Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Mastering online user experience and messaging. Track your own data.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

Social media managers and communications professionals across industries are also reconsidering how they use—or don’t use—Twitter. Assess your goals for the platform, re-evaluate why you’re there, and decide if it still makes sense to actively use your Twitter account. Does Twitter help us achieve those?

Government 50

Government Twitter Social Media New York 50

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tell beneficiaries about mechanisms already in place and share your existing evaluation reports with beneficiaries. Prioritize internal accountability and training field staff. Emphasizing internal accountability (to the mission, core values, etc.) Encourage reciprocal donor communication. Don’t make this simple mistake!

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Public Build Malawi Asia 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image.

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Measure Social Media Media Metrics 115

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Interrogating how legacy social media platforms and their harmful content policies impact nonprofit communications, organizing, and fundraising can lead us to prioritize equity and safety when moving to new platforms—or choosing to stay on existing ones. Large audience and engagement numbers are not the only metric of social media success.

Social Media 92

Social Media Media Strategy Social 92

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Before sitting down to work on your social media strategy, evaluate what kind of capacity you already have in your network.

Social Media 190

Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

How do you communicate with them? 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. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. .

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

You can create a communications cadence to reach out to these supporters, help them build stronger connections to your mission, and ultimately send them a personalized donation request based on their giving capacity and past donation amounts. Design and save direct mail communication documents like solicitations and acknowledgments.

Profile 91

Profile Software Nonprofit Donor 91

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders. Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Are you credible? Social media and Web 2.0 I know I would.

Communication 57

Communication Online DC Wiki 57

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Annual giving campaigns: Each year, some companies organize internal fundraising campaigns to support a specific nonprofit project. Evaluating your mission statement: Your company’s mission statement reflects its purpose and goals, and can even relate to some nonprofit causes.

Community 52

Community Giving Companies Gift 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. Set Program Goals & Metrics. Report Out.

Measure 50

Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

UpGlo was able to support its rapid growth as an organization by enhancing its communications methods with GoToMeeting from LogMeIn (formerly Citrix). Meghan Lewit is Upwardly Global's senior associate for marketing communications. This called for more effective communication technology." UpGlo Continues to Grow.

Skills 52

Skills Global Bosnia San Francisco 52

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up.

Social Media 102

Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. What metrics will you be evaluated against? What does success look like in your role? Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. What metrics will you be evaluated against? What does success look like in your role? Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. What metrics will you be evaluated against? What does success look like in your role? Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

How do we develop sustainable funding for community health programing? And with a goal as ambitious and nebulous as elevating community well-being, how do we evaluate success? Join Blackbaud and Accordant for the Advancing Community Health Webinar Series. Be accountable to your internal and external stakeholders.

Community 49

Community Effective Create New Jersey 49

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

Identify the audience or community you want to engage. This includes thinking about who you are already communicating with and how, as well as what groups you want to start communicating with who you currently aren’t including. This is really helpful in order to evaluate the appropriate tools for your work.

Social Media 102

Social Media Process Media Social 102

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. Think of your fundraising plan as both a communications calendar and a strategic plan. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Ray: We had six or seven disparate data systems that made it difficult to impossible to effectively communicate with constituents and to market to them so we could grow our organization. This was the perfect opportunity to evaluate our processes and technology. Question: What started your digital transformation journey?

Digital 29

Digital New York Nonprofit Database 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But, for the most part, nonprofit dashboard reports, if they are measuring the right metrics, are useful tools. An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . Were there any institutional concerns internally?

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Public Indianapolis Museum Organization 94

Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices.

Seattle 52

Seattle Global Data Metrics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. However, in an attempt to communicate mission success in borrowed terms, we have made it more difficult to explain the critical connection between financials, fundraising, and mission delivery. How did we get here? Tweet this.

Measure 31

Measure ROI Organization Ratio 31

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Marketing staff: Communication teams leverage CSR software to craft CSR-related messaging, create reports, and engage with external stakeholders, including the media and the public. They allow organizations to collect data related to CSR initiatives, measure progress toward goals, and generate reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Software 52

Software Business Guide Companies 52

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Communicate a clear story. Grants offer hospitals a tangible, powerful way to demonstrate their community support. A transparent grantmaking process further builds trust with community leaders. On its surface, granting funds to community nonprofits may seem simple. Best-in-class community grantmaking programs have….

Community 35

Community Grant Foundation Homeless 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions. delivered).

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Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

And it’s easy to do the predictive math based on either internal experience (ideal) or publicly available industry benchmarks (we have a list of the latest studies at www.frogloop.com/benchmarks.). Ensuring that your whole team - often including the board - is invested in, and fully understanding, the key performance metrics involved.

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email Fundraising Rate ROI 77

Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2018

In spite of the fact that both departments rely on excellent communications to achieve their desired outcomes, there is little to no work product developed or created in common. They routinely survey physicians, patients, employees, and community members on a variety of issues. If you already have a program, study it carefully.

Collaboration 27

Collaboration Develop Marketing ROI 27

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

as well as keeping an in-depth log of all past interactions with that supporter, whether it’s communications, donations made, or events attended. Internal operations management. Reporting and analytics functionality includes tracking key metrics and creating custom reports with advanced data visualization capabilities.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Investment.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats?

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Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

We worked with Alia when she was at Donordigital on videos with Amnesty International. So while we don’t yet have all the metrics we need to show that video will actually improve/increase fundraising online, we know that this is the content people are gravitating towards. Join the Video Bandwagon [.]

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Video YouTube FAQ Metrics 40

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Instead, establishing a foundation of performance metrics and prioritizing strategy development can allow fundraisers to be more effective and spend more time on the things they do best. Display metrics for fundraising goal amounts, donations raised to date, and progress toward goals. That’s 800 hours times 1.25 Why do this?

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Product Data Metrics Knowledge Worker 83

Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

In the case of the above grassroots fundraiser, lots of international press easily verified the fund’s legitimacy. Communicating accountability, responsibility, and impact with the general public should be a priority for any organization. Charity Navigator is the world’s largest independent charity evaluator and rater.

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Public Practice Build Donor 90

sgEngage

MAY 18, 2023

Research & reporting: Collecting and analyzing data on internal and external factors affecting enrollment, student success, and the school’s image to inform decision-making. This could include targeted outreach campaigns, social media and content marketing, recruitment events, and personalized communications.

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Management Student Demographics Retention 52

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

Here are my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Invest in evaluation tools. It’s simply a tool.

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Digital Marketing Fundraising Strategy 95