Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Maybe a friend shared the link with them, or they found your charity by Googling a topic you’re campaigning about. Examples: facebook, google, instagram, blog, website, qr-code. Rule: medium-name.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Types of advertisements, topics, and content they respond to.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cover a variety of topics. The episodic format of podcasts allows you to cover a variety of topics, whether that’s going in-depth on a topic over multiple installments or covering a few topics in each episode. Cover a variety of topics so your audience always has a reason to tune in for the next installment.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Why else would phishing, hacking, and cybersecurity be such hot topics right now? Analyzed data—usually in the form of charts and dashboards—provides a way for you to measure your organization’s activity against past output or industry standards: it allows you to determine growth and success, or lack thereof. Why pay attention to data?

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Qgiv

APRIL 19, 2022

These awards cover a range of topics, including top fundraising software, quality of customer support, ease of implementation, and ease of use. Meanwhile, placement in Software Advice’s Front Runners Report is based on user reviews that measure a product’s usability and customer satisfaction. Request a Demo. Read the Press Release.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Paired with your experience and judgment, your decisions can be data informed or data guided using less specific data measurements. Dive deeper into this topic by watching the on-demand webinar. Consider your average spending year over year or the trend in your retention over a period of time.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. Read more about preparing your association’s data for AI in this recent blog. It should also involve an emphasis on data privacy and ethics.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative. 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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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In the Culture of Innovation eBook, our industry experts discussed the topic from various angles – helping us determine 8 steps you can take to start creating your innovation culture. You will be able to set goals and measure outcomes more effectively, propelling your nonprofit towards impactful innovation. Are you based in Canada?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

My much-loved client, Community TechKnowledge , recently asked me to serve as the curator of their new guest blog. Since 2005, I've been murmuring that the future of blogging is not with individual blogs like mine, but with well-designed web sites that feature clusters of blogs by diverse authors who are focused on a coherent mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Micro-Influencers are thought leaders in a specific niche, write books and blogs, deliver keynotes, create original content, and are consistently doing research. The Engage Blog has a different way to describe nonprofit influencers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we began sharing our loneliness research with clients and were astonished by how large the appetite was for this topic. The pandemic had finally pulled back the curtain on the concealed topic of loneliness. That’s why we created the first tool to effectively assess the strength of relationships among a team.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

The measurements of success for our experiment included:* Engagement (e.g., In addition to posting a total of 52 unique videos, featuring six staff members as ‘talent,’ our three measures for success had these outcomes: Engagement : On Instagram, we saw a 92% increase; TikTok had a 72% increase when compared to static Instagram posts.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

As we experience an ongoing shift toward equity-centered grantmaking, some foundations are seeking demographic data on their grantees and nonprofit communities to track, measure, and make informed decisions about the diversity within their grantmaking portfolios. The post How to be efficiently trendy appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 18, 2011

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Last week, I shared these 20 juicy blogging tips during a talk at the Breakfast Blogging Club of the East Bay. What does your blogging voice sound like? Why are you blogging?

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Here are a few use cases we’ve seen (and used ourselves): Brainstorming content topics. The good news is that many tools are incredibly user-friendly, and experimentation can be one of the best ways to learn what works for you. Ask a generative AI model to act as your target audience (giving it as much anonymized context as possible).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Measure affinity in real-time. To speed up the idea generation process, writers can enter their topic and content format to receive an initial outline. Generate topic ideas. Chatbot AIs are helpful for producing topic ideas for blog articles, presentations, videos, and other long-form content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Stay tuned for a blog post about it. Session topics include: Supporting Effectiveness sessions explore how grantmakers can improve practices to build grantee capacity and better support nonprofit sustainability. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success. Rafael Lopez, Associate Director, The Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets. Candid Learning also hosts live trainings on topics such as corporate giving and starting nonprofits. Meanwhile, Candid had one for free. . Candid.org .

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It’s a measure of the way an organization impacts the community it’s a part of. They also provide nonprofits with a variety of educational resources: webinars , fundraising guides , blogs , community groups , and the Apex: Greater Giving User Conference. appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this blog, we will share the key elements of a typical project proposal and best practices for how to approach drafting each section to help you secure the grant you seek. Goals are typically broad, general statements of need, while objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timebound ( S.M.A.R.T. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Last week, I came across this excellent deck and blog post from the Knight Foundation’s VP of Strategy and Assessment, Mayur H. Measurement'

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. This allowed us to understand patterns across organizations when it comes to the topics their mission statement addresses. For our first project,?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

The authors add that, “In truth, you’re unlikely to measure the change you’re leading in days. Her TED talk on the topic of building trust has had over six million views. Clear strategy and a culture of speed are keys to unlocking rapid, enduring change. What we don’t want you to do is take years.” They encourage readers to be patient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). the multidirectional communication, that most museums set up blogs to encourage and explore. These captured the ???interactivity???,

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics. Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. But what to measure? Blog post. Date : January 19th, 2010. Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

” When Alison Carlman , unmarketing manager for Global Giving, shared her social media measurement spreadsheet during a peer learning session I’m facilitating for Packard Foundation grantees based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I couldn’t help but think, “Now That’s A Spreadsheet!”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we began sharing our loneliness research with clients and were astonished by how large the appetite was for this topic. The pandemic had finally pulled back the curtain on the concealed topic of loneliness. That’s why we created the first tool to effectively assess the strength of relationships among a team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

I’m really curious about how networked nonprofits can use measurement and make decisions using data to get more impact from networked approaches. I want to hear about your successes and challenges in making your networked nonprofit more effective using measurement and data to make decisions about effective use of emerging media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Been thinking a lot about of the work processes around creating content and measuring its against outcomes this week. One idea that came up in my post earlier this week about creating and measuring content , was the concept of an idea dashboard. This post takes it a bit deeper. Quick outlines of ideas w/ useful curated link.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2023

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we began sharing our loneliness research with clients and were astonished by how large the appetite was for this topic. The pandemic had finally pulled back the curtain on the concealed topic of loneliness. That’s why we created the first tool to effectively assess the strength of relationships among a team.

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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. You get my point; before we even start to layer on information from the wider sector or filters to subdivide topics and categories, we have A LOT of information to work with.

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