Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to acquisition, we all know that metrics matter. However, most nonprofits don’t know which metrics to look at —or what to do with that information once they have it. . This is especially true if you aren’t sure which numbers or metrics you should review. I recommend looking at three key metrics. .

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Members of this team review fundraising metrics , such as: Which recurring donors have upcoming credit card expirations, in order to stay ahead of lapsed recurring gifts. They’ll look at metrics on missing donor data, address updates, and donor actions. Senior Vice President of Marketing.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. i We anticipate a steady increase in organizations sharing demographic information as a result of our recently launched Demographics via Candid campaign.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Price : Depends on usage, starts at $70 – Tableau Pricing for Teams & Organizations. Price: Starts at $9.99 – Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Organizations sent an average of five emails around Giving Tuesday 2020 as well as in 2019, with email volume declining by 10%. . Over the years, nonprofit organizations have matured their ads programs quite a bit. On to the goods! .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

A nonprofit Board of Directors has 2 essential financial responsibilities: Ensure assets are protected and used to support the organization’s charitable purpose in compliance with regulations and standards. What is the trend of revenue, expense and other activities? How do these trends compare to expectations?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The world of social media is constantly evolving, and understanding social SEO is imperative for your nonprofit to make the most of organic content. Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Twitt(url)y.

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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. Is the clear jump after 2010 due to the more inclusive language in the survey question, or to increased staffing levels at organizations?

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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. Do you need to a monthly trend? Step B: Identify the comparison. If you can see the snapshot and learn, it is useless. (2) 2) Give Context.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

They’re organized, actionable and tell a complete story of how you’re going to achieve your goals. Study Past Fundraising Trends. To do this break out a spreadsheet and create a complete list of all fundraising activities you organized in the previous year, as well as any other sources of income. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. Having specialists in-house means we’re always monitoring trends and looking for opportunities. Please tell us if you know of one! Pinterest has only been around for short time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

One participant on my Facebook page, Maggie Leifer McGary discovered this as well about her nonprofit's fan page (check out her case study ) While it is possible to go back and download an export of daily metrics from the Facebook insights tool from the beginning, it can be a huge pain. I look at the following metrics: Total Interactions.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

A few of the many reasons we must diminish donor attrition include: Attrition costs our organizations billions of dollars and effort. Thanks to a study of more than 250 organizations, Craver and his collaborators have introduced a framework for boosting retention and the lifetime value of donors. It undermines the sector as a whole.

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Track Donor Retention Metrics 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Twitt(url)y. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Share news, video, photos, stories and what ever else makes sense for your organization. Facebook is an outpost, but your main web site should provide people with added value and ways to connect with your organization. Total Interactions - The total interactions metric captures all of the feedback Pages receive from Facebook users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Lagging indicators -.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Well-organized data provides a clear framework for analyzing information, making it easier to create intuitive data visualizations.

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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. Defined Audience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Indeed, for many organizations, events are the only opportunity to interact with constituents, donors, and other stakeholders face-to-face. As with any initiative, goals and objectives should be clear, measurable, and aligned with the organization’s strategy and mission. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. "If you listen closely, you can pick up on trends and ideas that can really help your outreach and communication efforts." This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Or even for your personal role in the organization. In order to move the needle on your fundraising performance, it’s important to understand the sector and how your organization compares. The newest addition to organizations’ cloud services ecosystems is document storage. Even if you’re not the CEO.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Newsletters with industry trends hit your inbox almost every day. From monthly budgets to a roster of event attendees, it’s wonderful to be able to see your data organized clearly in neat rows. Looking at numbers over time makes it easy to identify historical trends, such as increases in applications from new nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

The eighth annual Blackbaud Target Analytics donorCentrics Sustainer Summit brought together 36 of the nation’s large national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020 and 2021. .

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Donor management refers to the strategies and processes a nonprofit organization uses to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors. Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? They may research the organization, read testimonials and reviews, and compare it to other similar organizations.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Speaking of investment, don’t depend on Susan to remember to update her new, expired, or lost credit card information with your organization. Organizing an event for the jet-setting type? Once you’ve done this, you can then organize your outreach campaign plan, prioritize your resource allocation, and set smarter goals.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

You could use the virtual event ideas below as inspiration for peer-to-peer challenges, or you can simply engage your donors to reach out to their friends on behalf of your organization. Afterward, have a live-stream to celebrate your participants and give them the ability to connect with each other and hear from someone at your organization.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2017

I used to believe that online average gift size was a vanity metric. It made for interesting tweets and blog post headlines about online giving trends, but it wasn’t very useful. Over time I’ve learned to love the online average gift size metric. Compare your own online median gift size trends to the chart above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Tell me about your dashboard in the comments – and if you’re willing to take a screen capture or two, your organization’s dashboard could be featured on this blog! Google Analytics , with its robust dashboard system displaying key web site metrics, is another example. 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

The seventh annual donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit brought together, via webinar, 31 of the nation’s largest national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020.

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Retention Gift Conversation Rate 51

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The Nonprofit Guide to Optimizing Website Traffic for Maximum Impact A website serves as the digital face and gateway for any nonprofit organization. Organic traffic refers to visitors who find your website via unpaid search results, mainly through search engines like Google. It supports your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization. We’re so busy doing the work that we forget to stop, track what we’re doing, and share it with others so that they can engage in the organization. Does that make sense?

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

With the growing trend of social features in game design and in web services, there has been a growing buzz around such motivational systems. Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Together, these elements let people know what your organization is all about and convince them that they need to be involved and donate money. Pick one tiny piece of your work and tell that story, focusing on the lives that were changed because of your organization. The key to Facebook is to post content your audience wants to see.

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