sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

These are also good for designing reports. (1) This requires some discipline to think long and hard about what data is most useful to gain an understanding. A nonprofit recently shared their social media metrics spreadsheet with me and it was 150 rows of data that require constant scrolling. Do you need to a monthly trend?

Design 116

Design Chart Measure Metrics 116

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.

Campaign 98

Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. In case you missed our webinar, feel free to watch it here and learn how to create annual reports that rock! How does your organization solve that problem? Keep this EXTREMELY clear and simple!

Report 98

Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 98

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.

Metrics 87

Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. 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.

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

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. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. These factors explain and perpetuate the problem of board diversity.”.

Arizona 40

Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue. "    He talked about different categories of metrics for the web: 1)   Types of visitors:   You have to get inside your customer's heads and what is important to them. 

Marketing 50

Marketing Measure Metrics Hunger 50

NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

Data 100

Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics.

Business 44

Business North America Metrics Analysis 44

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Writing a good grant proposal requires attention to detail, strategic thinking, and a compelling solution to a problem. Statement of need: Dive deep into the problem your nonprofit is trying to solve with grant funding. Outline how your program can continue long-term to help the problem at hand. Research previous winners.

Proposal 52

Proposal Grant Template Guide 52

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome? How might you measure it?

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Key metrics to explore: . We developed the following chart to help our organization track and evaluate the donor kits’ impact on giving: . What do you think is the primary problem in healthcare in our community? _. My name listed in Foundation publications (like Annual Report or newsletter) . Women’s Health .

Gift 22

Gift Donor Foundation Rate 22

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. So I am intimately acquainted with the problem that Foundation Center programmers are trying to solve with their machine learning approach. Also, Strive Partnership measured the partners!

Data 36

Data Conference Report Proposal 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

Measure 96

Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The problem is that data everywhere! 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.

Measure 115

Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate. It visually helps the reader grasp the extent of the problem.

Storytelling 82

Storytelling Impact Arts Nonprofit 82

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So if you get interrupted, or you have to bounce early, no problem. ” If you’re not moving for the right reasons, it’s a problem because moving is expensive, it’s time-consuming, and it takes a lot of brainpower. She runs some reports. You’ll get all those goodies. So send in your chats.

Technology 106

Technology Video Nonprofit System 106

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. No shame in failing.”

Reflection 97

Reflection Social Measure Case Study 97

Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. But now, here’s the problem. But the problem was, he had never done that before. You saw the bar chart. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. So this is a math problem. We want to scale.”

Money 111

Money Video Fundraising Gift 111