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. Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

When performing a facilitated discovery in advance of a tech change, unknowns are surfaced, assumptions are validated, refined or debunked, and obstacles to adoption and long-term viability are removed. It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. Discoveries Lower Risk & Cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the heart of fundraising are the supporters who believe in your cause and want to place their trust, and dollars, into your organization to make a change in the world. Work with the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that your goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound). The good news?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

An intangible feeling of change that arises each time we enter a new year. For others , the feelings are a bit more fleeting, providing only temporary change before slipping away in the face of familiar patterns and habits. Each of those trends of course are important; however, it is about the bigger picture.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

. —– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all the changes to functionality, options, and analytics is incredibly overwhelming. One of the biggest changes shaking up Facebook users is the introduction of the Subscribe option.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Results : We measure performance of the test and roll out the most effective campaign based on registration numbers. When looking at trends, be sure to include contextual data to get the full picture. If you change event registration systems, make sure you get all of your historical data from your old system.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Effective branding also gives potential donors an accurate and compelling picture of your organization that encourages their vital support. Before you commit to a complete overhaul of your nonprofit’s branding , make sure you understand what a rebrand entails: Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. as measured by total giving. 2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Corporate leaders need to be transparent at every step of their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journey, and recent analysis provides a clear picture of DEI disclosure across corporate America today and direction for companies looking to not just talk the talk but walk the walk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome?

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. It paints a complete picture of the people you serve and the opportunities they can capitalize on with some help from within their community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

To do that, you have to step back and think about the big picture — asking yourself, "What are organizations similar to mine achieving in the way of grantseeking?" As quickly as things change today, you know how important it is to stay on top of these trends, adjusting your own expectations accordingly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

We spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the impact of individual organizations, but how does that translate to the bigger picture? As a result, when looking at nonprofit accounting statements, a large portion of the picture is missing. Laurie Mook join us to discuss social accounting. I love the idea of "collective impact."

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

So, even with third-party cookies phasing out, tools like GA4 (a first-party cookie) will not always capture a complete picture. Despite this obstacle in measurement, this tool and others like it are still incredibly useful. There likely will always be something in place that allows users to block all cookies.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. However, we shouldn’t rely on for-profit output measures to paint a complete picture of nonprofit success. How did we get here? Tweet this.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

One of the most exciting parts of 2017 for me so far has been to see how many nonprofit organizations and foundations are becoming more and more passionate about outcomes measurement. This isn’t a “flip a switch” kind of change. Outcomes Measurement Tips for Funders. Outcomes Measurement Tips for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

that focus on the changes in net assets.?. Gives you a comprehensive picture from start to finish of your entire process and helps eliminate redundant and potentially conflicting data issues. In many cases, the new compliance measures may require the collection of data over a period of time and the allocation of resources.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 13, 2021

Corporate leaders need to be transparent at every step of their DEI journey, and our Corporate Racial Equity Tracker provides a clear picture of DEI disclosure across corporate America today and direction for companies looking to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk.

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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. Diversity Metrics.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. It’s a realistic goal, people can picture where their money is going, and it gives them an anchor and a deadline to encourage them to make a donation. . You know what they say about measurement, right?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With this type of growth, we can safely say there is both appetite and enthusiasm to change the way we collect demographic data. We picture Demographics via Candid as evergreen work that continues to impact the sector significantly in the long run, with all parties benefiting from the standardization of this data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. Develop an organizational diversity and inclusion statement for staff and board. Laura Tancredi-Baese, CEO of Home Start, Inc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Purpose can be an organizational strategy and a roadmap to remain competitive in a fast-changing economy. Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. Purpose-Driven Companies use a Purpose Mindset to Advance Measurable Goals. Take CVS Health.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

AI can completely change how nonprofits engage donors and prepare for fundraising appeals. Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. The end results are more efficient fundraising, more revenue, and more time for what matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. Our theory of change posits that when we develop projects that bridge “unexpected connections” between diverse people and ideas, people build understanding and social capital with community members from different cultures, generations, and backgrounds.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

To start establishing yourself as a world-changing, impactful organization on the platform, here are a few best practices to succeed on LinkedIn. Make sure your “About” section provides an accurate picture of your mission and what your organization does. Create your company page. Your header should also include a short tag line.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why you need to look at your goals, measure your results, and tweak your stories based on that data. If certain stories aren’t effective at motivating your supporters to take action, you may need to change elements in order to get them to further empathize with the person at the center of the story. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge. Though it can seem like a big barrier to set up an impact measurement system — one for which you might not have the time, the staff, or the funding — impact management is something you can do at any level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Your story is what you say about the lives you change and why it’s important. Your story is about how your nonprofit changes lives. Was there a measurable impact? Be sure to either get permission to tell the story or change the names and pertinent details to protect privacy. First of all, what is your story?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We began by working on an alignment process called “ V2MOM ”, which stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures. This concept focuses on long-term, system-changing interventions in contrast to shorter, more specific challenges. Adopt A Project. Learn more about how Salesforce volunteers can help. . About the Author.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? A nonprofit self-audit is a chance to back up and look at the whole picture, to see how your marketing efforts are performing and where you can improve. Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. You change more lives.

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