Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a nonprofit leader who wants advice on how to frame monthly gift asks to minimize accounting complications between restricted and unrestricted gifts: . Send a donor survey. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. Survey respondents were asked to rank skills have the greatest impact on a their professional success in the position they currently hold. Drives for results.

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Skills Leadership Mentoring Summary 137

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. The chart below highlights that upward trend. You can use our new Survey Analyzer to slice and dice it by state, sector, or organization size. And that you did.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. What is your process?

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

According to The Council of Nonprofits 2023 Nonprofit Workforce Survey , almost three quarters of nonprofits that completed the survey have current openings at their organization. Be sure to save those query results so they can be reused, or even use an export tool if you need to share it with other users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score. Why get good at Excel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

A simple online survey. We’ve become addicted to generating pretty charts and graphs, while taking any opportunity to play with any new (and especially free) social media measurement tool that we read about on blogs. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Exhibitions team.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. " Pew Research raw survey data now available – Looking for some data to help tell your organization's story? ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. I can’t help but wonder if their methods are similar to how VolunteerMatch measures its impact and results , although VolunteerMatch does not receive the same scale of foundation funding as nonprofits in this sample.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. While these questions aren’t always easy to answer, you can chunk it down: What is one of your organization’s goals? What’s an action you need to take to achieve your goal?

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Check out the details: Learn from 28 hand-selected sessions to give you the latest digital marketing + fundraising strategies that generate more results in less time. We recently conducted a survey of nonprofit professionals and found that your biggest challenges are growing fundraising with limited time + resources.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The questions we need to ask go beyond the immediate revenue numbers. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Analyzing the results. Let’s go back to the core questions we started with.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. This week’s installment of Research Friday looks at what the survey results tell us about nonprofit board engagement in tough times. So what does that mean for the board?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution. Support: There’s no one readily available to help answer your questions or fix something if you have an issue with the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Would you analyze surveys after tossing several shots of Tequilas? The National Sleep Foundation, a champion of sleep science and sleep health for individuals, undertook a comprehensive research study to answer the question of sufficient sleep and provides evidence-based guidelines on how much sleep you really need at each age.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 128

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. Send a survey if you don’t hear back. Allow supporters to get to know your team members and ask questions about your mission. Make one last phone call.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

I followed up with Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director) to learn more about how they went about this first very important first step for measuring social media – defining results. What questions did you ask? What prep did you do? What are our goals with social media?” “Who

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Money Question Raise Video 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Science has an answer.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

In a recent survey of NTEN:Change Journal readers, we learned that organizations are using an average of almost four different channels as part of their communications mix. In a recent survey of NTEN:Change readers, we learned that organizations are using an average of almost four different channels as part of their communications mix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. The primary research includes surveys, interviews, and observation. So it’s naturally contagious.

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Social Media Remix Research Bookmarking 96

NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Preference and Opinion – this is something that you can survey or poll your donors on, and collecting this information via an online portal is a great idea. You will also want to decide in advance how you will measure the overall results of your efforts. I’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, and ideas in the comments!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Her question stayed with me for a long time. Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. They exist not to be able to say, “My art is better than your art,” but to say, “My art impacted its audience in these intrinsic ways, let me show you a data chart on that.”.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The following example shows how improving retention rate by just 10% can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings for nonprofits. We recommend the following strategies: Cutting down on unnecessary questions. But asking too many questions provides more opportunities for supporters to abandon your page.

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Donation Strategy Retention Rate 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0 Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart. technologies.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2013

Here’s the first question, because I perceive the situation to be one way is that the truth? Peer-to-Peer Consumer Survey. For the past three years, Blackbaud and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council have conducted a peer-to-peer fundraising consumer survey. Here’s what I’ve learned from this questions: .

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. A total of 880 marketers took the survey. It looks like these marketers have the same questions you have. . Where do I start?

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Social Media Lesson Marketing Media 54

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. One in three. One in four.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

A first-of-its-kind, comprehensive national survey found that 86 percent of nonprofit board members in the United States are non-Hispanic whites. This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? The objective is the destination; the key results get you there. What is the experience of my staff?

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Nonprofit Adopt Chart Press 101

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. You should spend as much time and energy making your data, charts, and tables findable as you do making your reports and other content.

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Candid

JUNE 12, 2024

Every year, Candid fields the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. i The survey is an opportunity to obtain timely data before official figures are released by the IRS, and the results inform Giving USA ’s annual report on charitable giving. These foundations were excluded from the chart above.)

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Foundation Giving Award 91

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. You can also start with a Survey and ask for volunteers that way. Surveys and Interviews. Be creative with your card labels. Deliverables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. What are the results? Use of metrics to measure your results.

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