Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 3) Kenyan data from the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is very unique in that 42% of Kenyan donors say the prefer to give cash and 26% prefer to give via mobile payment.

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! So here’s your action item: If your organization hasn’t already, save any existing UA data before this date for historical tracking! We’ll wait. Ok, back with us?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 3, 2023

End of year giving trends Giving Tuesday vs December 31 Maximizing both Giving Tuesday and Decemeber 31 End of year giving trends Giving has been declining since 2022, so year-end fundraising can be a great opportunity to raise more for your organization and hopefully recover some lapsed donors!

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space. It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fortunately, with data, we can better understand members’ behavior and which marketing channel is most effective to reach our members. This is how you organize and describe your data. If you don’t tag your data accurately, it will be difficult to actually see what is going on. Easy Access to All Data. Sales are instant.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related. This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Candid

JUNE 29, 2023

private and community foundations to understand recent grantmaking trends and forecast where giving is headed. Overall foundation giving from 2021 to 2022 increased by 3% Among the 557 survey respondents who provided funding data for fiscal year end (FYE) 2021 and 2022, cumulative giving increased from $25.3 philanthropy?

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Read this blog to learn more about how these nonprofits are addressing the issues facing workers today by filling gaps left by traditional labor unions , and find out what Candid’s data says about philanthropic support for this growing movement. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. million to $35.6 Source: Foundation 1000.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

private and community foundations to understand recent giving trends and forecast where giving is headed. [ 1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. Looking ahead: 2022 trends ? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

When reporting on these numbers try breaking it down into small digestible chunks of data that are easy to interpret. Once you’ve done a side-by-side comparison of the first half of the year, it’s time to look to the future. 3) Past Trends. What’s Your Projected Income? Advantages and Obstacles.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 18, 2022

As the internet becomes more and more part of our daily lives, it’s important for nonprofits to keep up with this trend. You get better data and reporting. Since online fundraising automates your process you have immediate access to your data. You can learn more and run comparisons here. The post Why Online Fundraising?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The result is a refreshed site that gives a more complete picture of past funding and allows for stronger comparisons over time. . We focused on two main goals in making this expanded data and information on Candid’s racial equity page freely available. this site should note that data for more recent years is incomplete.?There

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll delve into several common concerns—such as the challenges of data comparison, the absence of readily available reports, and the distinction between the free and premium versions—as well as explore the importance of transparency in GA4 to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the data insights provided.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2014

Idealist Consulting has a new, free Email Service Providers Comparison Report , an in-depth comparison of 13 of the most common platforms. Open diversity data is an effort to make the diversity data collected by companies publicly available. Trying to decide on an email service? Want to combat childhood hunger?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. Step 3: Delete Data You Don’t Need. Time Series Comparisons. Step 2: Use Color To Emphasize.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ease of use : The best dashboards are easy to use, even for those who don’t have a lot of experience with data. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track. Website : Looker.com – Google Cloud Rebrands Data Studio As “Looker Studio” What is it ?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before we get into specifics, some business about how we looked at this data: because Giving Tuesday jumps around, we can’t just look at December revenue year over year and keep things apples to apples. We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. EOY was up, up, up! .

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

They use donor data to deduplicate customer records, which ensures you have all the information to build a relationship with a donor in one place. They may also receive payout reports or other data from different teams to incorporate and track within a database. See Trends in Fundraising Metrics From 4,800+ Nonprofits.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. .

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Is TikTok or Instagram a true search engine in comparison to Google? According to Google’s internal data in 2022, around 40% of Gen Z prefers using TikTok and Instagram for search over Google. 4 Data-Driven Decisions: Social SEO-savvy organizations dive straight into the data pool. The short answer is “no.”

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Taking time to read spreadsheets or reports full of data can be time consuming and overwhelming. It’s really important to only do an apples to apples comparison here. This has been the industry trend for the last several years. If your organization is following this trend, let’s look at what you can do to hopefully reverse it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2013

24th. Will nonprofits follow that trend? The report will be based on data and responses collected from this sector-wide survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W5P8NKH. The results will provide a comparison as to where to you stand among your peers and the nonprofit sector as a whole. • Why should you participate?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. With that in mind, it’s important to base strategic fundraising and communication decisions on real data, not anecdotal evidence.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Changing marketing tactics to keep up with shifting trends and attitudes can be a full-time job, which is where crash courses like this article can help. Emails are also direct marketing, but the sheer number of emails received throughout the day can make them feel less meaningful in comparison to a few personalized letters. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. Great data visualizations don’t necessarily require an expensive software package or a programmer on staff. If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart. Low budget?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. And going back to retroactively enter data is a huge time-consuming headache. Your Donor Management system helps you identify potential major donors and spot trends in giving.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research. When we look at the YOY data above, we see quite a bit of variance in this ratio over the three years, and no distinguishible pattern (trend).

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Care2

APRIL 30, 2014

Follower Data: This has information about your followers’ interests, location, gender, among other insights; TweetStats : Graph your stats by tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline, and reply stats. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Your organization can also use this tool to analyze your competitors in the space.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. Research Questions. Research Questions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

GrantStation polls organizations on the status of their grantseeking in order to provide the nonprofit sector with a vivid, up-to-date snapshot of grantseeking today, and you can help the grantseeking community stay on top of trends through your participation. Can you help us make the Spring 2014 State of Grantseeking survey a success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. Try avoid fragmenting your data by having to scroll. So think about a series of data that tells the story. What do you need to compare the data to?

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Analyze the numbers for them and summarize trends with a brief narrative or visual, dashboard-style presentation. Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. Your audience is busy and will appreciate reports that save them time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

” Or a variation – What’s the cutting edge on social media , mobile , or data ? What’s the latest impact of new technologies on society? Recently, apps that take short snippets of video – like Vine and Instagram have been soaring in popularity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Different views of donor data for different audiences. Mobile access to data. Enhanced data security. An all-new and more open API (application programming interface), which means that web developers and a charity's own IT team can get data in and out of the system much more easily.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. In fact, cloud migration is currently one of the biggest trends in nonprofit technology.

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