Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

I’ll share what I’ve learned from the big-picture analytics, insights from my deep dive into content, and how they inform my approach to our social media plan (which you’re welcome to borrow for your nonprofit). You also love a nice chart. Here is a peek behind the scenes into how Candid assesses our social media annually.

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 52

Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Remember to choose the communication channels your audience is already familiar with, and chart a customer journey that moves each prospect carefully down the sales funnel. Collect digital marketing KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics used to measure your digital marketing success.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Do you know what social media posts they like or share? Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

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. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. However, by studying your donor engagement metrics regularly, you can determine what makes online donors tick.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

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

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Lack of shared storage, inaccessible files, and the desire to avoid changing existing data platforms all worsen these existing data silo challenges. Additionally, this digital shift to increased data interoperability means less chart chasing and improved quality care. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 82

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2023

These check-ins are a great place to share updates happening with your organization—such as new grants or an unusual donation—and for them to share changes they are watching in legislation and regulations that might affect you. Your auditors will want to see your organizational chart, which is sometimes difficult to keep current.

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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. Cultivate major gifts Start the cultivation process by developing a concrete case for support that you can share with donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

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. Stare at your charts and graphs and numbers. 2) Give Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

The framework also works well as a benchmarking tool so a group of similar organizations working together as a movement can learn from one another. This makes easier to embrace a key principle of movement building “sharing and documenting practices” that Rachel Weidinger shared during her session at NTC last week.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 1: Plan to meet with your auditor bi-annually or quarterly to share updates. Fill them in on your highlights—new programs, funding opportunities, and challenges—and they can share regulations they are watching or new technology they are implementing. Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. Metrics for Movements.

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Design Marketing Metrics Measure 99

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

When there is a challenge to solve that involves multiple teams, is it easy to find and share data? While some nonprofits are highly evolved in this category, many organizations are struggling with the first step of identifying which metrics to collect. Do you have the information you need to guide your key strategic decisions?

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Digital Question Mentoring Michigan 116

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

i While the survey focuses on salary rather than total compensation (which is a more holistic way to look at the full take-home differences), it provides a helpful metric to use as a baseline. However, their responses are included in all other analyses. The post How do grantmaker CEO salaries compare with other staff?

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 105

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Many organizations struggle with the idea of ROI and metrics when it comes to social media because so much of it feels, well, untouchable. Our partnerships and current communication streams aren’t ones that would easily get the attention of or shared by that group of middle and high school students.

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ROI Case Study Metrics Student 135

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

These tools are especially useful for nonprofits and financial organizations whose brands rely on sharing metrics to deliver impact and value. Some focus their attention on traditional charting and graphing, but others delve into the world of geocharting, heatmaps, timelines, and more.

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Interaction Tools Data Flash 80

Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Implement procedures to asess metrics. Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z all share an interest in engaging with organizations through peer-to-peer fundraising. Be intimate with your data.

Social Media 52

Social Media Trend Storyboard Montana 52

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 1: Plan to meet with your auditor bi-annually or quarterly to share updates. Fill them in on your highlights—new programs, funding opportunities, and challenges—and they can share regulations they are watching or new technology they are implementing. Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

What does the visual look like? This past week, my Facebook insights chart of reach and engagement looked like a pregnant woman lying on her back or maybe a wide and steep mountain. What’s going on here? In fact, several posts received highest ever in the number of shares such as this one.

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Audience Social Media Content Media 107

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

This study of 6,300 organizations showed that those who shared more than just the basic 990 on GuideStar and earned their GuideStar Seal of Transparency earned more the following year. Many nonprofit leaders understand the benefits of transparency but don’t know how to share relevant information about their numbers.

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Metrics Nonprofit Empowerment Picture 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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Design Colorado Chart Storytelling 131

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

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

Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

They’re also ideal channels to deliver what the study shows are top benefits for members (see chart in tip number 1 above), including industry news and information, training, certifications, and networking. Loyalty metrics also remain strong, and younger and more diverse m embers are increasing their engagement. .

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Associations Studies Trend Data 78

Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

Gift range chart : Utilizing a gift range chart is a great way to created focused, goal-oriented campaigns. In the newest npEXPERTS eBook, 10 of the brightest minds from across the nonprofit sector share their unique perspectives to help you create a culture of philanthropy. Use this checklist to check in. Include a shareable.

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Resource Blackbaud Chart Retention 48

NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In doing so, you should think about the common needs and interests shared by the various segments. Most segmentation efforts are based upon three key factors: Demographics and Lifestyle – these are observable and traceable metrics such as location, age, region, marital status, etc. Also note that segmenting is an ongoing process.

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email Marketing Mail Metrics 149

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

We started this redesign process by asking you and ourselves one question: In 2016, what will matter most when sharing a nonprofit’s story? This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Turning snapshots into stories .

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Google Analytics – [link].

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

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.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I like the worksheet that allows you rate the usefulness and ease of collection for proposed metrics to collect. (The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Participants were concerned about lack of time and the next presentation shared how to get started with small steps. We all do a little work related reading in the morning, why not share that?”

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard. 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.

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Studies Online Fundraising Nonprofit 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. Well, the data is back, and we thought we’d share some of our most important findingsósuccess! The good folks at Idealware offered me a sneak peak of their new Facebook research – how could I resist?

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Facebook Research Advocacy Analytics 123

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.” They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 KD Paine shared many, many insights (check out the storify ). KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. Some Ways To Visual Your Data.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Measures of engagement include: On Twitter, people share your messages by retweeting you, recommending people follow you, and putting you on lists. On Facebook, people share your messages by liking them, commenting on them, or sharing them to their wall or via private messages. It provides little granular insight. FollowFriday.

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Social Media Media Social Measure 68