Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You know what they say about measurement, right? Start with benchmark data.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 98

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Why are you measuring or tracking something that you can’t (or don’t want to) impact?

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Metrics Impact Change NTEN 158

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. Online fundraising. Peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio. Private independent foundations reported the highest median ratio (3.0:1), 1), and family foundations and “other” grantmakers ii reported the lowest median ratio (2.4:1).

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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Design Marketing Metrics Measure 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. Measure, Test, Refine. Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014. Include a strong call to action (CTA).

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

In a conversation with Laia Griñó, who leads Candid’s Data Discovery team, she recommends putting your grantees at the center of your data governance plan. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists. But you still need to collect some information in order to make an educated funding decision.

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Story Impact Trend Grant 72

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer “solutions&# for tracking, measuring, and even “engaging&# with your community online. You’d be surprised at the kinds of conversations that emerge when you start talking about your community, especially as it is understood by various departments in your organization.

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Map Content Community Howto 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. What we rarely acknowledge with this expectation of perfectly planned outcomes is that every cost, timeline, population to be “served”, outcomes and strategy are all embedded with assumptions (even if they are contained in a logic model or Gantt chart).

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Collaboration Impact Test Grant 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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Analytics Interview Story Phase 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. I can’t help but wonder if their methods are similar to how VolunteerMatch measures its impact and results , although VolunteerMatch does not receive the same scale of foundation funding as nonprofits in this sample.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. In the nonprofit world, we can expect something similar, which is why we recommend trying to reach out to a potential donor eight times to get a conversation.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Donorbox’s UltraSwift Checkout feature allows donors to quickly complete payments in just a few clicks, promoting higher conversion rates. Top feature: Users gain insight into online traffic, transaction times, website visits by device type, and conversion rates with real-time analytics.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. I'm hoping that some of us can have a conversation about what Tim has done or perhaps try to apply to their own social media project. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog?

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Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. They are not saying don't use numbers.

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ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Fear may be one of the best motivators but conversely, it is also one of the best demotivators. To put this another way, here is a super scientific chart showing how correlation will be causation for how useful AI will be for someone based on fear.

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Adopt Generation Picture Reflection 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

He’s one of many four-legged and fine feathered fans of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” For me, reach is only the first rung of the ladder of engagement towards my ultimate success – which is to get 2-3 blog post ideas per month from sharing content and conversation on my Facebook Page.

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Tunisia NGO Facilitation Calendar 99

Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own. All you have to do is click drag, and drop the metrics you’re measuring.

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Report Data Tools Stats 56

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is important to get your team on the same page, create a strategy for execution, and monitor/measure the progress, outcomes, and result of the change. Try to keep the conversation a two-way street. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Measure Your Progress.

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Change Management Change Management Phase 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating, we also incorporated movement into our day long meeting. ” “How will we remember our conversation?” We had to discuss specific strategies or do brainstorming on how to measure a result and then report back to the full group.

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Tips Brain Facilitation Chart 50

Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Measure The Results There are myriad amounts of ways your nonprofit can measure the success of your online fundraising campaigns.

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Studies Online Fundraising Nonprofit 78

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Yesterday in part one " Measuring the Impact of Your Social Media Program " of this blog series, I discussed the importance of audience reach, how people see your key messages, and how to measure social media reach. None of these measurements will be helpful unless your organization knows how to truly engage people on social networks.

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Social Media Media Social Measure 68

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. The Audubon Society's Porter Mason said that EveryAction's network effect "increased conversion rates by a magnitude of 5x to 20x". #2. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16. It's trusted by some of the largest nonprofits.

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer "solutions" for tracking, measuring, and even "engaging" with your community online. You’d be surprised at the kinds of conversations that emerge when you start talking about your community, especially as it is understood by various departments in your organization.

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Map Content Community Chart 75

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# Listening is a big part of social technologies as you can tap into and follow all kinds of conversations. Campaigning.

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Data Mobile Time Map 154

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Next, measuring the impact of your digital marketing can be broken down into two ways: Tangible Measurements : Are typically revenue focused where the desired outcome is to sell a service or receive donations while accounting for expenses.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Hootsuite allows for a set-it-and-forget-it approach that frees up more time during your fundraising campaign for more face-to-face conversations with supporters and less time watching your computer screen. Outbid notifications.

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Org Raise Tools Help 82

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Today, we have many things to worry about, watch for, measure, monitor and just deal with in general. However, there are several KPIs that we all monitor and measure in our daily lives that translate well into additional KPIs that I would recommend. Author: Katie Beth DeSchepper.

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Channel Chart Contact Measure 49

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. 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.

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Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65