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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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Implement procedures to asess metrics. The most successful campaigns begin with research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. In fairness, some of the reluctance is probably due to entrenched processes for electing or appointing directors. Bylaws changes can be complex and time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Too often I hear nonprofit communicators and techies bemoan the stats that their Executive Directors and boards want them to track – mostly follower counts and ‘Likes’. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. As Louie observed, “analytics is about giving you meaning from data,” a feat the right tools will help accomplish.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! Facebook Insights. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

I followed up with Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director) to learn more about how they went about this first very important first step for measuring social media – defining results. Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. Learning and Metrics. Next up was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who gave a fantastic presentation on what metrics Momsrising uses to track their progress – not only KPIs but some of the countring metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Keeps the Executive director up at night. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. Select something that is: A priority in the work plan.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Educating the Board of Directors and Reviewing Internal Policies (internal): By reviewing internal policies to make sure they are up-to-date with societal trends, the organization can be sure they accurately reflect their work in the current landscape of social issues. Be upfront about the funds it will take to implement or run a program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Is it worth it?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2013

Understanding the strategic plan and the course it is charting for the organization’s future. Take the time to read the plan, think about the plan and understand the key metrics that will be used to show progress against the plan. Strategic plans ARE NOT static documents.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. These metrics enable management to take a logical approach to decision-making and problem solving. BI tools make it possible to pull charts and graphs for presentations instantly.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The director of the Center has been there since 1977 and is originally from Cambodia. What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). One group look at the metrics in terms of the ladder of engagement - both short term and long term effects.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. Capps is currently the senior director of development for the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis in California. She serves on the board of directors and as treasurer of Swish , a New York City–based gay-straight alliance.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

Jonathon Colman , TNC's Associate Director for Digital Marketing recently developed a slide presentation that summarizes the organization's experience using Facebook as a marketing tool. They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I'd include the implementation/metrics at the end or as an extension of the game. How to sell executive director on a smaller, more informal pilot? Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. I'd use the social media game as culminating activity. When will social media pay off for us? Setting up a blog.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Board members should take on key campaign leadership roles in partnership with your advancement or development director. By now, you should have a defined gift range chart to demonstrate the impact of various giving levels. It should be directly tied to your progress and defined metrics.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

It doesn’t necessarily tell you a lot about their capacity or inclination to give,” said Christine Pieper, development director for the California Native Plant Society. “We Follow up regularly with photos, charts, and thank-you notes from those who have benefited from your organization’s social good assistance. Register now.

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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 line of thinking also applies to direct mail campaigns and large email blasts.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. And not only will you have the reports, charts, and lists you need to make data-driven decisions, you can schedule reports for regular updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. I pull in metrics from all over the web to get instant snapshots and create graphs that show changes over time. One place to look). Analytics Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

We have a ten step drafting process, with stage 10 being perfection. We have a visual chart that shows us the stage of each draft – so when we reached 80% milestone, my reward was to attend the afternoon sessions of the Social Innovation Summit 2011. Impact Investing. Driving Community Solutions: Impact and Scale.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

You saw the bar chart. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. So, as we look to the Q&A, I’ll shoot you a link, but I teach this methodology all over the country to groups who are smaller and under that $2 million mark, to executive directors, development directors, boards. Sherry: Thanks, guys.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My executive director asks, maybe my board asks, you know, “Are we getting an ROI at budget time? Sometimes a system owner is like the person whose budget pays for that product, so director of development, VP of development, philanthropy manager, whatever title you have in your org. Here are the metrics. Is it worth it?”

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

The transparency of this information allows everyone in your organization to stay on the same page—management, development directors, program directors, the board, etc. Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Once your books and chart of accounts are set up properly, you’re ready to analyze key metrics to help drive outcomes.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 15, 2022

Define metrics, success measures for that goal, and… a budget! . Whether you’re the executive director of your organization or hired specifically as an event planner, the mood you set surrounding the event is the most important aspect of a successful fundraiser. Don’t stress. . Let us know in the comments!

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