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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Database Track Donor Management 52

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. So what happened to open rates? Pre-MPP, we all agreed that open rate generally reflected the rate at which people were interacting with an email.

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Mail Spam Rate email 108

Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success. Since his activity is newer and more consistent, his engagement score is rated higher than Lynne’s. Let’s get started!

Analytics 169

Analytics Associations Model Metrics 169

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 234

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. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 80

Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

According to the latest Community Brands research, 52% of association professionals use an online member community but only 14% rate their use of the platform as excellent. Read our blog to learn more about online communities and discover how your association can use one to boost member connections and loyalty.

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Community Platform Benefit Online 116

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

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.

Grant 91

Grant Process Management Tips 91

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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South Dakota Program Alaska Build 59

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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Effective Demographics Philanthropy United States 104

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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Marketing Analysis ROI Picture 246

Candid

MARCH 21, 2024

At first glance, it would be easy to put a gloomy headline on the Council on Foundations ’ most recent CF Insights field survey tracking trends in community foundations’ 2022 asset growth, giving, and the activity of donor-advised funds (DAFs). About half of all respondents reported some level of year-over-year decrease in gifts received.

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Foundation Community Time Montana 52

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate. Members report having to work doubly and triply hard to shore up their credibility. 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

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. Do you analyze it, report it, or share it with your stakeholders? Limit mid-cycle reporting to a phone call with the program manager.

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Application Leadership Grant Philanthropy 88

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. Data integration allows nonprofit healthcare organizations to: Exchange data at a faster rate. Standardize data formats to ensure consistency.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tip: Using the Giving Analysis for Appeals report in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a great first step to analyzing your historical data. If you are expecting an 8% response rate from your donors, that means the segment needs to include at least 1,250 constituents. Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.)

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Data Giving Work Test 91

TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Last week, we discussed the importance of paying attention to and reporting on your nonprofit’s website analytics. Understanding what pages on your website are most trafficked is key to increasing conversion rates, and knowing what posts on your blogs are getting the most page views helps your nonprofit further focus its content.

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Analytics Twitter Nonprofit Statistics 177

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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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

Many organizations use disparate systems, CRM, online giving, volunteer management, email marketing, wealth screening, website tracking, the list goes on. If those systems don’t communicate, or place data into the same data warehouse, your organization can’t track donor/constituent engagement and behavior.

Challenge 98

Challenge Retention Nonprofit Tennessee 98

NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

> Download the 2013 NTEN Community Survey Report In July 2013, we circulated the online survey link to the NTEN Community via direct email (sent to 38,354 contacts) and announcements in our community channels, including our blog, NTEN Discuss list, our Facebook page, our Twitter network, and our LinkedIn group.

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Survey NTEN Report Community 88

NTEN

JULY 13, 2011

> Download the 2011 NTEN Community Survey Report. In May of 2011 we circulated the link to the online survey to the NTEN Community via direct email and announcements in our community channels, including our blog, NTEN Discuss email list, our Facebook page, and our Twitter network. We received responses from 1,070 individuals.

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Survey NTEN Report Community 93

M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Tune up your tracking in advance of key moments. If you’re just getting up and running with ads, check on your Meta Ads Manager Account , a tool to run and report on ads for Facebook and Instagram. For ads tracking and more, we highly recommend Google Analytics. For ads tracking and more, we highly recommend Google Analytics.

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Fundraising America United States Track 84

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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Chart gMail Singapore Vermont 101

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Increases Retention Rates and Donor Life Cycle With each recurring donation, your organization may send thank-you notes with suggestions to stay engaged beyond financial support. Inspiring donors to take action in their community and advance your mission ultimately increases donor satisfaction and improves retention rate and donor life cycle.

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Donation Blackbaud Retention Gift 52

sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

Lost receipts, multiple tracking spreadsheets, and unchecked spending, oh my! These hurdles are a few of the challenges facing school business offices and nonprofit organizations doing their best to evaluate and keep track of employee purchases day-to-day. Is this sounding like your month-end scramble?

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Nonprofit Track Doc Evaluation 72

TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

Try using your audience personas you developed as guidelines for what different demographics you want to track and report on. If you haven’t been using the trackbacks page, this might be a good page for you to start reporting on. Track backs, located under the social tab, shows you who has been linking back to your website.

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Analytics Statistics Google Demographics 223

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

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000.

Software 84

Software Free Tools Adobe 84

Media Cause

JUNE 21, 2022

and a ton of new features that are going to come with it—for example, the ability to unlock your phone using your Apple Watch, new emojis, Siri enhancements and, the subject of this blog, privacy enhancements. . they had the ability to allow or prohibit tracking from apps. Keep your tracking on track . iCloud + Privacy

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Track Google API email 52

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.” Sure, many of us look at the basics—number of views, general actions taken, pass along rates etc.—but

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Analytics Google Digital Marketing 100

Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Then, they could pull a report showing the percentage of donors and other funders who are a great match and correlate that with the amount of income produced. Has your donor retention rate increased, decreased, or remained flat? Has your donor retention rate increased, decreased, or remained flat?

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Measure Business Retention Profile 52

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!).

Analytics 52

Analytics Google Story Metrics 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 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. Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Keep the body of your email under 200 words and link to blog posts or videos for more information. For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. Responses to website behavior.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 67

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Member management: Track user data, including dues requirements and membership status, and view it on a centralized dashboard. Member portals: Allow members to manage their membership online, track certificates, event registrations and more. Data Analytics and Reporting Tools. An AMS might include the following.

Associations 141

Associations Professional Software Tools 141

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Twitter Cards allow website developers to clarify how website and blog content should appear in tweets. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Twitter Practice Social Media Nonprofit 355

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Leave Them Wanting More Keep the body of your email under 200 words and link to blog posts or videos for more information. For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. Responses to website behavior.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 74