Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer “solutions&# for tracking, measuring, and even “engaging&# with your community online. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

The average churn rate in 2010 for nonprofits in our research sample was 14%. To whet your appetite for the full report, here's a great peek at the charts regarding Facebook page churn: You can download the complete Facebook eBenchmarks Extra from, where else, our Facebook page!

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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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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These are but a sample of the decisions that nonprofits need to make when entering into a budgetary process. Program Director Corporate Sponsorships INCREASE IMPACT Develop targeted pitches to align corporate sponsor interests with nonprofit goals for mutual benefit.

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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

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. Be clear on discipline measures and reasons for dismissal. Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. Given the answers to 1-4 of our example, some of the metrics we could use to measure our success and ROI include: volunteer participation, online “chatter,&# and program growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# Qriously could be used to test different messages and groups to measure where responses are strongest. Campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

The original worksheet was developed from recommendations from the Spin Project and the " Smart Chart " developed by Spitfire Strategies.) Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. Step 5: Measure Success. Yep, that is the fun part. Step 4: Go Offline.

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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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Starting during the weekend of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and #GivingTuesday in 2016, Gmail introduced a new method for measuring the quality of engagement when it comes to email deliverability from the email sender to determine if an email should be delivered to an inbox, known as the inbox placement rate. Make it personal.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Possible questions include the following (*also see the end of this article for a sample survey): a. There are two key measures of the success of the Donor Welcome Kit: . We developed the following chart to help our organization track and evaluate the donor kits’ impact on giving: . Sample survey: . a stress ball). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Let's Fondle The Tools the Right Way Chris Brogan's A Sample Social Media Toolkit describes a few sample tools and what they can be used to accomplish. asks Rich Reeder. Her selection criteria.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. Let’s use that Outcomes-Based Framework mentioned at the beginning and work through a sample problem. Tangible and measurable parameters are important for leveraging AI. How Will AI Help Your Team?

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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

MAY 24, 2022

Make a pie chart of your funding sources. I like Excel for pie charts because it’s super easy to use. Sample Revenue Stream for a Small Nonprofit Circling back now to pie charts and numbers, here’s a sample table of revenue estimates for a small nonprofit, broken down by percent of the overall fundraising pie.

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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. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. Good images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

Alexandra gave an overview of the methodology offered by her company, Vision Critical , and some insights they have learned from combining a survey data from large sample with appending actual social media usage. Our sample was combined US and Canada populations). Good research starts with hypothesis generation.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

" This helped us define a list of measurable goals, and also allowed us to define exactly how those goals would be tracked. Giving these tabs boring names can help too, as it will discourage people from accidentally navigating away from the pretty charts and potentially getting scared off.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Here’s a simple little chart where all you do is you just look at the next 10 years and you project what your revenue is going to be, all things being equal, based on how you’re fundraising and how your sales, etc., So I like to document a projected revenue gap between expenses and income over a 10-year period.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As such, adoption can be used as a currency , measuring the worth of your programs, services and opportunities. Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So nine, “How will you measure results?” And like you heard a couple times, I’m going to be sending out all those resources that Andy mentioned, that handout, the checklist, the sample questions. ” So I think there’s essentially two ways. Most people think of numbers. We served 8,800 meals this week.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. In this show, he’s joined by The Agitators’ Roger Craver, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward, True Sense Marketing’s Jeff Brooks, and Blackbaud’s Chuck Longfield and goes deeper into the topics that matter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Happy new year!

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now we’re seeing many Republican-dominated state legislatures advance restrictive and often racist measures that take power away from people to cast their vote. Then came the false cries of fraud and a refusal to accept the election results as legitimate. Community stories trickled up to national attention.

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