Candid

MAY 9, 2023

For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

The responses did not involve salary, autonomy or time investment; but rather a universal theme of making a difference. What would change? And how would you change? The Song of Significance” tackles questions to reset how employees and supervisors view, approach, measure and define work. To do something with significance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. Keep them coming.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

While most university-bound students apply to their four-year school of choice with the intent of completing a program of study and attaining a degree, a community college student’s “why” is typically neither as clear nor as linear. Simply put, should community college students be expected to complete or not?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Moreover, an engaged community can lead to a more empowered community that works collectively to solve problems and implement change. Sources: Atlee, T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2012

“ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change ,” co-authored with KD Paine is getting into people’s hands! Stanford University - Discussion with authors facilitated by Lucy Bernholz. DoSomething Book Party. 501-C 3 Tech Club. San Francisco (Oct 16/17). Foundation Center Grantspace Workshop.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We hope you like acronyms, because Google is making some big changes — and that means nonprofits will need to understand some important technical details in order to effectively reach, track, and mobilize supporters. With that out of the way, let’s dive into what’s changing, and what you need to know. Universal Analytics (a.k.a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. All in all lots of good measurement for nonprofit learning.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

Tim Hill, Strategic Advisor for Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions, recently appeared on the Changing Higher Ed podcast hosted by Drumm McNaughton of The Change Leader, Inc. Changing Higher Ed Episode 43: Raising Money for Universities during COVID with Scott Roberts and Tim Hill . How are they able to raise money?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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? Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) measures ROI. from the University of Virginia. and has appeared in Axios Media Trends.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. The 7 steps of measurement. in Political Communication from the University of Maryland and a B.A.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, this is not a universal rule. Clear Goal and Demonstrated Impact: By spotlighting specific stories and quantifying the outcomes of past contributions, donors will see their gifts as catalysts for positive change and want to give more. 5) Accessibility Accessibility must always be considered in fundraising.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Focus group participants from private, public, community, and historically Black colleges and universities told researchers that many of them had been recipients as well as providers of help since 2020. Funding lines don’t necessarily have to change to support service,” he said.

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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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If he was on television today, he’d be telling us, “In 2020, the world changed.” The world has changed a lot, and it’s not likely to get back to the old normal. Just about every nonprofit made major changes in 2020. Chances are they changed. Now ask yourself, what changes are going to stay attractive for your donors?

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Over the past few years, nonprofit organizations have been at the forefront of change. Salesforce’s nonprofit platform helps these organizations deliver services quickly and efficiently and measure the results. Effective Fundraising and Impact Measurement With Data. At CARE, impact measurement is critical.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In October 2022, Google announced they would replace their Universal Analytics (UA) with their next-generation measurement solution Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , on July 1st, 2023. This can help you compare results, learn the platform and make changes without risking your data. How they collect and display data isn’t the same.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Alfred Prufrock : “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” Disturb the universe? For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; New Feature: The Timeline. Talking of Michelangelo. In a minute there is time.

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

Luckily, nonprofit organizations can track website activity to make those essential changes by viewing user data through the use of Google Analytics 4. This new analytics software is taking the place of Universal Analytics , its predecessor program. By July 1 st , 2023 Universal Analytics won’t be supported.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Results seen in the Partner Readiness Assessment determined sufficient readiness to partners across multiple dimensions including organization and operations, leadership and management, and adaptive or change readiness. Measure and share impact. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 1, 2019

Though events can be a costly way of fundraising, they continue to raise valuable awareness and bring new people to the organization, which can be difficult to measure with a dollar value. With the changing times have also come changing channels of communications with event participants.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Getting setup with a GA4 property that pulls in data has been a smooth process for us and remains as simple as it was with Universal Analytics. Where Universal Analytics only provided metrics such as time on site, bounce rate and pages per visit as standard engagement metrics, GA4 takes a more intelligent approach. Unsampled data.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

If a user opts into tracking, nothing really changes. But if a user opts-out, it will change how advertising giants like Facebook are then able to collect and utilize that user data. This means it will also change whether you, as a Facebook advertiser, have access to that data. Change in amount of conversions attributed to ads.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Back then, we were concerned about heady items like constituent-centric experiences, data-driven culture and strategy, technology for change, and use cases for technology. Our latest 4th edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report reflects a set of organizations struggling with this imbalance while navigating a rapidly-changing future.

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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. Jen Nation is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

While nonprofits implement DEI measures without putting them into practice, these groups are judging by what they see and may be deciding to shift their support to an organization that is more actionable in its efforts. Recruiting staff from BIPOC peer networks and job boards, and historically black colleges and universities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a helpful framework to organize churches to affect change in their cities. Collective Impact is a place-based methodology conceived to affect large scale change. Commit to a shared measurement system: Common metrics hold the cohort accountable and informs future action. God loves cities.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We’ve written previously about the release of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and the impending retirement of Universal Analytics (UA) on July 1, 2023. Buttons move around, some functionality changes, and it can take a little time to realize the potential of new tools or capabilities.

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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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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Switch to GA4 + What it Means for Your Data Google launched Google Analytics 4 as a new generation of their analytics platform and sunsetted Universal Analytics, GA4’s predecessor. Despite this obstacle in measurement, this tool and others like it are still incredibly useful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

They’re flexible enough to pursue multiple paths to impact, which is critical given how quickly the world changes today. BBBSA’s digital transformation enabled the organization to use technology to learn more about its constituents, make better matches, and more effectively measure the progress of the connections between Littles and Bigs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

At a university,?a that focus on the changes in net assets.?. The purpose of this change is to improve generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by increasing the transparency of contributed nonfinancial assets for nonprofit organizations. Oversight of changes made to set up, users, and permissions. At churches,?it?may

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Not much has changed regarding why motivated and hopeful people enter the nonprofit sector – to work, volunteer or support. Therefore, for nonprofits to continue tackling such complex issues and systems, leaders must seek to create, support and sustain high-performing teams capable of enacting transformative change.

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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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