Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Their retention rate. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Your online donor retention rate. Review your donor demographics.

Donation 52

Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you have a goal to bring in an additional $20,000 in unrestricted funding this year, create a chart on your dashboard that shows your progress, so you see it every time you open your fund accounting system.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 82

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. For example, if your retention rate for your major gift program is low, you might consider revamping your major donor stewardship and appreciation program.

Gift 98

Gift Raise Guide Relationship 98

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. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part I , I covered rating choice “Level 1,” and how this signifies that an organization does not have a formalized prospect management system in place. Nonprofit Technology analysis campaign fundraising Major Giving metrics prospect management prospecting reporting'

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Rate System Management Analysis 35

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you have a goal to bring in an additional $20,000 in unrestricted funding this year, create a chart on your dashboard that shows your progress, so you see it every time you open your fund accounting system.

Foundation 80

Foundation Build Fund Review 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Donor stewardship leads to better retention rates and better fundraising results down the line. The plan also incorporates a timeline chart depicting when each goal is projected to be completed by.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you have a goal to bring in an additional $20,000 in unrestricted funding this year, create a chart on your dashboard that shows your progress, so you see it every time you open your fund accounting system.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Study email subject lines and opening sentences that motivate instant open rates. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll discuss the following six concrete steps your nonprofit can take to boost revenue and grow your organization: Track your organization’s retention rate. Track your organization’s retention rate. Once you have your starting point, you can focus on improving your own rate over time.

Donation 64

Donation Strategy Retention Rate 64

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.

Report 56

Report Data Tools Stats 56

Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. One tactic that has been successful for the nonprofit CARE is to provide their donors with two simple pie charts that illustrate how funds raised are allocated below the credit card donation form. Tell people what you want them to do quickly.

Studies 78

Studies Online Fundraising Nonprofit 78

NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Segmenting your lists will lead to more targeted messaging and is proven to boost response rates and help to reduce unsubscribes. Using segmentation can drastically improve your response rates, increase the value of your communications for the recipient, help reduce unsubscribes, and prevent list fatigue. Additional Tips.

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email Marketing Mail Metrics 149

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While I would re-order some of the questions and logic to be more results or outcome-based vs data-centric, there are some excellent flow charts for the sense-making piece of using data. I like the worksheet that allows you rate the usefulness and ease of collection for proposed metrics to collect.

Data 111

Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Measure all fundraising metrics. No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more!

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 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

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

Despite the fact that online-acquired donors give higher gifts both initially and over time, they renew at lower rates overall. While retention rates have been lower, there are opportunities and questions we still need to address. I am, of course, NOT advocating that we stop fundraising online.

Attention 36

Attention Metrics Online Fundraising 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” But then looked at the conversion rate for the video it was a zero! KD Paine reminded us again that we become what we measure so choose wisely. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time.

Measure 98

Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. For example, if you see a high bounce rate on your donation page, you may rethink the donation form you’re using and switch it out for one that’s more user-friendly.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Where do you look for standard metrics? Does anyone?

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Click Through Rate (CTR). Email Opt-In Rate. Once you select the Channels tab it will bring up a chart showing your organic traffic: Selecting the Landing Page dimension will filter data to show individual page performance. Once in the search analytics dashboard check the Clicks and CTR metrics and then filter by Pages.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

People who leave the site (bounce rate). see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). We like to confirm that we were able to decrease the bounce rate, increase the percentage of returning visits and/or increase the time spent on the site. Time spent on the site. Number of pages viewed per visit.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State's obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America's waistline has ballooned in since 1987. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

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.

Business 44

Business North America Metrics Analysis 44

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Key metrics to explore: . Conversion rate to second gift (after a follow-up solicitation is left). We developed the following chart to help our organization track and evaluate the donor kits’ impact on giving: . Conversion rate to second gift (after a follow-up solicitation is left). Increase .

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Gift Donor Foundation Rate 22

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2011

You can see the pages/visit, time on site and bounce rate for each area. If you are surprised to find traffic from a certain area, and see that people from that area have a high bounce rate & few pages per visit, then perhaps you can think of a way to better serve that audience with targeted content. (Be pages per visitor.

Analytics 30

Analytics Google Language Picture 30

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

“Its reassuring that despite the economic downturn most of the metrics they looked at, including average gift size, were flat or up compared to 2007,” said Robert Weiner, who provides technology consulting to nonprofit organizations. While donors continued to donate money, the average gift was smaller.

Convio 31

Convio Benchmark Studies Social Media 31

sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Based on prospects’ giving capacity and behavior, target gift ranges can drastically improve the rate and size of major gifts. Follow up regularly with photos, charts, and thank-you notes from those who have benefited from your organization’s social good assistance. Four Questions to Ask Your Team. Register now.

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Gift Program Build Fundraising 81

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Decrease bounce rate by 50% for important pages like your homepage or donation page. . Assign relevant metrics to each goal. For example, you might track donation page conversions, homepage bounce rate, or overall website traffic. Check in on these metrics regularly as you carry out your strategy. . Interactive charts.

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Content Strategy Create Websites 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Our data might be the most metrically driven data you’ve seen. That’s right, we are metrics freaks. For example, if you get higher conversion rate, you go out for ice cream (or shaved ice if you’re in Hawaii). Visual Humor: Don’t just use numbers, bar charts, and graphs.

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Measure Fun Hawaii Metrics 97

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. Its pretty commonplace for a nonprofit to send a "thanks for the add" comment to their friends profiles. Which features are in the profiles?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. Its pretty commonplace for a nonprofit to send a "thanks for the add" comment to their friends profiles. Which features are in the profiles?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

Measure 50

Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign. How many by when? Guides, not report cards.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101