Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization. Everything You Need to Know about the Dublin Summit and the New Measurement Standards. SMMStandards Progress and Roadmap: Marklein and Paine Present the First Social Media Measurement Standards at the Dublin Summit. But where to start?

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Know What Success Is. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment.

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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. Informed fundraising plans.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

With this in mind, we’ll highlight four digital healthcare technology trends that your organization may benefit from tracking: Artificial Intelligence Cloud Integration Enhanced Data Privacy Security Personalized Healthcare Before discussing each trend in detail, it’s important to acknowledge the role of these technologies.

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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. Decide how to address each of those elements to get your organization back on track.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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? An organization has, for example, 20 volunteers, and they want to track the hours contributed, the impact on programs, and so forth.

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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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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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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

From tracking donations and expenditures, the success or failure of fund-raising events, staff protocols and effectiveness, lists of donors large and small and so much more, the organization that shirks information management does so at their own peril. For many non-profits, data crunching is everything.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. 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.

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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. Tracking for Impact and Learning. While technical topics such data and measurement processes emerged, so did a lot culture change issues. Data Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Did you use any “real time” tracking of your tweets and make any adjustments along the way? 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).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. 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. Our expectations around results are powerful.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Track data for your marketing campaigns during these special events to determine which messages are most effective for driving donations. 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.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

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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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. Use your CRM to: Track supporter interactions and giving history.

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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. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

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? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Are you required to measure?

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere. Compliant reporting.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

While most undergraduate programs cover the basics of accounting, the practices of a nonprofit bring a new level of complexity to the art of numbers and reporting. Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose.

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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

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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

But before we get too far into the report details, let’s start with a simple definition. Let’s take a look at a few of the key findings from the second nonprofit content marketing benchmark report – produced by Content Marketing Institute and Blackbaud – Nonprofit Content Marketing 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

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. You need a process for tracking volunteer hours, as this information is useful to funders, and you might want to build in incentives for volunteers who volunteer a certain number of hours.

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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. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were one of the foundation professionals who joined us this year in Nashville, you are hopefully well into your planning for how to put some of what you learned to use; I’m also hoping you enjoy this little refresher on what I consider to be some of the finer takeaways from our foundations track. What is impact, and why does it matter?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

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. By using a CRM’s fundraising reporting tools, you can compile effective reports that help you understand and document your research into your donor base.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

When it comes to your organization's Facebook page, you've probably already been doing a good job at tracking your number of fans; it's right there on your fan page for everyone to see! To whet your appetite for the full report, here's a great peek at the charts regarding Facebook page churn:

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. By tracking attrition rate by level, you can see which levels and which efforts have been most successful. Count of Constituents Who Had a Gift Last Year].

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Metrics Donor Fundraising Retention 42

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Finance Director Major Gift Contributions KEEP COSTS LOW Optimize major gift engagement efficiently with Neon CRM’s donor tracking and relationship management​​. Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Use Neon CRM’s reporting and analytics for effective management of government grants​​.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. It’s totally free, really comprehensive and easy to install.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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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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