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

Connection Cafe

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. There are undoubtedly for-profit business practices that we in the charity world use every day to the benefit of our employees and missions. How is ROI calculated?

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3 Ways to Assess Donor Giving Patterns to Boost Donations

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Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. When your data is clean and accurate, you can boost the ROI of your outreach efforts because you can reach out to each demographic in ways that resonate with them.

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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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What the 2020 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report Tells Us About 2021 and Beyond

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In terms of donor retention, FEP measures three specific donor retention rates: the overall average donor retention rate (donors of all types regardless of recency/frequency), the average retention rate of first-time donors (those who have only given one gift), and “repeat” donors (donors who gave last year and in prior years).

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What factors contribute to successful nonprofit executive compensation strategies?

ASU Lodestar Center

But as the social sector matures, becomes more professional and finds meaningful ways to measure success, executive compensation is developing a new image. Historically, executives at America’s nonprofits have felt pressure to take a nonprofit discount in pay in exchange for the psychic benefit of charity work.

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Keynote from My Charity Connects Conference at NetChange Week

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My Charity Connect: Netchange Week. I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Nonprofit Analytics: Overview and 13 Analytics for Your Org

DNL OmniMedia

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.