sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Measurement Plan.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. What kind of digital touchpoints did you incorporate into your development strategies? These are all great adaptive strategies, but now what? . Pillar #1—No Longer Optional: Your Nonprofit Digital Strategy in 2021 and Beyond.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. To See The Big Picture.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. This is part five in a six-part series. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major Gift Fundraising Strategies for Every Phase of the Process In this guide, we’ll take you step by step through every part of the major gift fundraising process and provide you with tips for securing more (and larger!) Impact 4 Ways to Expertly Manage Donor Data 9 min read Read Now Perform Prospect Research What Is This Strategy?

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place!

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Reporting and Visualizing.

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

As we are closing in on the end of January, you have likely be finalizing your nonprofit’s digital strategy plans. Not all points may apply to you, so we recommend that you to focus your evaluation on categories and elements that are most critical to your overall mission. Conversion rate (e.g., Conversion rates (e.g.,

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Galvanize your nonprofit’s 2022 marketing plan with journey-based strategies. Join Sam Lee, Digital Marketing Strategist from Elevation , for an introduction to the nonprofit marketing funnel that includes Brand Building, Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation and Intent, and Conversion / Action.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. You hold grudges and have difficulty moving on after a challenging conversation. Be honest about this.)

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . I’ve long advocated for adding “wows ” to your donor relationship-building strategy, so this finding particularly struck me. And that’s really the whole point of placing a premium on donor retention strategies. Establish clear success metrics.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

As the home of organizations that draw on decades of history, it’s not surprising that we love the security of time-honored strategies. Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Evolve as your industry changes.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 90

VQ Strategies

MAY 17, 2023

Just today, the Initiative has released Activating the Power of Strategic Volunteer Engagement for a Better World: A Conversation Starter for Funders and Nonprofit Leaders. I and the others on these teams hope you’ll be inspired to start conversations on the impact of strategic volunteer engagement so we can move missions forward, together.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have said it many, many times and so have lots of others—you’re probably tired of hearing about how social media is supposed to be “a conversation.&# And that’s okay! Because it isn’t JUST a conversation! How can you create a strategy for your messages and campaigns in social media that respect this fact?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

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. It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space.

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. As a result, your nonprofit’s financial health often depends on your ability to recoup that investment through a successful marketing strategy that brings in ticket sales and donations. These recommendations include: 1. Prepare ahead of time. Automate your marketing.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. A successful two-day hackathon and four pizzas later, that feature is an important part of our product line and our strategy for an improved user experience.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

A multifaceted segmentation strategy separates donors in a variety of ways with the singular purpose of delivering targeted messages specifically related to the message being sent. Donor Segmentation Strategies. Now they’ve opened the door to a conversation with your nonprofit. Communication Preferences.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

By examining specific performance indicators and essential data metrics, you can evaluate your marketing strategy and make adjustments to create a bigger impact. Since your QR codes should lead to key landing pages for your fundraising campaign, evaluate the following metrics: Total scans. Conversion rate. Scan location.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Step 1: Improve Your Content Strategy Acquiring new donors online requires you to build a better content plan.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

The results: evaluating the success of our social media video experiment We ran this experiment from September 26 to December 9, 2022, and collected analytics to evaluate its success on December 12, 2022. Some of our top videos were just authentic conversations on topics that we knew would be valuable for our audiences.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

This will lead to a starting point that will create DEI strategies to ensure impact. This will help shape your conversations, strategies, and goals. Still, the investment will help push through critical and possibly challenging conversations with the board, staff, and other stakeholders. Where to start?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

They are wise stewards of our resources and visionaries who identify strategies for future growth. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. That’s why there is no substitute for the impact of personal conversations. How would you describe your board’s performance? the organization’s greatest asset?

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy. Leading indicators allow you to measure how well your strategies are working to influence a goal. Develop KPIs for Your Goals. How will you know whether you have achieved a goal?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. IT systems and platforms must integrate with overarching business strategies. Association 4.0 leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

If your team is remote, find strategies to bring people together online. We’ve tried to compensate for the lack of coffee machine/breakroom conversations in several ways. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. Some employees miss the social aspects of the workplace.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

They will not shy away from difficult conversations and assess how they, as individuals, might need to change their own thinking. A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative found that some perceived “best practices” or unspoken norms in grantmaking may actually have a negative impact on equity efforts. Build a Peer Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? Learn more about the conversation here. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While the look and feel of a new website is often top of mind and absolutely essential in making a resounding impression, there are also a number of non-design-related strategies that you need to take into account. There are many things to consider when planning a website redesign. Think beyond the website. In summary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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