Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. • Tracking technology (like GPS) • Translation tools. TechSoup Technologies for Good.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that your team can track to evaluate your progress toward your goal. If you don’t already have one, consider launching a recurring email newsletter that allows you to supply your subscribers with the latest news about your nonprofit, upcoming event details, and volunteer opportunities.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

The Four Elements of a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan When you walk through your nonprofit self-audit, you have four major tasks: clarifying your marketing goals, taking stock of your organizational assets, reviewing your systems, and tracking your progress. Review your recent emails. Do they grab the reader?

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Charity Digital News published this interview with Rob Leyland, Innovation Manager, about their recent efforts. How AI Is Transforming Content Creation reviews the impact that AI tools are having in writing content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

You can easily adapt these for your nonprofit’s event, and review them before, during, and after your event to gauge your success. Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Review procedures for rapid response and crisis management with key leadership. Review the upcoming month in the annual online marketing calendar. Spotlight/Profile, Interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. My answer: Yes!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

I once sat in a boardroom reviewing a forecasted profit and loss statement for an organization I was leading. As I delighted in this news, a board member to my left said, “Is this allowed?” . Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Review your members’ dues and charges, and alert them when they have overdue payments. Chapter communication.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To help you build your content plan, Neon One has created a 2024 Nonprofit Calendar that you can download as a PDF or add to your existing personal calendar. To download the calendar or learn more about nonprofit content planning, here’s a quick overview of this article: What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Do a review of your annual projections and goals, and look at what you need. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2017

This is so much more than the UN pointing at a North Star – with the emphasis on outcomes tracking baked into the SDGs framework, we have the indicators to see if we’re on track to achieving social change with a ready-made formula to measure success. Translation: outcomes measurement. Do the SDGs Apply in the United States?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Exp: news articles, user generated content, etc.) . Mistake #9: Not Tracking Results . Utilize tracking codes: Bitly is a great affordable way to create tracking links. Get creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Next up was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who gave a fantastic presentation on what metrics Momsrising uses to track their progress – not only KPIs but some of the countring metrics.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

In order to maker sure your content matches your stakeholders interests, you must track activity and make changes based on that data. One organization spent 10 hours a month maintaining an online calendar. When we reviewed their website statistics, we found that nobody ever visited that calendar. I know I would.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2015

The good news is that fundraisers now have access to enormous amounts of data and new technologies capable of understanding that data at an individual level —giving us insight into how, where, and when a donor interacts with your organization—so we can personalize messages. But is this enough?

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

A fundraising plan defines clear goals, keeps your team on track, provides accountability, and ultimately helps you raise more for your cause. Answer these questions and review the data from past campaigns to understand where your organization currently stands and how you can build on past performance. Local news/radio.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

In a world where billions of people spend hours each day scrolling through their news feeds, social media is ripe for cultivating generosity. To pinpoint your target donor audience, consider the following strategies: Analyze Existing Donor Data: Start by reviewing the data you already have. Maria’s content calendar template.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This can be as simple including something like this in their packet: A board attendance tracking spreadsheet. A spreadsheet that tracks the board’s agreed upon give and get policy. A board calendar with all board meetings, trainings, conferences, fundraising events , and program volunteer opportunities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We have our clients use a calendar so they can color code their Asks, Warm Touches, and Communications to make sure donors aren’t being overasked. Pitch a story to your local news. Spend a little time reviewing the kinds of stories your local media covers so you know what story to pitch them. Get organized for success.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Holiday celebrations and time spent with family and friends help us reconnect to the things that matter most and prepare to start fresh for the new year ahead. Review your overall annual goal. Review your overall annual goal. Identify your audience.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

You’ll use these assets to build out a messaging calendar across your various digital media channels in a way that makes sense for your audience. . Track the success of your story. Save the Children’s story is spread across its website in multiple areas, including: News clips. Review this resource to learn more.

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Storytelling Digital Marketing Guide 98

Givinga

APRIL 2, 2019

Researching and vetting charities, administering matching gift programs, tracking activity, and calculating impact can take up a significant portion of your staff’s time. The good news is that many time-consuming processes are now easy to simplify or automate with the right software.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

The good news is, you’re not alone…and we can help. Let’s take a moment to review what that acronym stands for before we move on to the juicy stuff. Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Recruit new sponsors for our Spring Golf Tournament. Create a grant calendar.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Here are five thoughts and lessons to consider: Escape the linear calendar.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You run a report, you run a query, and you’re immediately second-guessing, or you want to start let’s say a new donor welcome series, and you don’t have a lot of confidence that your data is actually going to be able to serve up just new donors. Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe get interrupted or you just want to review the awesome content you’re about to hear, don’t worry. million organization, $900,000 of that is philanthropy, and you’re at the end of your calendar year and so far you’re at about $790,000. And you track the results.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Highly visual platform Storytelling through images and videos Instagram Stories Visual consistency Limited clickable links Challenges in driving traffic outside Instagram Algorithm changes You can choose the right channels by reviewing your donor personas. This is where the content calendar comes in.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Deceased Suppression: An organization will lose 2–3% of its house file each calendar year on average due to constituent deaths. Going beyond simple name and address matching logic, persistent key processing will review past addresses, common nicknames, and even catch typos to help distinguish unique records from duplicates.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. And how will you track participation? Maybe you read about them on the news or hear about them on NPR whatever you listen to. Or maybe you’re new to this, and you’ve never actually looked for grants at all. .

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

But that's kind of old news in Common Ground. Click "Review" and you're taken to a screen to finalize the merge. What used to be hours and hours and hours and hours of time on our office manager's part of double entry and reconciling is down to just entry in Common Ground, imports into QuickBooks and then batching deposits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, don’t worry, we will get all that in your hands later on today. So good news. And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. Steven is amazing. Next slide. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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