Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Let’s review the key steps of finding major donor prospects, building relationships, and retaining their support for the long term: 1. Create a gift range chart. What is a major gift?

Gift 97

Gift Raise Guide Relationship 97

Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving. Review your donor demographics. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Review your donor demographics.

Donation 52

Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

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 assign several team members to assess the extent of the attack and summarize their findings into a clear report. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

Personalization – The study shows that Pros with poor member retention in the past year tend to report worse member data. Moving to a modern AMS system will allow you to easily keep member data updated and secure as well as give you a complete view of your member data through reports and dashboards. Review your governance model.

Associations 78

Associations Studies Trend Data 78

sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Lists in Your Grant Reporting. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Charts make it easy to make sense of a lot of data by creating context.

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Chart Report Data Grant 74

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

Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

Charitable Giving Report Quiz : The Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic released the 5 th annual Charitable Giving Report at the beginning of the year. You may have already read the report, but a few months later, do you remember everything that was in the report? Toolkit utilizing the findings in Giving USA.

Resource 48

Resource Blackbaud Chart Retention 48

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status. 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.

Rate 35

Rate System Management Analysis 35

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

Oftentimes, stakeholders are so far removed from the budget and the balance sheet that they may have no clue how the organization is doing, or they only give the financial statements a cursory review without going deeper. Calculate metrics from the balance sheet. Share metrics from the income statement. Enumerate program costs.

Metrics 37

Metrics Nonprofit Empowerment Picture 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

This prompted a question from Alison Carlson (Global Giving’s “Un Marketing Manager&# ) – Should you tie results to job performance review if staff person is using their personal account? The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment.

Measure 98

Measure Social Media Media Social 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. Review your members’ dues and charges, and alert them when they have overdue payments. Compliant reporting. Automate your reporting to save your organization time and energy.

Org 80

Org Raise Tools Help 80

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? They formulate a set of rough metrics and hypotheses, spend the week running small tests, and then convene at the end of the week to summarize what they have learned. The small experiments aren’t designed to undergo academic peer review. Analytics reports don’t replace meetings.

Data 31

Data Help Analytics Test 31

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. Some interesting questions that popped up looking at this chart: Does this mean that in the beginning we get insight but not $, and in the end we get $$ but not insight?

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

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.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2013

Understanding the strategic plan and the course it is charting for the organization’s future. Take the time to read the plan, think about the plan and understand the key metrics that will be used to show progress against the plan. Review the goals set in place by the board and the CEO working together.

Government 39

Government Metrics Chart Review 39

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). For a more in-depth Analytics review, we might also establish some Goal Tracking to measure conversions on the website via email sign-up and/or donations.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

It serves as your voice when grant funders are reviewing proposals, and it can decide whether you secure the grant or not. Cover letter: Your cover letter is the first impression you make on the grant review committee. Include big accomplishments and details that will help persuade the reviewers of the success of your work.

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Proposal Grant Template Guide 52

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. Whether your grantmaking organization is managing one funding program or a dozen, the right grants management software can save you time and improve compliance through streamlined processes, intuitive reporting, and built-in due diligence.

Grant 72

Grant Software Management Application 72

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I review both fundraising and friendraising techniques and how to take them, to varying levels, online – from email solicitations and events to social media and websites. Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. The cocktail party had an auction and a raffle. Send a box (total).

Campaign 65

Campaign New York City Community Build 65

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Many nonprofit professionals greet the annual reporting process with apprehension. This is because nonprofit annual reports have a bad reputation. However, you don’t need to dread the creation of your annual report! This post is designed to guide your organization through the nonprofit annual report creation process.

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Template Report Rhode Island Guide 80

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. Guides, not report cards. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign.

Facebook 101

Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You run a report, you run a query, and you’re immediately second-guessing, or you want to start let’s say a new donor welcome series, and you don’t have a lot of confidence that your data is actually going to be able to serve up just new donors. She runs some reports. Here are the metrics. We really want to.”

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Technology Video Nonprofit System 100

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2010

GOALS & METRICS – Last year seems like an eternity ago, I know, but take an hour to go back, run reports and review how you did last year. Keep an eye on these metrics each week, so you can correct your communications and tactics as needed. Take a moment and chart out your communication plan for each audience.

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Mail Metrics Registration Voice 32

Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe get interrupted, or just want to review the content, don’t worry. We’ll get you the slides, the recording, and you can review all that content later on. You saw the bar chart. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. How did we report to them?

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 107