sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They’ll work together to ensure the system is configured to automate board reporting and UDS data so that you have more free time for other priorities. The most important document to have on hand is a trial balance report—with 36 months of history—from your legacy system. Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Going Beyond Basic Metrics Learning analytics goes beyond basic metrics to offer you a deeper understanding of course performance and learner engagement. Tracking Long-Term Impact True success for your learning programs can be found by evaluating their long-term impact.

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Analytics Education Program Impact 169

sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. They don’t come with any direction or reporting requirements.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

For those of you who have read Social Media for Social Good and have taken my webinar on how to launch a social and mobile media strategy for your nonprofi t, you know that the core of the strategy that I advocate for is tracking and proving your success. That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

For those of you who have read Social Media for Social Good and have taken my webinar on how to launch a social and mobile media strategy for your nonprofi t, you know that the core of the strategy that I advocate for is tracking and proving your success. That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why.

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Track Mobile Media Fundraising 186

Care2

JANUARY 7, 2013

Here’s some great content metrics that strategist Jay Baer highlighted on his blog (thanks for the recommendation Beth Kanter ) which nonprofits can utilize. Do the same articles, blog posts, fact sheets, generate the most traffic every month? How are people consuming your content? What video’s get the most views?

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Metrics Content Track Analytics 71

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. Establishing regular meetings or processes for metrics review helps position us to learn from the data we’re collecting and be better positioned to identify opportunities to improve.

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DonorPerfect

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with clean, streamlined donor records that record donations from your online forms and update automatically, an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually.

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Tips Fundraising Metrics Nonprofit 98

Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Read our blog to learn more about online communities and discover how your association can use one to boost member connections and loyalty. Community Brands research found members who have used an online community report higher loyalty metrics. Members also report a strong sense of community (52%) versus those who don’t (20%).

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Community Platform Benefit Online 116

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. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs.

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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. What is needed to achieve it?

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

However, a clearly defined scope is critical to keeping a project on track throughout its life cycle. Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. out of scope).

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Project Fund Software Help 89

Neon CRM

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogging can be a unique and powerful way for nonprofit organizations to connect with their audience. However, with so many blogs out there (let alone all the other media your audiences see every day), it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd. But those basics only set the foundation of your blog.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. But they often come with many strings attached—such as detailed reporting requirements. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. This level of relationship building does not happen by sitting in an office filling out reports, or by dutifully answering the deluge of internal email we all receive.

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Metrics Fundraising Evaluation Measure 68

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Members report having to work doubly and triply hard to shore up their credibility. One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics. Educate your members to be discerning consumers of information: webinars, blog posts, podcasts. Track trends in your industry.

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Associations Industry Government Education 130

M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Apple Mail Privacy Protection works by pre-loading email content — including open tracking pixels. Reminder, email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in email content. You’ll see them go by different names, but for the sake of this blog I’m going to call them: Human opens — what “opens” were before this change rolled out.

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Mail Spam Rate email 108

M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. In SparkPost’s 2021 Benchmark report, almost 40% of all opens and clicks came from an Apple Mail app client (25.7% The new feature helps users prevent senders from knowing when they open an email.” on iPhone, 9.6% on desktop, and 2.8%

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Rate email Open Change 122

Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Admins and Developers will be particularly interested in the many updates to Einstein Search, inline editing from reports now being generally released, and even more functionality added to Flow Builder. For those of you who have set up dynamic dashboards to track your organization’s KPIs, you have cause for celebration with this new feature!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. One point that he keeps making over and over: Metrics must have meaning or else they’re just numbers. The information is also reported with a link to organizational results.

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Metrics Social Media Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Funders don’t always track their GOS grants Survey respondents expressed difficulty in estimating the dollar amount for their general operating grants. Others were unable to provide even an estimate since they don’t track GOS grants. Several foundations reported that the COVID-19 pandemic inspired more general operating grants in 2021.

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Foundation Support Learning Grant 78

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

sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2024

Instead of assigning a random percentage to your programs, ask your employees to start tracking how they spend their time so that the organization can make more accurate allocations. Talking about appropriate metrics with your team could help your organization shed the fear-based mentality and create a culture of transparency.

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Build Strategy Fund ROI 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” Avinash Kaushik has a name for trying to report too many things: data puking. What is the one metric that matters for your organization?

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Metrics Measure Analytics Method 101

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Freewill’s 2023 Planned Giving Report found that 15% of their users who created estate plans will arrange a planned gift in their will, even if their estate is worth less than $350,000. This allows your organization to generate detailed reports of the giving pipeline or track multiple beneficiaries and relationships for a planned gift.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Reporting and metrics are important sources of information for nonprofits and the foundations that support them, by making data available about who is benefiting from their work in the social sector. Tags: Reporting Running Your Organization Web 2.0

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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. Set a baseline and keep track of the progress you are making. Probably not. You can even start with data analytics.

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Data Analytics Associations Registration 169

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Metrics Facebook Data Measure 96

NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

[Editor's note: this is cross-posted from the M+R Research Labs blog ] By Ezra Billinkoff, M +R Wow! That’s why we included a Glossary at the end of the report – download the report and check it out! Many of the metrics in our report require no calculations. Once again, you’ve amazed us!

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Metrics Facebook Question Benchmark 64

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Tracking over a full 12 months is a good timeframe since certain periods of the year have increased or decreased fundraising (org-specific annual events, the summer slowdown, Giving Season, etc.).

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Strategy Tips Nonprofit Conservancy 110

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Donor Management: All donation platforms should provide reports and real-time tracking information for every gift, including recurring donations. Impact reporting derived from this data also allows you to show donors how their contributions make a difference over time. first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Track Your Demographics. Go Custom with Report and Dashboards.

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Analytics Google Digital Marketing 100

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

Donor Retention Donor retention as a metric has gained traction since 2001 when Adrian Sargeant published the first academic research on the financial impact of increased donor retention. Many organizations use disparate systems, CRM, online giving, volunteer management, email marketing, wealth screening, website tracking, the list goes on.

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Challenge Retention Nonprofit Tennessee 98

Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

How to Inspire, Excite and Direct Your Board to Success (E-BOOK) – The Board Engagement Playbook: 7 Tenets for Success (BLOG) – Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting ​ Thanks for stopping by to read our picks for top nonprofit news this month!

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