Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

GuideStar’s vision is to drive philanthropy by increasing nonprofit data collection, distribution, and innovation. This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Data is meaningless without context. It’s simple.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. With this fundraising app, your chapter can better plan fundraising events, collect dues, and communicate with members. Plus, pay your chapter’s bills from the same app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Defined Audience.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. And how do you check results?

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Our work with the ALS Association details how it transitioned from the viral success of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” to a streamlined, comprehensive digital strategy that united local chapters and national audiences. The ALS Association had a national website and individual sites for each regional chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. The problem is that data everywhere!

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

They have the power to inspire, engage, and ignite action in ways that data and statistics alone cannot. Once you have gathered and analyzed the data, you will have a better idea of how to craft a story that speaks to them. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

You saw the bar chart. We are going to invest in development coordinator because you can’t do it all, or we are going to invest in a full-time database manager because we got to have that data, right?” So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. We are going to hire that new program person.

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