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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

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Your board is already asking questions about whether you’ll hit the projected amount you’ll need to break ground. They generally last between two and three years, sometimes longer, and consist of these phases: Pre-planning - 3-12 months: This is when you’ll establish your campaign’s objectives and goal.

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3 Steps to Write a Stellar Nonprofit Development Plan

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Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. This way, everyone in your organization will be on the same page about what needs to be done during the fundraising phase of your development plan.

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. Denial: You can’t measure social media! Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 2a: Analytics Data as User Research

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It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Research Questions. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data).

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

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But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so use that chat box, use the question box, you can use either of those, we would love to hear from you. But you’re also welcome to just pop a question into the chat anytime. I want to make sure you get your questions answered along the way. ” .

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How Networked Nonprofit Use Facebook SMARTly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. Ask different kinds of questions.

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Does Your Nonprofit Organization Have Measurement Malaise?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can you be an effective grassroots nonprofit organization in 21st century without a robust integrated social media and mobile strategy and measurement strategy? Idealware Study. The Idealware survey asked participants if they measure results from Facebook.

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