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. Auxiliary Data Systems. So what did we find?

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

Lost receipts, multiple tracking spreadsheets, and unchecked spending, oh my! These hurdles are a few of the challenges facing school business offices and nonprofit organizations doing their best to evaluate and keep track of employee purchases day-to-day. Of course, there are caveats to consider when evaluating new tools.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Before you can evaluate your options, you first need to establish your organization’s needs and top features to look out for in a solution. Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. What is a volunteer management system? Let’s dive in!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? How are you using each piece of data you collect from your grantees?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Your CRM, or customer relationship management system, stores and organizes information about your existing customers. Conversion: The client returns to your site to complete their registration and receives an automated confirmation email from your organization. Analyze your CRM. Fostering a culture of collaboration.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 18, 2023

Here’s a breakdown of ways to incorporate automation into your nonprofit: Streamline Donor Management : Make use of donor management systems that automatically keep track of your supporters’ details, so you can spend more time fostering those invaluable connections. AI tools to the rescue again!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

The museum also saved information about donors’ food preferences, average gift amount, and even notes about their past conversations. You may have heard this software referred to by a few different names, including donor management software, nonprofit CRM , donor database, donor software, and donor tracking software. Engagement meter.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Richmond, VA, December 21, 2017, Gyrus Systems, a leader in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) industry, proudly announced that Talented Learning named the GyrusAim® Learning Management System Honorable mentions for "Best Compliance LMS" category. Who is certified?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. Tracking racial equity funding . In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. underlying systems and structures that?generate

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Did your external messaging shift to embrace issues of diversity, inclusion, and systemic equality ? We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” If you don’t feel confident about doing this evaluation on your own, hire someone.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Getting actionable financial data for grant writing all comes down to the setup of your financial systems." Getting data you need for a grant request all comes down to the setup of your financial systems. Here's a class tracking overview with more details and instructions on how to set up classes and get started. (If

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

With applications that feed directly into the grants management system, funders can easily run reports to see if they are meeting their goals for a diverse set of grantees. As Tonia shared on the webinar, “Simple applications well-considered can help you make rapid decisions.”

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey. For example, if a paid-event registration campaign isn’t on track to meet or exceed your goals, you can adjust your approach mid-course instead of waiting until the campaign has completed and it’s too late to have an impact. Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

When it comes to donor data, there’s a lot to keep track of. A nonprofit CRM (also referred to as a donor management system ) is a software platform that allows nonprofits to store, update, and report on supporter data. However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the greatest benefits of the Bloomerang Payments system is fraud management and protection. Fraud management is included in the system, so nonprofits aren’t charged extra for this service. PayPal Best for: Nonprofits looking for a payment processor that prioritizes digital conversions. Evaluate features.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

In addition to reviewing and updating your nonprofit operating budget each year, your financial team should also regularly evaluate your process for creating that document. Do you need to pull reports and CSV files from several different systems to get a holistic view of your income streams and expenses?

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. Then, there are plenty of opportunities to make the most of your tracking results. Tracking call results.

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Forum One

MARCH 22, 2022

Evaluate any hidden fees and what could trigger them. It needs to talk to your other systems and be a part of your larger digital ecosystem. Make sure you evaluate the integration landscape and that the tool will be able to seamlessly integrate with your other systems. Does this tool integrate with my other platforms?

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Qgiv offers an Facebook integration that allows you to raise funds right on Facebook, all while collecting the donor data you need to thank you donors and evaluate your fundraising strategy. Qgiv’s platform offers a storefront feature that can track your inventory. Event management tools to keep you on track. Platform Overview.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

Identifying Your Needs Before designing a volunteer engagement program, you’ll want to evaluate your organization’s needs and determine the specific tasks volunteers can help with. Introduce them to staff members and other volunteers, and provide a comfortable environment for them to ask questions and engage in conversation.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Quick pre-RFP conversations are very helpful for getting better quality proposals. Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Hosting needs.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. You just need to make a few adjustments first.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

To collect key data and utilize it effectively for communication, you’ll need a dedicated system of integrated fundraising software. Keeping track of event data and supporters’ social media activity will be more important to their communications than to a nonprofit that heavily relies on volunteer support. Email tools.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

On the Google Grants team, we receive a lot of questions from grantees on how best to evaluate their AdWords performance. We put this article together to give guidance around monitoring and evaluating your Google Grants account using a few strategies we find valuable. We hope you do, too! . Let's get started. Quality Score.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Their AI system — dubbed Lymph Node Assistant, or LYNA — was able to detect cancer better than human pathologists. AI Is Getting Better At Conversation. Here’s this month’s roundup. Philanthropy and Fundraising. AI and Ethics.

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Everyaction

MAY 30, 2018

Because of these principles, the process of evaluating and deciding on investments such as technology tools can be difficult for many nonprofits, because it requires a complicated process of weighing short term costs with long term benefits, while keeping multiple stakeholders happy.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Four Strategies to Transform P2P Participants into Loyal Supporters You can build systems and processes from scratch to make it easier for P2P participants to become sustaining monthly donors. With HJC’s help, they developed personas and envisioned their journey as a funnel, with lead conversion at the top.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. In the nonprofit world, we can expect something similar, which is why we recommend trying to reach out to a potential donor eight times to get a conversation. Write them a letter to show further appreciation for their support and invite them to have another conversation.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Conversion Rates. The sales operations unit is an entity that emerged to bring system, science, and best practices into the the world of selling. Performance Metrics Analyses. Sales Activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. These metrics measure outcomes for programs which can be compared to previous ones.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

To help explain why a nonprofit database (also known as a constituent relationship management system) is so important to the financial and organizational success of your nonprofit, we’ll discuss how: It can help automate your marketing efforts. It can help make data-driven decisions. Fixing errors.

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Achieve

JANUARY 27, 2023

Keep track of information such as demographics, giving habits, and previous interactions with your nonprofit to maintain and optimize online donor engagement. Once you’ve gotten the gears of your recurring giving program moving, continue to gather and evaluate data to monitor your success. Adjust your strategy over time.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Whether you’re a brand-new nonprofit looking to recruit your very first volunteers or are a seasoned pro, it’s important to first evaluate and assess your volunteer needs and to do so frequently. What matters is that you should be prepared to have difficult conversations when needed. Let’s break down what each letter stands for below.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2021

Small-scale testing is what allows you to evaluate your ideas and choose the ones that benefit your users the most. Using data to engage in conversations with your users. Users should experience it like a two-way conversation. Their systems are intentional and make it feel like they really ”know” you. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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