Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. This could involve: Running digital ads on a consistent daily/weekly basis to stay top-of-mind. Lean into what works.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. 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? .

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Additionally, this digital shift to increased data interoperability means less chart chasing and improved quality care. Within the same accessible data platform, nonprofit healthcare organizations can maximize their administrative and clinical workflows.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

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

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. Attainable: Achievable based on your past successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

For nonprofits, those are not solely money or efficiency for everything that could be measured. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see?

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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. Exhibitions team.

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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

Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

According to Finch, measuring impact is a crucial component of any non-profit’s business plan, and a dedicated volunteer management application can “simplify coordination and serve as a central database for volunteer performance data.” Digital Resources Nonprofit'

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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

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

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Development Officer Annual Gala Event CLOSE DOWN Reallocate resources to digital fundraising campaigns that offer broader reach and lower overhead. Marketing Manager Charity Auctions CLOSE DOWN Shift focus to more sustainable and cost-effective fundraising methods such as digital campaigns.

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Many grant applications will ask similar questions, such as what programs or materials you need funding for and why, how your nonprofit makes an impact in the community, and how you’ll measure success if selected for the award. Download Now: The Digital Marketing Checklist. Organizational chart. Most recent Form 990.

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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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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Chief Digital Officer.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Aside from fundraising and digital tools, EveryAction also is a leading provider of nonprofit advocacy technology.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. At the Digital Forum Session at the IFCAsia, we did the Spectagram twice to help to identify different skill levels of participants and their organizations capacity levels. Spectragram.

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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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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. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 97

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. Top feature: Analyze your data using charts that are updated in real-time. Run Agile sprints, marketing campaigns, and other initiatives to support your nonprofit’s goals.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let’s start embracing the fact that the next 20 years will bring tremendous digital transformation in the nonprofit sector. While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. It’s in our org charts. Stop, Start, and Continue.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

offers a similarly measured approach from a business perspective of whether or not to upgrade. For end users, Windows 10 introduces a new Start menu, web browser, personal digital assistant, and more. It covers the new Windows 10 start menu, system settings, Cortana digital assistant, and more. Flow chart: Wes Holing.

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

A digital strategy is a clear vision for the future of your organization’s digital ecosystem and a plan to get there. In a rapidly changing world, it’s crucial for organizations to focus on a digital strategy that is rooted in organizational goals, audience needs, and the impact you are hoping to achieve. You’re not alone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

You can call us work-from-home employees, e-workers, iWorkers, teleworkers, telecommuters, web workers, mobile professionals, mobile workers, digital nomads, location-independent professionals, technomads, or workers 2.0. New productivity measurement tools like MySammy measures a teleworker’s productivity level each day.

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Phone NSF PowerPoint Mobile 67

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? What is the experience of my staff? The objective is the destination; the key results get you there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Most organizations still use paper forms to collect information, and don’t have the time or resources to make that data useful in a digital format. The Charting Impact Questionnaire helps your organization tell its impact story in an accessible, concise way, and it might even help you sharpen your approach to making a 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. How your key stakeholders, donors and activists talk about the issues surrounding your work is not only observable, it is measurable.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. Multimedia elements In the digital age, incorporating multimedia elements into your annual report can bring your stories to life. Keep this EXTREMELY clear and simple!

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Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 92

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. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Process 111

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We celebrate each others' wins digitally without clogging anyone's inbox. We set "key results"--measurable indicators--of achieving those objectives. The OKRs are publicly shared, measured, celebrated, and discussed. There's an org chart. Frontline part-time staff are part of the conversation. SALESFORCE.

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Collaboration Tools Build Organization 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., A tool for nonprofit success Unlike businesses and corporations, nonprofits measure success by helping at-risk individuals and communities thrive. or combined with photos of the communities you serve.

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Storytelling Fund Data Cancer 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This post is an inspirational message and reminder that stubborn visionary optimism drives accomplishments and that half measures and incremental steps just don’t seem to get us very far when it comes to education. Scott and his team travel with digital still and video cameras everywhere they go.

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

The data of someone who attended a fundraising dinner event years ago might be good to measure in relation to the interactions that were made or to chart attendance over time, but the institution may not necessarily need the actual individual record data. . Your CRM users should be interacting with relevant, actionable data.

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Education Roles Data Strategy 84

Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

But here are some operational decisions for your team to consider to ensure your data is squeaky clean: What data needs to be measured? Accounting data Donor data Member retention Sponsor satisfaction Program participation Program impact What’s the right frequency to measure and discuss data? Accuracy: How can you check it?

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Ratio Analysis Data Platform 78

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try this energy efficiency calculator to find out what improvements would lower the impact of your home , and search on Save Energy for local grants you can get for installing insulation or green energy measures. The measures on this list aren’t the only things we can do to reduce our impact, but they are the most important ones.

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