DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence There is a lot of buzz surrounding AI technologies and rightfully so, as the AI healthcare market is measured to be worth $38 billion by 2027. As a result, care facilities can raise support more efficiently and devote more time to improving their quality of care. With this in mind, let’s begin.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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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. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. The result is discord among teams and a lack of progress.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. Our expectations around results are powerful. They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible.

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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. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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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. In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

Depending on the context and clarity you provide in your 990-PF, the resulting narrative might not be what you or your grantees expect. Make sure you provide the appropriate amount of context to the researchers and reporters who are combing through your tax forms, or they might come to the wrong conclusion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. The chart below highlights that upward trend. In 2011, 85% of respondents reported an increase in demand. But this funding may have been a stopgap measure at best, and some of these programs have now run their course. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The report offers a couple of key findings: Nonprofits very much want to be able to understand their performance and are taking steps to do so. The report ends with some reasons why there might be a disconnect. Another reason might be that nonprofits do not have skills and capacity to do performance assessment.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

And yet a huge majority—93 percent—report that “the most important functionality lets staff track volunteer activities and the number of hours worked.” Or a volunteer who reported that they spent more time coordinating a labyrinth of data than actually getting any quality, cause-related work completed.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Further, funders disincentivize risk when they require lengthy applications and reports that may not always showcase reality or the organization’s ability to create impact. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Next, funders stunt risk with their beloved wait-and-see approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? The Twitter chart looks at the impact of a “tweetathon” we decided to hold on June 13; one week before World Refugee Day (June 20). Describe the Google Analytics Charts – specifically the diagram where you have annotations. Who did you prepare the chart for and why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Board retreats, day long meetings, can be potentially be deadly — sitting most of the time and hearing a parade of reports. However, this was far from it.

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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. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

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. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang. These are all reasonable considerations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Note from Beth: For those of you who have been following my blog for a long time, you know of my obsession with research reports, particularly social media research snippets. Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. research report from Idealware in May.

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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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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Measure the impact that changes to your online engagement approach have on your fundraising outcomes. Run metrics reports regularly and share the results with your team to ensure everyone is on the same page about how your strategy is going.

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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. Review major gift results Assess your major giving program results to determine how well the program works and identify opportunities for improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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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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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Pull detailed, customizable reports. Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. Choose your data points, and use Report Builder to easily arrange and interpret your data. #6. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16.

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Distortive results – an average revenue per “user” figures are inaccurate, due to inflated “user” counts. The end result? bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . l everage the results. Measuring impact is equally important to both the grantor and the grantee.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Recipe for (Measuring) Success. Event season is in full swing which means three things to me… reports, reports, reports. If you’ve got an event (or many events) taking place this fall, and are using an online fundraising tool like TeamRaiser, you are probably up to your elbows in reports as well.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Compliant reporting. Automate your reporting to save your organization time and energy. Their fundraising app makes it easy to search a keyword and find resulting grants that could be a good fit. Then, better understand the result of your experiment by pulling information from both Optimize and Analytics.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Are you ready to maximize your fundraising efforts and see real results? 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. Gift range chart. Measure all fundraising metrics. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.)

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff. Your reports should allow your organization to clearly see the trouble areas that are causing your goals to be at risk.

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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. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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