Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Based on the 886 grantmakers that reported the salary of a full-time chief executive officer/president/executive director, we see quite a wide range in executive pay: The largest reported CEO salary ($1,106,886) is about 40 times larger than the smallest ($26,866). The median for all reported CEO salaries in 2022 was $200,000.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Ideally, every three to five years, your board and staff directors will meet to realign regarding goals and begin the strategic planning process. Measurable: Quantifiable.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The more accurate and insightful that executive directors and finance teams can be when predicting revenue, cost, and ROI, the better equipped their organization will be to sustain and grow its mission. Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Optimize grant management to ensure alignment with mission and efficient use of funds.

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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. Your major giving efforts may be supported by these team members: Executive director. Development director. Send handwritten letters.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA).

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

In our conversation with Janet Camarena, the Senior Director of Learning Experience at Candid, Cesar Del Valle, Director of Partnerships at Candid, and Chris Peterson from PKF O’Connor Davies, they discuss the importance of your 990-PF in telling your impact story and how you can take control of that narrative.

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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. Executive Director.

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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. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Measure, Test, Refine.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

posted by Christopher Haines Artistic Director & Co-Founder, iTheatre Collaborative. How do you measure that? In the intervening years, several research efforts (Brown & Novak, 2007; Radbourne, Glow & Johanson, 2010; Brown & Ratzkin 2012) proved it was possible to quantifiably measure those intrinsic impacts of art.

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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. These materials often include: Board of directors list, including names, short bios, term lengths, and contact info.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Why are CEOs and executive directors so insistent on this AI thing? 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. Understanding the AI Push We get it – the AI stuff can seem overwhelming.

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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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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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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Whether you’re advancing from within an organization, assuming an executive director position, or starting a nonprofit, the budgeting process is the first step to grasping an organization’s financial health and future. A nonprofit is a community-owned entity stewarded by a board of directors. Other unique accounting elements include….

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Welcome message: A letter from your Executive Director or Board Chair should welcome the volunteer to the organization and express sincere thanks for choosing your organization. Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for.

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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. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up? This was the opening question Jocelyn Harmon (Director of Nonprofit Services for Care2.com One tactic that has been successful for the nonprofit CARE is to provide their donors with two simple pie charts that illustrate how funds raised are allocated below the credit card donation form.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Kelly Lao, Executive Director at the German American Heritage Center, said the Bloomerang system allowed the GAHC to turn more lapsed or new donors into sustained givers. Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Some organizations struggle with where social media should “live” within the staff organization chart. They have in common the three necessary traits I listed above, plus a deep interest in achieving measurable results from their social media campaigns. Who should be in charge of implementing it?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. This step provides a golden opportunity to include the finance director in your work and create an important ally. Your real revenue goal must include the enhancements or expansion you seek.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). Do not submit a grant proposal that only covers a portion of the program; submit a proposal asking to cover all the expenses, including supplies and salary of the program director. Conclusion.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The key is to begin, said Linton Myers, Director of Innovation and Incubation at Blackbaud, and keep trying, even if the first attempt is not a slam-dunk. “Risk-averse leaders look at failures as a time loss, resource loss, or budget loss,” Myers said. What is the experience of my staff? And perfection is not the goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Getting Started with Content Curation on Twitter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

posted by Joseph Garcia Director of Communication, ASU Morrison Institute Director, ASU Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center. Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

How your key stakeholders, donors and activists talk about the issues surrounding your work is not only observable, it is measurable. When more and more people began mentioning Yemen online, their trending terms chart in Attentive.ly Social Listening Is Powerful (And Why You Should Care). More info: https://attentively.leadpages.co/your-people-are-talking-webinar/.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the hardest things for me as the director of a growing organization is learning how to lead a larger team. We set "key results"--measurable indicators--of achieving those objectives. The OKRs are publicly shared, measured, celebrated, and discussed. There's an org chart. SHARED GOALS.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Management and Organizational Charts. Potential partners will feel more comfortable to know that the Director of Services for your women’s shelter has a PhD and 10 years of experience in social work. Break up the sections for easy reading, and use graphs and charts where you can.

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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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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. Letter from your Executive Director or Board chair. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. So leave these out: 1. Good images.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

Potential donors are more likely to get involved in your work if they know exactly where the donation would go, and see that you have produced measurable results in the past to prove you can achieve what you set out to do. Don’t just hurl numbers or fancy charts onto the page! Think of this section as establishing your trustworthiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The director of the Center has been there since 1977 and is originally from Cambodia. How might you measure it? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

In a previous blog post written by Kestryl Lowrey (Managing Director, Technology Services) and Stephen Earheart (Director, Campaign Services ), Cloud for Good explored the role of data warehouses in nonprofit technology strategies. This high volume of data, again, might not be valuable to retain at the record level detail.

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