Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Top Free Fundraising Software Solutions Fundraising software solutions are tools nonprofits can use to accept online donations and report on giving trends.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Okay, now you’re probably getting stressed out thinking about today’s to do list, that report you have to write, and a day scheduled with back-to-back meetings – and probably think it takes days to create an infographic. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts.

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Chart Tutorial Template PowerPoint 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. While most organizations are using technology to realize their missions, few are effectively measuring the results. The last time I keynoted was five years ago!

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Jacksonville Data Social Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Social Measure Charity Library 67

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Earlier this summer I posted on top tips for measuring ROI and getting strategic with data , touching on the idea and importance of actionable data, or rather, data that helps draw meaningful conclusions and future actions to optimize programs. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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ROI Social Media Measure Jordan 36

Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

I hope these resources fill you with inspiration and gusto to go out and create your own amazing content! Charitable Giving Report Quiz : The Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic released the 5 th annual Charitable Giving Report at the beginning of the year. Toolkit utilizing the findings in Giving USA.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! View more presentations from womenwhotech. Facebook Insights.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Out of 151 nonprofits, only 24 of them scored 76% or above.

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Studies Online Fundraising Nonprofit 78

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Data-driven fundraising strategies are always the smartest move, so make sure you have the necessary constituent relationship management software (CRM) integrations and reporting tools. By using a CRM’s fundraising reporting tools, you can compile effective reports that help you understand and document your research into your donor base.

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Content (Facilitator: Kavita and Michael – GlobalGiving). We were given ten minutes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Although it can be tempting to measure everything, it is best to focus on those key indicators relevant to an organization’s goal or areas where improvement is needed and not get bogged down by too much information. The output of a dashboard can in turn be used to generate reports that document an organization’s progress.

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Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. In case you missed our webinar, feel free to watch it here and learn how to create annual reports that rock! These elements can also increase engagement with your report when shared online.

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Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 98

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . Because the world of philanthropy is transforming; impact measurement is your organization’s ability to track, report, and – most importantly –. Measuring impact is equally important to both the grantor and the grantee.

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Impact Help Foundation Atlanta 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Content Curation Primer. Content Curation on Twitter.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. What content on the website is most popular? see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). Content Strategy.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Compliant reporting. Automate your reporting to save your organization time and energy. This seven-step guide helps your organization build a plan and structure the campaign using spreadsheets, downloadable plans, and charts that can be adapted to your organization’s needs. Bank synchronization. The best part?

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Org Raise Tools Help 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. Concept Poster Session.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

How might you measure it? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. What's the outcome? What's the key metric? What's your strategy map?

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. If you have lots of events to report on, you’re doing too many events! Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Good images.

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Newsletter email Create Template 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

a lot, so it is really helpful to have a peek the annual series of Horizon Reports that have also flowed out of NMC's Emerging Technologies initiative. Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?" The Stars Our Destination by Gardner Campbell.

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” Often new donor counts and retention are measured separately and can feel disparate from each other. Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

She is responsible for the site’s non-database content and the GuideStar Newsletter. What’s so hard about measuring nonprofit impact? Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area?

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Measure Impact Nonprofit Adopt 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email – that does not work. Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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Research Donor Gift Leadership 224

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Below we’ll explore four things to consider in nonprofit storytelling: The narrative structure The content The medium The donor experience Managing all of the moving pieces of your nonprofit can be tough; sharing your authentic story as a change-maker doesn’t have to be. Again, authenticity is key.

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Storytelling Impact Arts Nonprofit 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Guides, not report cards. Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend.

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Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend.

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Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you want to share the content with a friend or a coworker or a boss or whatever, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff to you later on today. And, you know, if we look at this pie chart from Giving USA, you can see like competition has really increased for philanthropic dollars.

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Video Giving Gift Donor 132

NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email - that does not work. Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) - open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts.

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Research Donor Gift Leadership 59

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

While Matures rely on direct mail, 77%, as their primary giving channel, only 54% of Boomers, 43% of Gen X and 26% of Gen Y report giving through the channel. And likely the content and style of the packages themselves need to be different based on the generation you are trying to reach.

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