Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results.

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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. You’ll want your IT team to be aware of the project so they can review any data security requirements or integrations that need to be established, for example.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

What we learned by listening to grassroots organizations The Honnold Foundation works in partnership with marginalized communities around the world to expand equitable access to solar energy and develop locally relevant solutions to climate change. If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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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. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Metrics Measure Analytics Method 101

Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. To ensure your goals clearly define what you’re trying to accomplish, consider using the SMART approach to goal setting: Make sure each goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Regularly review metrics to find opportunities for improvement?? . Non-members .

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. Once you decide on the channels that you’ll focus on, it’s time to review your posting frequency. 10) Measure success. Once you start using your content calendar, you will need to measure the effectiveness of your posts.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan.

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

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. Review your donor demographics. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Review your donor demographics.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. In fact, a study by Salesforce found the number one most valuable metric of success for service organizations is customer satisfaction. How are you measuring if you’re meeting or exceeding them?

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Analytics Digital Tools Measure 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Over the past 5 years since I’ve been analyzing metrics and my content , I have a good list of the topics that do well.

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

They have to do all this while regularly drafting and submitting grant requests from funders who have different and changing priorities. How closely should they track those changes? Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

In this guide, we’ll review how you can harness the power of digital marketing to promote your membership-based organization. Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly.

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Organization Online Influence Metrics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He gave a brief reflection with how is strategic consulting to nonprofits practice has changed over the many decades he has been in service to the field. ”It used to be that nonprofits developed five-year plans – we used to refer to as “The Stalin Approach.” How will they measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What is your process for reviewing and improving your campaigns?

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the full post below. Just when you think you have it all figured out, a new button appears or you can’t find the same options you had before—there’s always something changing!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Taking proactive measures. Reset : Resetting your strategy when the situation changes. Reset, or how to change, is the heart of SRT. What is success?

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2021

Let’s break down how measurement planning and an agile approach to managing and assessing your content allows you to optimize and track the effectiveness of your content strategy. Why you need a measurement plan. Keeping track of those metrics, and making sure they are meaningful , can be difficult. Handling dynamic targets.

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Content Effective Strategy Measure 47

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

To ensure that NTEN continues to grow in our equitable operations, part of our process is to annually review efforts made to the practices outlined in our equity commitment and identify where we can push forward or expand on those efforts in the coming year. 2021 review highlights. 2021 review highlights. 2021 review highlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change.

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 97

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

You still have to review and edit what ChatGPT has created, but it will save you loads of time on the initial draft. Use a Human For Review Even though ChatGPT can create natural-sounding emails, you should still review everything that it generates before sending it out to your community.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some of these factors are environmental and out of your control: the economy, politics, changes in leadership, and pandemics. Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Porter Novelli’s latest research on business and social justice shows that consumers, employees and other stakeholders want companies to acknowledge their role in systemic injustices and actively change the system. 3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance.

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Government Social Blackbaud Companies 96

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success. You can easily adapt these for your nonprofit’s event, and review them before, during, and after your event to gauge your success. “ Set specific goals for your event that can easily be measured and attained within the scope of your event.

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Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Let’s review the key steps of finding major donor prospects, building relationships, and retaining their support for the long term: 1. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits?

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 99

Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

AI can completely change how nonprofits engage donors and prepare for fundraising appeals. This quick guide will review the essentials. Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. How AI for Nonprofits Works.

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Course Fundraising Analysis Mail 130

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Review previous year-end campaigns to understand what drove results and what fell flat. A team that works like a well-oiled machine can change the game in your favor. Setting Up Tracking and Metrics What’s measured gets managed. Define your purpose early on to set a clear trajectory.

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Fundraising Synchronous Platform Campaign 59

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew?

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 344

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. Review your applications through an equity lens after each grant cycle. Yes, training on empathy and recognizing bias is important, but it needs to go deeper. Look for ways to add specificity and remove complexity.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. While full data sets are made available and used extensively by researchers and city governments, City Health Dashboard has learned that simply providing data isn’t enough. Understand your capacity.

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Story Data Storytelling Lesson 66

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Communities are constantly changing, and no one solution is going to be the answer forever. A sustainable solution needs to keep up with these changes. As your enterprise is founded and starts to grow, you’ll need to be able to measure your success. Measuring social impact is a bit more difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The long anticipated changes to Facebook brand pages – switching to the timeline format – is now available to all brand pages. But Facebook hasn’t played god with us and flipped the switch – they’re actually giving us a month to absorb the change - and create a plan, design, and test it.

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Change Tips Help Facebook 117

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

Charity watchdogs are a type of nonprofit that publicly share information about charities, including reviews and ratings. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. So, how can nonprofit leaders effectively communicate impact to stakeholders?

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