EGA found only 21% of environmental grantees who reported have leadership that identifies as BIPOC—compared to 25% for nonprofits across all issue areas.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Some associations have saved hundreds of hours on report creation per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

I’m on a mission this year, with the publication of the book, to continue to evangelize about nonprofits should all become data nerds and embrace the joy of measurement. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization. The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming. You also don’t want to create an undue burden on your grantees for extensive reporting.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. How to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy There are several ways to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy. Your branding should be able to evolve as your organization grows and changes. Be open to making changes to your branding as needed.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Instead share the largest amount of your budget on SEO and content marketing (blog posts and fresh website content). You should have monthly reporting for ongoing stats that lead direction, but a Strategic Marketing Plan will help you create small manageable goals that correspond to an overall goal (more customers).

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We hope you like acronyms, because Google is making some big changes — and that means nonprofits will need to understand some important technical details in order to effectively reach, track, and mobilize supporters. GA4 has been built to provide cross-platform data, so user activity can be tracked across web and app access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. Regular Content Editorial Meetings: At the Case Foundation, Jenna Sauber reported that they have editorial meetings every two weeks to plot out content in detail. The work is tracked in a shared spreadsheet and accompanying meeting notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. The theme was “ 30 Ways for 30 Days “ Dan says, “We measured that through each action and each was track-able. Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel.

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Feeds Social Media Measure Summary 102

Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. appeared first on Candid Blog. Syrian refugee crisis. Be flexible.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Grant management is the comprehensive process of overseeing all activities related to grants: from identifying recipients, to awarding funds, to reporting on outcomes all while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. They manage the disbursement of funds and monitor the financial aspects of grantee reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Know What Success Is. They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

“Is measuring data about proving it or improving it?” Advice for Nonprofits To Get Started with Measurement. 2 What is the metric to track. “If you’re just starting with measurement, start with an easy win.” ” – @ kanter Build up your measurement muscles, y’all!

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Measure your outcomes and tell your story. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Augment your reporting with data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

Philanthropic responses to the Turkey and Syria earthquakes Candid has been tracking philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake and reporting on major giving by public corporations and foundations. The post Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake appeared first on Candid Blog. million ($1.6

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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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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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. Try using your audience personas you developed as guidelines for what different demographics you want to track and report on.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Heeding our own advice, we have been helping a number of clients to get up and running with new GA4 properties, the tags they’ll need to deploy the GA4 code through Google Tag Manager or walking them through the steps of adding the GA4 directly to their website’s pages (not a method we would typically recommend, but that’s a whole other blog post!).

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Analytics Google Story Metrics 52

Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can your nonprofit even measure its return on investments (ROI)? Putting together an ROI report can be time consuming, but can also lead to great data and help you find ways to trim costs without shirking quality. And employees become more motivated when they can visually see the results of their efforts or measure their performance.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. The quality of an employee’s work experience has three times the impact on their overall wellbeing as the number of hours they work ,” report the authors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

" It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact. In the impact investing model, when we give to a cause, we should see specific and measurable returns in the form of social change. 3 Reasons You're About to Be As Excited About Outcomes Measurement As I Am. How did I get here?

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Even without a complete data set (which is practically unattainable), you can still do things like send renewals, get event registrations, create membership reports and raise funds for your foundation. Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data. Set a baseline and keep track of the progress you are making. Probably not.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

Luckily, nonprofit organizations can track website activity to make those essential changes by viewing user data through the use of Google Analytics 4. This blog post will discuss what Google Analytics 4 is, why nonprofits should use Google Analytics 4, and how to get started with Google Analytics 4.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Track and share fundraising progress data to help team members hold each other accountable to meet their individual goals. Make sure each team tracks its fundraising progress online so supporters can quickly check in to see where the fundraiser stands. Include data tracking and reporting features. Have minimal costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Among other changes, it requires encouraging employers to have more bike friendly policies.

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