Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Miriam’s Kitchen is using VolunteerHub to recruit volunteers, engage corporate partners, and positively impact its bottom-line while increasing impact through the software’s integration with Salesforce. The organization, focused on impact , serves an average of 300 fresh meals per day (70,000 annually).

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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. We suggest using: Business Impact – what is the return on investment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation ‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. I could not have written this book alone, especially as a reformed measurement phobic.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

(If you missed that post, check it out for case studies, webinars, and other resources that might help.) The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

You can also use tools to target specific audiences for your different campaigns, helping you ensure your reach the people most likely to support your cause. When creating your social media strategy, research what tools can help you expand on your goals to make the maximum impact you can. Why should nonprofits use social media?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Organisations across the world are responding to the devastating pandemic by using everything at their disposal to make lasting change in their communities, and Giving Tuesday offers a significant fundraising opportunity for the sector to recruit new supporters and volunteers. Last year , in the U.K. Set Achievable Goals. Get Planning Now.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. billion in assets and 360,000 members, so have requests for financial support.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

Your volunteer center relies on the support of volunteers and community partners to reach goals and obtain its mission. To date, VolunteerHub has supported over 2.5 The steps you take to engage volunteers have the potential to positively or negatively impact retention rates. Trusted Implementation Process and Support.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Social sustainability is one of the three interconnected dimensions of sustainability recognized by the United Nations, which they describe as being “ about identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people. It’s a measure of the way an organization impacts the community it’s a part of.

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Story Social Storytelling Case Study 98

Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

City Health Dashboard , a project of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health, supported by Forum One, is a model for making their rich data accessible to all of their audiences and at data-driven storytelling. Communicate Impact with Stories. Develop a strategy for data storytelling. Understand your capacity.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. This showed him that ad campaigns should spotlight the product itself – the emotional impact it provides.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. It’s important to note that every nonprofit’s data warehousing needs and use cases will vary depending on everything from their cause to supporter base size to strategic goals and more. Monitor program impact.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. Nonprofit storytelling refers to narratives an organization shares (often called “impact stories”) as a way to illustrate its mission and connect with supporters on a personal, emotional level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'm most curious to see how Pepsi will demonstrate leadership in social marketing and of course the longer term result - social impact. Jeremiah Owyang has shared his initial analysis of Pepsi's Contest, summarizing the opportunity, risks, strengths, weaknesses, metrics, and impact. Overall impact towards helping communities.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Make a convincing case for why your organization deserves funding and how you will use it effectively. Is there case study you can point to? Include financial information that makes sense for the foundation or foundation program in question – never send financials that are not requested.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 21, 2023

If you want to make a significant impact, volunteer engagement and management strategy should be at the top of your list, especially if volunteers play a vital role in helping your organization achieve its mission. Believe it or not, only 55% of nonprofits are actively measuring volunteer impact. What is your budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Whether it’s how we raise our children, communicate in love and partnerships, support causes, or establish friendships and trust, Granger pinpoints the best ways to seize digital opportunities to make our lives better. It is filled with practical tips and lots of stories and useful for all nonprofit professionals.

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Network Data Chart Case Study 134

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail fundraising, sometimes called direct mail solicitation or direct marketing, is the process of mailing requests for support to existing and prospective donors. Direct mail gives your supporters a physical object to connect them to your organization, making it a highly personal way to reach out.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. In this post, we will explore some of the major steps to creating effective community health initiatives, and share one case study.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What kinds of use cases are there? Johnson Center provides insights into the impacts this scale of data is making, and the challenges it is creating. Below is an example that is representative of many of the grants lists we receive from the IRS: A Case Study: Helping Your 990 Match Your Story. In 2017, Martha S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact? Another wished that funders would “include funding for proper assessment tools to systematically capture and analyze data and other pertinent information.”.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. What Does It Look Like to Support Women of Color to Lead? General Operating Support and Relinquishing the Illusion of Control. Nonprofit Leadership at a Crossroads.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hunger Web America Case Study 120

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. Case Studies. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Think carefully about the cost of your fundraising activities and the long-term impact your nonprofit potentially has on your community. Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Measure all fundraising metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Best of all, there’s nothing like peer to peer support in this effort to keep inspired. Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS. This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us. One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. While I was working “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with KD Paine several people said I had to read Mario Morino’s Leap of Reason which is about how nonprofits can manage to outcomes. ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Metrics Measure Analytics Method 101

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Just like Idealware, we're interested at TechSoup in the tools of the trade to make it possible to track the right data, so that reporting on impact is accurate and defensible. The Ever Elusive Impact Measurements.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

Over the last year, we’ve done our best to extol the benefits of skills-based volunteerism to npEngage readers , offering best practices for and case studies on pro bono service. Leveraging a volunteer’s talents and skills set, in addition to their time, can exponentially increase positive impact for your organization.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2019

Many of the companies we work with at Common Impact host a “day of service” as a way to give back to their local communities. Common Impact partner Charles Schwab has long recognized the benefits of skilled volunteerism and offers an annual opportunity through their Pro Bono Challenge. communities. The results?

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Skills Volunteer Service Measure 33

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Embrace storytelling.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Patton’s ideas and the methods of developmental evaluation are gaining more attention and practice because social change projects are transcending from a primary focus on program impact to systems impact and make use of networks as a key strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Register here.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Groupon Case Study: Jolkona’s Groupon Experiment | Community Organizer 2.0 – Check out this great interview by Debra Askanase with Laura Kimball, discussing their experiment using Groupon! Really changes the impact of those Twitter numbers! Really changes the impact of those Twitter numbers! "Social

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