NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

With over 500 minutes (that’s 10 hrs) of free event fundraising consulting you’ll learn everything from how to get started with your first event to running effective multi-channel communications programs that increase fundraising performance. Improve Fundraising Performance with Insightful Reporting, Measurement and Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Set Program Goals & Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Over the past 5 years since I’ve been analyzing metrics and my content , I have a good list of the topics that do well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Step 5: Launch, measure, and optimize It is time to launch your communications campaign.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you’re not confident about your branding strategy, consider consulting with a nonprofit web design agency. Keep an eye on the following metrics for your site: Web traffic. This metric measures the overall visits to your site, helping you gauge the success of your outreach efforts. Traffic sources. Bounce rate.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan.

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2013

But now the question is: once your nonprofit has consistent and relevant prospect data at your disposal, what should you measure? With these above metrics in place you can also measure the differences between each capital campaign, or you can measure the results between a specific campaign and your on-going major gifts program.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. The 7 steps of measurement. What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset.

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Measure Network Empowerment United States 65

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Blackbaud Solutions Consultants Katie Turner and Katherine Liles will show you how much of Financial Edge NXT’s functionality can be completed with the push of a button. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? Let the Machines Work so the People Can Think!:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Inquire about affiliate marketing.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? This can range from them being consulted to owning the results.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. Useful metrics vary by organization and mission.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As a fundraising professional and nonprofit consultant working on a doctorate degree in business, I was curious about just how much a mission statement matters when it comes to nonprofit fundraising. from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. Successful organizations create a quantifiable performance evaluation using fundraising software to identify the top 3–4 metrics.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Making fundraising decisions based on that data is a little trickier, especially if you are not sure what to measure, why, and what to do with the results. Measuring for success at each stage. Finding the Metrics That Matter , at 12:30 p.m. Applying Fundraising Data to Your Healthcare Mission , Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 11:45 a.m.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. You calculate the campaign’s overall expenses (including consultants, events, communications, materials, staffing, etc.) Your ROI would be 900%.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2014

But the question those metrics beg is how the increase in volume is impacting email performance. Every one of the 20 cohorts measured in the report experienced positive growth in usable email file size. The total number of email recipients was up 72%. With so many more emails hitting our inboxes are we diluting the value of email?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Savvy organizations are using moves management systems to track important milestones for high touch prospects to measure how many you have, how much you hope to raise, and the distribution of stages to identify shortfalls/windfalls in funding. What do you want to measure? Does our current coding structure support these metrics?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Track donors’ engagement AI tools can help measure supporters’ feelings and opinions about your nonprofit by gathering data from surveys, polls, forms, and marketing engagement metrics like email opens or social media likes. You can use this information to identify trends and patterns in donor sentiment.

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Tools Donor Fundraising Survey 84

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

My face reddened as the realization sunk in that he wanted to know the impact of our program , not a bunch of surface metrics. From there I dug in to learn as much as I could about outcomes measurement and results from consultants, think tanks and other leaders in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Next, consider what audience learnings you can surface using your nonprofit’s marketing analytics, such as email engagement metrics, website traffic measures, and social media performance. As a first step, consult your nonprofit’s budget and determine how much you can afford to invest in rebranding.

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Nonprofit Audience Library Research 119

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. Combining anecdotes with metrics that illustrate the problem can invite donors to be a part of the solution. The problem with ratios.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Taking proactive measures. Good Survive is proactive Survive, and Steady state Survive is made up of the continual proactive measures leaders can take to ensure long-term stabilization. The book brings together more than 15 years of Homkes working directly with high-growth companies of all sizes and across a wide variety of industries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I now spend more of my time evaluating communications and digital projects so, I read with interest Lean Analytics , the book in the Lean Start up series on measuring what matters. This strikes me as a metric that would be easier to compute and apply for some projects or programs and a real bear for others.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

Would a data management plan like you suggest really improve those kinds of metrics? One important point that may be overlooked when looked at big data surveys is the purpose behind the online outreach that is being measured. DEBBIE: From our experience, industry benchmarking can be tricky. Plan those activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

At that point, it might be helpful to bring in an HR consulting firm or an expert on the subject to make sure all concepts are addressed comprehensively and sensitively. When you determine new strategic plans like these, be sure to also identify a measurable metric to assess your success level regarding your DEI initiatives.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view.

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