Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

and then studying and duplicating their methods. How I chose the nonprofits is that I have a basic set of criteria that I use as a litmus test when I audit nonprofits and their social media campaigns. There’s always room for improvement since social media best practices change as often as the tools themselves.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

This meant that even if our results had shown a clear shift to support or disprove our hypothesis, there still would have been a question of whether that shift was a result of our experiment or just a random change that would have occurred regardless of what we had done.

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Case Study Design Experiment Data 87

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? If you are trying to decide whether to seek public funding to scale a well-developed program, a randomized control impact study would be helpful.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. These types of assessments are best for testing the basic memorization of facts.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

Alexis Bonnell is the former Chief Innovation Officer of USAID, where she had the privilege of working with thousands of innovators, inside and outside of USAID who are changing the world and helping millions of people become self-reliant. In 2018, USAID received a 10/10 in Innovation in the “Results for America” study of Federal Agencies.

Government 66

Government Learning San Jose Hawaii 66

The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the community you serve, the social issue you’re tackling, or the change you want to make in the world. Break down your goals into objectives and strategies: Objectives are the specific steps or milestones needed to achieve your goals, while strategies are the methods or tactics you’ll use to accomplish your objectives.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. Other times, programs can achieve rigor in collecting evidence with simpler methods, such as discussing learning questions that will lead to insights on one part of an intervention.

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Integration Impact Practice Management 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? That is not design thinking.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Studies show that in recent years, older users have proven to be very adaptable when it comes to new technologies and are just as likely to donate online as their younger counterparts. According to Nielsen’s usability tests of users aged 65 and over, older citizens require larger typography, with 12-point fonts (and higher) working best.

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Method Guide Donor Demographics 28

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

If gamification sounds like the right answer for your organization, it is most important to define the goals for both parties and the methods that will be used to create an engagement system. Play, Test, and Iterate. Target Audience. Player Goals. Engagement Model. Play Space and Journey. Game Economy.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, a change in legislation or a natural disaster could motivate concerned supporters to take action. For example, you might test different Giving Tuesday email strategies or affinity month themes to see if donors respond better to certain appeals. Major events that are relevant to your mission. Their preferred giving amount.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

By suggesting a giving method that will tend to yield a higher gift, such as requesting a planned or recurring gift. Several different studies provide insight into why how you present giving price options can influence donors to give more (or less) generously. Then they reversed this order for the test. decrease in revenue.

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Donation Donor Gift Nonprofit 72

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In this way, the show mirrors the case study approach we use to train students at Harvard Business School. Question: What is the largest change in entrepreneurship you've seen during your 24 years teaching? Essentially, they apply the scientific method to their startup by testing hypotheses.

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Case Study Advice Student Product 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

How do you build a movement for institutional change? We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. Last year, we tested out different formats. We plan to fuel a distributed Change Network of organizations growing OF/BY/FOR ALL together.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets can be 280 characters, but studies have shown that tweets between 71 and 100 characters perform better than longer tweets. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. A reader needs to be able to easily and quickly comprehend the message in your tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2019

In comparison, a recent Gartner study that found that 59% of business enterprises have some form of AI deployment in operation today. The Salesforce.Org study also looked at how nonprofits were having meaningful conversations with their constituents. Gartner estimates that the average company has four AI or ML projects in place.).

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Studies Gartner Marketing Integration 17

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Many of the ideas resonated and Mario Morino was one of the peer reviewers for our manuscript and helped make connections about how to link measurement of social media and networks to nonprofit social change results. He has just released the companion to his first book, Working Hard – and Working Well written by Dr. David E.K.

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Metrics Measure Analytics Method 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years. Geoff has moved on to working on exciting projects , including a book and Kami will continue the brand Zoetica working on strategy projects such as this important effort to keep.NGO domain in the hands of nonprofits.

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Learning Pakistan Haiti Facilitation 92

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Storytelling for nonprofits can come in a variety of forms, from case studies in your annual report to personal stories or testimonials from people your organization has served. It occurs when there is only the appearance of diversity, representation, or inclusion, and no effort is made to create substantial, systemic change.

