Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? Now you’re all set to go live.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

AI can completely change how nonprofits engage donors and prepare for fundraising appeals. These algorithms are continually refined over time as more data is generated for analysis. The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics. How Nonprofits Use AI.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. As you proceed, you’ll have concrete methods for measuring the efficacy of your changes.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Nonprofit budgets are often tight, and each of your campaigns should aim to hit as high a return on investment (ROI) as possible. To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). ROI = (Output / Input) X 100.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That’s why we put together a list of the five essential metrics you need to know, as a fundraiser, to achieve higher retention rates. Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. Donor Level Moves.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to acquisition, we all know that metrics matter. However, most nonprofits don’t know which metrics to look at —or what to do with that information once they have it. . Taking time to read spreadsheets or reports full of data can be time consuming and overwhelming. I recommend looking at three key metrics. .

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2011

Being new to this, we also had to determine how to measure the return on investment (ROI) of our ad buys, to help guide our efforts in the future. We've already written a step-by-step guide on how to use Google's URL builder , but it's pretty easy: The key is to remain consistent so you can find the data in Google Analytics.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Data collection- Any online event allows event marketers and event producers to go above and beyond simple attendance metrics. These metrics can work as lead generation tools or increase sales and marketing efforts post-event. . 4 Ideas for Hybrid Events. 4) Lean Into Gamification Like GPJ Experience Marketing Suggests.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ease of use : The best dashboards are easy to use, even for those who don’t have a lot of experience with data. Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s a strategy that I have been using, testing, and adapting since @NonprofitOrgs first launched on Myspace in 2006 and now there’s an ever-increasing flow of data being released that proves that social and mobile media are, in fact, powerful fundraising tools. Other Metrics. It’s that simple.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react? With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Finding the ROI. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. But we have reached an inflection point.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. And analyzing this data for meaningful takeaways is something many organizations haven’t even considered at this point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called " The New Focus Group: The Collective " where he urges companies using social media to make the last word in ROI insight, not investment. My point was that the qualitative insights are just as important to hard data points. The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Effective data management is key to understanding your constituency and building better fundraising and engagement strategies. In this guide, we’ll share some of our expertise surrounding the topic of nonprofit data analytics through the following points: Overview of Nonprofit Data Analytics. 4 Types of Data Analytics.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. This information can give you a clearer picture of how your fundraising efforts have grown or changed over the years. When your solutions are aligned, you can create a streamlined data entry process and seamlessly leverage data across platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With rapidly changing technology and the need to be nimble in our approach to donors, leveraging the data in your nonprofit donor database is more important than ever before. However, using data to complement those stories can communicate to savvy donors the impact of their investment in the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Topic : Strong Connections: Linking Strategy, Goals and Metrics. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data to show your impact. Topic : Social Media ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

Apple’s latest privacy updates will affect data sources commonly used by mission-driven organizations. Let’s explore how your organization can adapt to the changes. One of the most common implications of Apple’s change is a reduction in Google Analytics’ ability to report on new and returning visitors.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react? With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. . "Over … But that was then and this is now.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

Change the metrics of success. Using for-profit metrics such as ROI (return on investment) and KPI (key performance indicators) can be beneficial for a nonprofit, but the sector must educate donors, boards and the public on other meaningful indicators of success. Her story was featured in ASU Now last spring.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Determine whether external factors like economic changes or global events may have an impact on your major giving strategy. Consider your mid-level donors who haven’t changed their giving level in some time. Here are five of the most helpful options: CRM Your CRM is your nonprofit’s hub for supporter data.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth. Prior to the Academy, DWD was "keeping the lights on" as far as technology adoption and reactive in its approach. "We

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

By requiring registration and ticketing through your event management platform, and using this same system to host the streaming, your metrics will all be in one place. . Keep yourself open to changes. Hybrid events can: Improve ROI: Virtual access can be sold for a fraction of the in-person ticket price allowing more people to attend.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react? With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I believe this is because it is so difficult to measure behavior change. Data Analysis. What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? How do you analyze your social media data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.” It can also make using data fun ! Here’s 5 infographics that will help you get up to speed about using visualization processes to generate insights from data. 1: What is an infographic? Source: Rickmann's Posterous.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Few roles have changed more dramatically since the pandemic than that of the event marketer. With events shifting from in-person to virtual and now to hybrid formats, the way attendees experience and interact with event content has also changed. . The Changing Role of the Event Marketer. But in early 2020, everything changed. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

What's the roi? I wonder if Davenport's opinion has changed. See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits? Are you simply wasting your time? Are you, gasp, "not getting anything done"?

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

This practice and the particular application has changed the way small market teams compete in the major leagues and thus has made this recent postseason a possibility for my preferred team. When most people think about reporting in the Learning Industry, they think about ROI justification. Data and Data Quality Disclaimer.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Corporate responsibility software is one option businesses have to change that. With donation tracking and impact reporting, businesses can collect and analyze data on their philanthropic impact, projecting their results into the market. But not every platform will make an impact. Resource: ¹ [link]. ² [link].

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