Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Time Spent Filling Out the Form (<1 percent).

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Emphasize that opting into text messages will allow supporters to get quicker updates and that they can opt-out at any time. While there will be times you send bulk texts to your entire donor base, you’ll want to send tailored messages to specific segments more often. Segment your list of contacts. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Practice Puerto Rico Fundraising Metrics 59

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Use time-limited offers to create urgency. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Highlight growth in conversions.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Web Bookmarking Contest Case Study 114

Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

It is finding great stuff amid the noise, annotating it, organizing it, and adding your wisdom or perspective and sharing a collection of curated links in a context or time that adds value. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making.

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Content San Francisco Technique Skills 123

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. Spend significant time working with your organization’s communication director to put this resource together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Conversion Rates. Average Sales Cycle Length is the average length of time it takes to close deals. .

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. It’s fitness for purpose and don’t forget a lot of quantitative data is rubbish from Dunc-Rintoul.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

At the same time, there is a trend among funders to be more data-driven in their quest for more evidence-based giving. In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter. Not necessarily. Event registrations.

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Data Hunger Evaluation Analytics 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We also had to create new content for the session and a unified theme, luckily Star Wars was easy to play with. During the session, we had to pull out some tricks of the trade to adjust in real-time when we behind our plan because of too much content. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. You can also use Twitter. But say hi.

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People Community Video Podcast 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Disaster work.

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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. Now we need to find out not only what works, but what works best over time.”. Demonstrations of what is possible are up and running in communities of every size across the United States. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. I’ve said this many times, but if I was running a nonprofit today, I would sign up for this service and put together an advisory group of data nerds to help with my data and measurement needs.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Does not know where to start.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals.

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

charities with economists willing to donate their time. Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. ” It struck Brookes that if a large, established charity was soliciting economists, others might well be in need.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Time spent on the site. Research Questions. What’s Next.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

It boiled down to three main points: Use real-time data to immediately improve what you’re doing. I started to really ponder the first point: Use real-time data. And you need to be listening all the time. To use real-time data effectively, you need to do more than count donations at the end of the campaign.

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Data Time Phase Nonprofit 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Of course, there were some prizes involved!).

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, we are living an era of content abundance. A content curator offers high value to anyone looking for quality content because finding that information (and making sense of it) requires more and more time, attention, and focus. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. Q: What is your best time saving tip?

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Social Media Content Practice New York City 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do these networks evolve over time? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also think about what I'm not going to cover due to time constraints and communicate that upfront. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. " The ask itself - a simple and easy ask of $10 played a factor as Katya Andresen notes , "The simpler and easier the ask, the bigger the conversion. Blogs can be a great source of 360 evaluation. What's Next?

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Analysis Reflection Experiment Time 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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Network Impact Louisville Social 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation.

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Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post. Now apply that to social media.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I reached out to Avinash and he was very generous with his time, helping us understand traditional web metrics as well as Google Analytics. Through our conversation, we also touched on the metrics for blogs. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash.

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Analytics Web Screencast Metrics 94

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations. For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. is going end-of-life!",

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Tech NTC Listserv NTEN 86

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We just posted a part-time position at my museum for a Community Engagement/Marketing Associate. This is a big step for us, not because we haven't had a dedicated marketing person for a long time, but more because I wasn't sure we would ever want or need one. For a long time, I thought this was the best approach.

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