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What Are Key Event Metrics and Why Do They Matter?

Greater Giving

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measures of how much money your fundraising events are raising, how your audience is growing, and which parts of your event are the most successful. Fundraising ROI (Return on Investment). Key Event Metric examples to help you track your own ROI. Cost-to-Revenue Ratio.

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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. 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. How is ROI calculated?

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

It’s also important to remember that social media is a changing space, with tools and applications, even functionality, evolving every day. So, your definition of success has to be flexible to the changing times and the changing needs of your audience. Identify what measures of success can be used. Then…repeat!

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Social Change Behind the Firewall. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. You're Never Too Old To Change the World. Twitter Demographics.

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The Ultimate Online Fundraising: Guide + 10 Top Ideas

Bloomerang

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. Then, determine the amount you’re willing to spend to hit those goals and lead to a healthy return on investment (ROI). Make secure donations.

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