Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now is the time to celebrate what all your organization achieved, reflect upon what you didn’t, and learn from that data to make 2022 your best year yet. To answer that question, you want to be sure you’re pulling up the right data. Website metrics. newsletter sign-up, resource download, donation). Email metrics.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . Goals and metrics . Looking at this data will help you make informed decisions and have an accurate picture of your organization’s health. . 11 metrics to evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . Total revenue.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . A big part of this is understanding and leveraging data to inform any changes they make to the donor experience. Great question!

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The team at Association Analytics often hears questions like, What exactly is data analytics? With analytics, you try to aggregate data over time and across data sources for a 360-degree view of your members and their activities. Collect Your Data Even If Its Not Perfect. Your plan should start by collecting your data.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Your data can reveal hints about donors’ giving preferences, giving capacity, willingness to give, and the reasons why they support your cause. Monitor data and adjust your appeals. Determine your objectives.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recurring donations are gifts to a nonprofit organization made by a donor on an ongoing basis, typically monthly. Nonprofit organizations benefit from recurring donations because they provide consistent revenue streams and help organizations maintain long-term relationships with supporters. And donors like it.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 !

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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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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Access your data. Of course, analyzing your fundraising campaigns starts with accessing data from your online fundraising software. It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. Evaluate post-campaign data.

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Campaign Tips Online Fundraising 83

Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter the strategy, the best way to optimize your donor communication processes is to leverage donor data. Writing donation request letters and other communications to your supporters needs more thought put into it than pressing the send button on a general template. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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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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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. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. An estimated $3 billion was donated to nonprofits in the U.S. Review your donor demographics.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

The answer: craft your own strategy that uses your data, is customized to your audience, and won’t overwhelm your team (or yourself). Increase donations: success is measured by an increase in donations on the platform’s embedded fundraising tools, such as those on Meta or TikTok. Set a time period for the test.

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 98

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. What do we mean by “data?”. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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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. Analyze that data. Is it different from year-to-year?

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Data Donor Retention Demographics 215

Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Online fundraising platforms are software solutions that your nonprofit can use to solicit, accept, and process donations made via the internet. Many online fundraising platforms also make it easy for supporters to start fundraisers of their own to gather donations on behalf of your organization. Report on fundraising data.

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M+R

APRIL 24, 2024

This year, 225 wonderful nonprofits partners joined in the fun, contributing data on fundraising, advocacy, engagement, mobilization, and marketing. Cram your cranium with metrics on email and mobile messaging, advertising, web traffic, social media and influencers, and more. Sign up now! The social media landscape is changing quickly.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

According to DonorBox nearly one-third of all annual gifts come in December, and nearly half of all online donations come in the last week of the year. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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Classy

JULY 28, 2021

An easy donation experience offers value to both supporters and nonprofits, and we’re breaking down how to achieve it all. . Help your supporter make easy donations through pathways that meet them where they are, whether that’s payment type or donation frequency. Segment Your Donation Pages. Optimize My Donation Page.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Well, according to a recent study conducted by Blackbaud and nfpSynergy of 338 nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom, many nonprofits are “drowning in data” and are unable to fully utilize all the data they’ve collected with their CRM. At first glance what would a third party viewer determine as important data?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. Here are some of Amy's thoughts on these common social media metrics and how to achieve them. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! So here’s your action item: If your organization hasn’t already, save any existing UA data before this date for historical tracking! We’ll wait. Ok, back with us?

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 14, 2023

Organizations that rely on donations to continue serving their communities or participants, whether they are nonprofits, schools, or sports teams, must focus on providing high-quality donor experiences. But how can you make sure the act of donating is both easy for donors and maximizes results for your organization?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising metrics are the key to unlocking your most effective, generosity-encouraging strategies. That’s why it’s important for fundraisers to stay up to date on nonprofit organization statistics and use metrics to inform their fundraising strategies and decisions. Here are 10 fundraising statistics worth noting. 37 Million U.S.

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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. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

By Stephanie Wallace , Marketing Specialist, Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. By automating tasks and centralizing data, these tools have saved organizations time and resources.

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

Double the donation and DonorSearch are thrilled to announce their recent donor insight enhancements. This innovative integration now identifies high-value donors from within the 360MatchPro portal, providing actionable donor wealth data designed to drive revenue for your organization.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 Restricted funds are donations or grants that can only be used for the purposes specified by the funder. All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that provide insight into the performance of any given process or tool. When it comes to nonprofit websites, these metrics can help you determine how effective the site is at driving donations, volunteer sign-ups, awareness, or other organizational goals.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is at the heart of every grant you write and outreach letter you send and is the first metric you use to measure your impact year to year. What data or facts can you point to that substantiate your claims? The post Show Me the Data!: As a nonprofit organization, your mission statement is your guiding light.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Keep an eye on your metrics. Let’s dive in so you can start driving more donations! Once you have a supporter’s contact information and permission to text them, you can use texts as a critical touchpoint for building relationships that lead to more donations and increased involvement. Write tailored messages for every occasion.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Making the switch is vital — if you’re still using the old version, your data is no longer being tracked. You’ll be pulling in rich data in no time! Your donation platform can help you distinguish one donation from another. However, GA4 does need to collect about four weeks of data before this function can begin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Additionally, Facebook has made both creating and donating to Fundraisers a highly streamlined process. Take advantage of the data Facebook collects to contact people who have run successful Fundraisers in the past.

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sgEngage

MARCH 13, 2024

This report compares peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising data from 2020, 2021, and 2022. So, we were curious: What would the data tell us about three key questions? Have people changed the way they donate? They know how to fundraise, and their friends and families are used to receiving requests for donations.

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Blackbaud Report Fundraising Benchmark 76

Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Nonprofits who get more of their staff involved in their online fundraising strategy prove to be more successful in driving donations. Working as a team to maximize donations benefits your nonprofit’s mission and overall financial health. . They’ll look at metrics on missing donor data, address updates, and donor actions.

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