Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

Data provides actionable insights and can give associations a navigable path to make better informed business decisions. And yet, the ability to use data to serve your association’s mission has never been more important and timely. Developing a SMART goal is seldom complex from a data standpoint. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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Digital Strategy Guide Create 298

Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

By identifying potential partners, ensuring compliance, and measuring impact, nonprofits can maximize the effectiveness of their digital advertising efforts. Ultimately, investing time in exploring ad libraries can lead to more successful campaigns, increased engagement, and greater impact for the nonprofit’s cause.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is making a bold and public move to use Candid’s GuideStar profile and demographic survey to track data from grant applicants and recipients. I’d like to start by hearing why the Packard Foundation felt it needed to make a change in how it gathers data. Also, why do this now?

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Whether your nonprofit is working to improve volunteer management or the success of your community outreach programs, you’re likely considering the impact of your planned or existing actions. . In this guide, we’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about nonprofit impact metrics, including: . Why Are Impact Metrics Important?

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Here are important factors that nonprofits should consider when developing year-end campaigns, which, if executed successfully, will further their missions and make a profound impact on the communities they serve. During a year-end campaign, it’s essential to track and analyze data from these multiple channels.

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TechImpact

JUNE 3, 2014

The technical terms “data mining” and “predictive modeling” are really just industry terms words for “gather information” and “educated guessing.”. Here are 5 simple steps you can take today to start benefiting immediately from collecting better donor data, and more of it. Calculate and measure. Analyze that data.

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Data Donor Retention Demographics 215

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

From gathering demographic data to understanding your grantees’ experiences, grantmaking organizations have been working through many multifaceted conundrums this year. But the efforts can also have a quantitative—and qualitative—impact on your communities.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function. To help make standardized and centralized demographic data more freely available, Candid launched the Demographics via Candid initiative earlier this year.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every social sector organization can and should be doing impact management ! There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management.

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Integration Impact Practice Management 69

Candid

JUNE 28, 2023

Though the growing climate crisis makes headlines every day, its enormity and complexity can be overwhelming to donors who often struggle to know where to begin and how to devise equitable strategies to address its impacts. In this video, Dosunmu shares how funding data reveals whether or not climate philanthropy lives up to these values.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s dive in and explore how creating donor personas can help us engage and resonate with our target audience better, so that in turn, we can create more impact in our areas of work. This involves looking at demographics, motivations, and preferences. That is a lot–maybe even an overwhelming amount–of data right at your fingertips!

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By leveraging these insights, you can make the most of AI, ultimately leading to increased donations and greater impact. Begin by defining AI for non-technical team members, explaining that it can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning from data, making predictions, or recognizing patterns.

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

At a conference packed with grants managers, talk of data and data systems were abundant and layered. Data governs almost every aspect of our individual lives and plays a significant role in our field. And it's clear that now is the time for philanthropy to step up and collectively be more data-driven.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

Using data to drive your digital marketing campaigns is essential. Without the discipline of data, your digital marketing success is based more on hope than strategy and execution. Our corporate marketers understand the criticality of data all too well, especially retailers. Use small data (i.e. Use small data (i.e.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Social media is often the main channel for cause marketing, but choosing which platforms to advertise on depends on the demographics you’re trying to reach. Use multiple metrics to measure how successful your campaign was in meeting your different goals. To do that, you need to track your cause marketing campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving. Review your donor demographics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

I hope that you smashed your goals and are currently basking in the glow of knowing that you’ll be making an even bigger impact in 2022. . In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . When you have all of your data and are ready to start evaluating it, look at these metrics : .

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

But if a user opts-out, it will change how advertising giants like Facebook are then able to collect and utilize that user data. This means it will also change whether you, as a Facebook advertiser, have access to that data. impact advertising on Facebook? How will iOS14.5 However, not all hope is lost. 8-event Limit.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

Apple’s latest privacy updates will affect data sources commonly used by mission-driven organizations. In 2017—after years of unease among privacy advocates and users —Apple began announcing and rolling out a series of changes to reduce the volume of data collected and make users more aware of data collection.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

our demographics and interest areas). For mission-driven organizations, the most common ways to begin personalizing content and outreach are to identify the sources where they are already gathering information or data on audiences and target personas. Start by looking at the data available within your email platform.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

The first step in creating any marketing campaign is to conduct preliminary research that investigates and explores data about your organization’s current audience and past campaigns. Analyzing your nonprofit’s data and industry trends can uncover insights about: Existing donors. Research and exploration. The market landscape.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And now that the 990s are released as open data by the IRS, it’s more important than ever to rethink the role of the 990 as a communication channel instead of just a compliance requirement. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them.

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. You’ve undoubtedly targeted a specific audience or demographic with a fundraising push, or with a specific message. Image courtesy of Google User Content.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

When creating your social media strategy, research what tools can help you expand on your goals to make the maximum impact you can. Use this platform to post impactful images or videos of the work your organization does to emotionally appeal to potential supporters. Why should nonprofits use social media?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. How do you measure that?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That way, you will know what decisions your board is making and can provide them with the data that will guide them to the right ones. Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. What will convince them is data. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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TechImpact

JULY 29, 2014

Here are 3 ways Tech Impact thinks you can. My CRM will help us better measure success. With your CRM, you can record how many people from a specific demographic donated to your nonprofit during your last campaign. So how do you go about answering that though question? But have you ever been certain that group has been reached.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Combine these online strategies with traditional nonprofit outreach to create an even greater impact on your donors. When your website showcases your organization’s impact and tells your story well, visitors will want to know more. It’s important to record data to evaluate donor engagement and create new strategies for stewardship.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. Are you working with new demographics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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