TechImpact

JUNE 3, 2014

Image courtesy of CRW Connect. 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.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Most humans absorb information through written or spoken words and images that help them connect and synthesize chunks of information. 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.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Image courtesy of Ketia 4 Kids Foundation. Are they responding to your your methods the way you had hoped, or are you missing some so the important data. It’s easy to ask for data on “engagement” or for insights into the latest “campaign,” but what data is meaningful to defining those terms?

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Data hoarding extends far beyond just your donor data and CRM software. It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. All data needs to be managed.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Through her work with clients like the Wildlife Conservation Society and her love of (math) problem solving, Amy has picked up a lot of wisdom + I wanted to better understand her process for approaching a social media campaign and measuring its efficacy. Measuring beyond "likes". Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

At TechSoup, I've noticed we're talking more and more about the importance of data for nonprofits. At the same time, there is a trend among funders to be more data-driven in their quest for more evidence-based giving. It was called Five Data Don'ts for Nonprofits. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? ” Of course, with anything you measure, you have to determine what your goals and success means: Important to think about network goals, and what being a network member means #SM_RE.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

During a year-end campaign, it’s essential to track and analyze data from these multiple channels. Data on donor behavior, preferences, and interactions provides audience insights that can be used to improve fundraising strategies and optimize future campaigns. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Creating tweetable images, which members can tweet with the click of a button, can be a great way to get more people to share your content. 7) Measure your social media engagement. You can also use the data to measure your progress against your goals. If you’re doing this, make sure to measure the clickthrough rate.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

× Describe your nonprofit and general audience Image prompt: Image width: 128 256 384 448 512 576 640 704 768 832 896 960 1024 Image height: 128 256 384 448 512 576 640 704 768 832 896 960 1024 Submit Reset Get more Generate images Reset images GPT3 Response Replicate – Stable Diffusion Response What goes into a Donor Persona?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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. Perhaps the most important factor in setting your budget is that you want to generate enough data to decide if the financial return from running ads is worthwhile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s the good news: with preparation and a pulse on the right data and information, it is possible to get a handle on the task and get a big picture of your organization’s needs. A comprehensive web content inventory lists pages, images, documents, and applications on a spreadsheet. Who are your key stakeholders and decision-makers?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We talk a lot about data at Idealware, and we're not alone — it's a nonprofit buzzword that's showing no sign of fading. More and more organizations are embracing the idea that collecting and measuring data and acting on what they learn from it can improve their work and better their services. Here in the U.S.,

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Start by digging into your customer data to better understand who they are. Typically, marketing research relies on third-party data to help you understand broader, industry-wide patterns and capture audiences you don’t currently serve. These measurements should align with your campaign’s goals. Create customer personas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. Tactic 4: Post more images and videos. Our research and our day-to-day experience shows that images and videos tend to have much higher engagement than text-only posts or links. Images with CTAs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

RT @ kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe – I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4. Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012. The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

" It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact. In the impact investing model, when we give to a cause, we should see specific and measurable returns in the form of social change. 3 Reasons You're About to Be As Excited About Outcomes Measurement As I Am. How did I get here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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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 ! For our first project,?

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. When a user downloads that image, we know they’ve opened the email. . If open rates from a significant portion of email list subscribers are unreliable, then that data point is unreliable. What will this change?

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Images of the association’s founders, history, and current activities are displayed throughout the facility, and spaces were created to accommodate a variety of work styles. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

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TechImpact

JUNE 12, 2014

Image courtesy of IT Business Edge. Cloud and big data go together like peas and carrots. Cloud computing enables big data, collaboration, more effective communication, and the ability to more effectively track outcomes. Finding the best way to measure that change is what’s difficult. Data on dollars.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. How can charities use AI?

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Image courtesy of Waiting for the Elevator. Can your nonprofit even measure its return on investments (ROI)? Putting together an ROI report can be time consuming, but can also lead to great data and help you find ways to trim costs without shirking quality. Risk Analysis.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related. This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

With all the details ironed out, all that’s left is to upload your image or video with your text copy and publish your Facebook Ad. The first step to targeting the right audience is to look at your donor data to find similar attributes in between your average donors, event attendees, or major donors that you want to appeal to.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We then ran the following studies using this data. The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the program R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. . We then compared how that emotional polarity score interacted with the organizations’ financial data. .

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Furthermore, while NXT Insight Designer has matured, it will not be a full replacement for CT clients because it is limited to NXT data only. . The other solution Blackbaud is offering to its clients is to export all data (via nightly backups or Database View Export) and report on the raw data outside of the database.

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TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

Image courtesy of Black Celebrity Giving. But did you know Facebook offers you post level data, and page level data? Post level data reports on the analytic behind individual posts on a page, whereas page level data measures the impact as post has on the entire page. Post level data. Page level data.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Image courtesy of Data Hive. Generally, most people do not know that in the case of a service outage, all local data will be lost if a persistent storage option is not available. Cloud computing is an exciting technology that is projected to become pervasive in not only nonprofits, but in the common person’s daily life.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The average donor often gives to multiple nonprofits according to prospect research data.) The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. By setting a goal, you will help your organization measure GivingTuesday success and possibly help you raise more. Remember SMART goals?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If your organization deals with sensitive information such as health records, confidential reports, or family issues, you should consider encrypting your data. " Thankfully, you can take action by way of encrypting your data with third-party software recommended by the EFF. Are you using any data encryption tools?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Innovative colleges and universities, including USC , Stanford, Purdue, Rutgers, Michigan State, UPenn, and Notre Dame have recently implemented the Salesforce platform to help modernize their fundraising, personalize engagement, and conduct AI-powered research and reporting to inform strategy and measure ROI.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. 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! However, GA4 does need to collect about four weeks of data before this function can begin.

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