The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Secure Your Supporters’ Trust: Mastering Privacy-Compliant Fundraising In an age where every click, like, and share is meticulously tracked, the landscape of digital fundraising is evolving rapidly. Their policies directly influence how nonprofits can access, use, and leverage user data for fundraising.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

As the old saying goes, time is money. Thankfully, the book Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits breaks down, in clear and concise terms, just how much time an organization should devote to building and managing a social media campaign.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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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 are the key results of this campaign ?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

While the end of the year can be a time to relax and unwind, it’s also a season for nonprofits to ramp up fundraising. Now (August or earlier) is the time to start planning your end-of-year giving campaign! Your plan should include your campaign’s messaging, theme, channels, and follow-up plan, for starters. Set S.M.A.R.T.

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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. The City Health Dashboard provides a case study in data storytelling that is unique to their platform but provides universal lessons for any organization looking to use data to reach audiences or influence action.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

A matching grant pledge prior to the big day encouraged supporters to dig deep, resulting in a 40% revenue increase compared to the previous year’s total by the time the day drew to a close. Those results should give pause to anyone convinced that email is losing sway to text messaging, social media, or other channels. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Measurement Challenges. I believe this is because it is so difficult to measure behavior change.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

Influencer. An influencer matching partner is an individual with a large social media following. Given their wide audience reach, influencers may be able to use crowdfunding to establish your matching fund. There’s no guarantee, however, that the influencer will be successful with their crowdfunding efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?” . Measuring inputs and outputs Calculating ROI and other relevant metrics requires measuring your campaign’s inputs and outputs. . or $1 raised for every $0.40

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 10, 2023

In today’s digital age, having a strong media presence can significantly influence the success of an event. Their primary responsibility is to promote the event through various media channels and engage with potential attendees, sponsors, and the public.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

Similar to other social platforms, you can follow your friends, creators, influencers, or celebrities. The potential here goes beyond the average marketing or communication channel. A week-long event called Clubhouse Loves Texas was organized and promoted by some of the app’s biggest influencers. So why should nonprofits care?

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

Your supporters are ultimately in charge of their own journeys, but you can certainly take action to influence and guide them. Planning a series of steps to engage your first-time supporters with your organization increases the likelihood they’ll remain engaged. Do you have a planned next step for them? Why might that be?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

The resulting digital community not only moved mentoring online in a vibrant, flexible way, but also showed BBBSA that it could use technology to learn more about its constituents, make better matches, and more effectively measure the progress of the connections between Littles and Bigs. Can you accurately forecast income from your campaigns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. I used simple measurement tools to collect data and further analyzed it in Excel spreadsheets. Approximately 85% of the donations were converted from my personal profile on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

This means identifying the goals and KPIs for measuring success of your event. You also want to be sure to set up a measurement system for a landing page where you are collecting RSVPs (and email addresses) and perhaps testing some different messaging. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Should your nonprofit do more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any more time? What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? How are you measuring that? How much time are you investing? And, not take you a lot of extra time).

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Digital channels have made it affordable for brands to communicate their message to a broad audience. Email marketing is an effective channel but your message is often isolated to people who already know you exist. Next, to maximize reach I integrated my promotion strategy across multiple channels. Chapter 1: Introduction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. Make a one-time or monthly financial contribution to the organization. This could be done annually or just one time. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Be Informed.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This type of sponsorship provides the time and space to present a well-rounded narrative as to what benefits your event will have for that audience. Use endorsement or influencer marketing: Endorsements might be challenging to manage, but influencer marketing on social media for big-time events is proven successful.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Keeping track of your engagement rate allows you to determine whether you’re effectively communicating and connecting with social media supporters over time. Conversion Rate Once your organization has a bustling community of supporters on social media, how do you channel their enthusiasm into meaningful impact?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Private, public, and nonprofit organizations are seeing that the more they invest time and resources into their communications, the more likely they are to create impact and inspire real behavioral change. . It is important to start small and build up: begin with a clearly defined target audience, a communications channel strategy (e.g.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Are they paid, full-time, part-time? A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. There’s potential there.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. Was the social media plan you implemented worth the time you spent running it? In starting, define what metrics should be measured per social media tactic employed and ensure all meaningful elements are measured.

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Media Cause

JUNE 28, 2021

Whether your goal is to drive traffic, acquire leads, get donations or even gain learnings, having a defined why for your campaign will help you plan for, and ultimately measure, success. Channel selection comes down to a few things: your goals , your audience and your budget. Selecting Ad Platforms for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it? Use the “ Valid Measurement Grid &#. The messages or story is created, shared via intermediaries or influencers: This can be legislators, journalists, or other influencers. The rows are your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

This could be as simple as “If we post more links on Facebook with the embedded link tool, we will increase our reach” or any of the items that Mari Smith suggests you measure on Facebook. You could pick any channel, social or otherwise to set up an a/b test hypothesis. Read more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed. is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time.

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AccelEvents

JULY 26, 2021

Identify how you will measure the success of your event. Content production can be time-consuming, but this is one of the most critical parts of your event. Video content is great for social media channels like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, but you might want to consider other avenues. Content Production and Content Audit.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Diversify fundraising channel s: The report documents shifts in donor behavior and preferences. Therefore, be sure to diversify your fundraising channels to reach donors through multiple platforms, events, and initiatives. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This weekend, I got to spend some time at a beautiful conference center on Falling Leaf Lake with 140 grassroots environmental organizations, all grantees of Patagonia, at the Tools for Grassroots Activists Conference. Their audience also includes a target group that influences that audience, local fly fishing businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Increase reach on social media channels. Increase engagement on social channels. Social media content mirrors other channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Are they paid, full-time, part-time? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Chris Poole is our full time Videographer and Media Producer. The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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