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Storytelling Guide Nonprofit Story 52

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

The truth is, this Freudian stereotype is only one part of a much larger field of study. To boil it down, psychology is simply the study of why. There are countless studies and experiments out there. If you were looking to find the “best” teaching method, you would have had a hard time finding a definitive answer.

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Fundraising Teach Influence Childhood 28

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

To test the theory, I recently ran a remarketing campaign on Facebook promoting my article, “ How To Get More Online Donations With Content Marketing.” I would recommend testing out some of the feature sets to maximize the success of your fundraising ideas. Without remarketing, only 8% will return to complete the purchase.

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Ideas Donation Online Strategy 111

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You might have a campaign steering committee, a kick-off committee, a committee to oversee the feasibility study, and a lead gift committee. There’s a method to the campaign committee madness. Want a few capable people to select your consultant or oversee the feasibility study ? Pull together a group to advise you on that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

The main part of the meeting was two working sessions where we were divided into five small groups to focus defining outcomes, strategies, key performance metrics, and measurement methods for five outcome areas that may be common to many foundation’s communication’s strategies. Our foundation is viewed as transparent.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

NonProfit Hub

MAY 1, 2020

Data privacy gets even trickier when you’re dealing with a third-party vendor, whose systems and storage methods might leave you at higher risk. . A 2016 study showed an average cost of $7 million to companies that experienced a data breach that required their victims to be notified. Finally, test their tech-savviness with drills.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

I don’t know for sure, but I can show you how to answer that question for yourself using the good ol’ scientific method and Google Analytics. At this step you will create your alternate donation form experience, but there’s one more step before you make the change live! How much should I change in an experiment?

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Technique Analytics Google Test 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The landscape is changing so quickly that there’s no guarantee a social measurement tool will remain relevant. According to this Mashable study , Pinterest actually drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit combined. Avoid long contracts with social media-related software providers.

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Social Media Channel Difference Media 119

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

It changes kids'' lives. While all the projects are fast, messy, and incomplete, each is like a small test tube of ideas and possibilities for opening up the way we do social impact research. Every active research method is an intervention. You run a program. It builds more responsible environmental stewards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. What is the difference?

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

To compensate for these changes in individual behavior, digital campaigners have had to up their testing and innovating game to new levels, and bite the bullet and send more email than ever before. Having a tool that allows for easy segmentation and testing is key to improving email deliverability. High Complaints.

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Benchmark Digital Trend Report 62

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. The problem with minimalism has been studied by many designers. As designers, we claim that through testing, surveys, and extensive secondary research we’re able to understand the user better.

Design 52

Design System Structure Ratio 52

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“Most organizations fall into one of three cloud mindsets,” said Kelley Hecht, team lead for nonprofit industry advisors at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which commissioned an innovation study about the state of nonprofit cloud technology adoption. Make Evangelists of Early Users Change is difficult, Myers says, and it requires buy-in.

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Nonprofit Adopt Chart Press 98

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

A way to explore doing a blind study on one''s self. A critical part of the scientific method is the development of a hypothesis, which can then be tested with well controlled research. We worked with an anthropologist studying the evolution of coordination to develop Experimonth: Do You Know What I Know You Know? ,

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Donors are shifting their preferences to online giving as their preferred method of donating to causes they care about. Industry studies show that short URLs with your target keyword or phrase rank better than long URLs. A study found that pages with outbound links to external sources have a positive impact on SEO.

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Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

However, when it comes to your site’s search rankings, what Google has done is changed their search algorithm on mobile devices to down rank sites that are not “mobile friendly”. This simply continues to support the trend lines that we in the industry have seen for awhile—mobile has become the primary method of browsing the web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By Nathan Hill , Optimization Evangelist at NextAfter , works every day to share how testing and optimization can lead to fundraising growth that can transform organizations and causes. If you want to dig into all of the results, you can check out the full study (including 32 unique and data-driven test ideas) at: recurringgiving.com.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

The medical society and association landscape is ever-changing. We turn to the American Association of Medical Society Executives to learn from leaders in this space and hear their experiences adopting to change. In the ever-changing medical market, medical society executives strive to be nimble and quick to adapt.

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