Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2023

By Jo Boyle – a digital marketing expert with a wealth of experience in nonprofit fundraising and marketing. Universal Analytics (UA) has stopped processing data. To make the most of new features, nonprofits must know how to create and track conversions in GA4. It’s official. How people are using their website.

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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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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Big data and robust analytic measuring tools have enabled this revolution to go from a pipe dream to reality in only a few short years. Everyone wants to compare the success of their organization to a measurable analytic. Here are the 3 steps your nonprofit needs to get started measuring and reporting on meaningful data today.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If so, it’s time to start thinking about how to measure your definition. There are still literally dozens of ways to measure this definition (trust me, I’ve tried). Data limitations play a major role in what definitions get used. Percentage-based definitions may be less meaningful for small organizations.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

So, how can your nonprofit create a social media strategy that you can sustain? The answer: craft your own strategy that uses your data, is customized to your audience, and won’t overwhelm your team (or yourself). As you define your goal(s), also think about how to measure it. In a year, what will success look like?

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. nonprofits through Candid’s nonprofit profiles. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While KPIs represent a valuable opportunity, it’s important that you select the right ones to track for your unique organization, especially since there are so many possibilities.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. Shows ad performance data like impressions, spend, and demographic reach. How Should Nonprofits Use Ad Libraries?

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 14, 2021

On a recent webinar, Cloud for Good teamed up with Tableau to talk about impact measurement best practices and to conduct a live demo showcasing Nonprofit Dashboards in Tableau (which are available to Tableau users completely free of charge) to help you get a head start on data analysis based on your organization’s unique needs.

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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. As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 5, 2024

Building Trust with Transparency: Data Privacy In today’s digital age, data privacy for nonprofits is paramount. As stewards of this trust, understanding and upholding data privacy is crucial for maintaining positive relationships and ensuring long-term sustainability. Avoid unnecessarily invasive data requests.

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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. Engagement with content.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

With all of the time and resources that nonprofits pour into creating their programs, it's important to know whether these efforts are creating the change you need. The answers to these questions probably exist within your organization's data, but the challenge is knowing how to make sense of it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. Your most passionate volunteers have a lot of useful data floating around in spreadsheets, e-mails, texts, and minds.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Year after year, you and your nonprofit strive to have a good year. At least one of the criteria for measuring a successful year is related to your financials. Nonprofits tend to suffer from a lack of it. These days, many nonprofits use some form of donor intelligence services. Nonprofits just don’t have enough of it.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you know the importance of donor data. But your data collection contains sensitive information about your supporters, and they trust you to handle that data carefully. Thankfully, your nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) system can help keep donor data safe.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Based on Candid data processed as of October 2023, approximately 78,133 grants valued at $16.8 My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? billion have been awarded to advance racial equity since 2020.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As more funders seek to use demographic data to inform their grantmaking decision-making, 125 partners have now joined the Demographics via Candid movement. Here I highlight their best practices for collecting this data from grantees, as well as what this information is helping foundations to achieve.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

However, these convenient fundraising options come with a risk many in the nonprofit world aren’t very familiar with—cybersecurity. The importance of cybersecurity for nonprofits can’t be overstated, and your organization is not immune to the constantly evolving cyber threats that come with sharing information through the internet.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before. Whether it be a CRM , GoogleAnalytics , or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial , measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. Data degrades.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 21, 2022

Without cybersecurity policies and protocols in place, your nonprofit is more vulnerable to data breaches. It is crucial to protect your data and the constituents that provide it. Many nonprofits store crucial data including information about clients, donors, volunteers, staff, and corporate partners that needs to be protected.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? We can track total downloads and we can tell if those downloads were from unique devices, but that’s where the measurement trail meets the edge of the cliff. Ways to measure a podcast's success!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Proving to your nonprofit’s stakeholders that your organization is “worthy” of their financial support is an ongoing responsibility for nonprofit management. . If your nonprofit doesn’t do this kind of record-keeping and analysis, the good news is that it is never too late to start! How to Best Illustrate ROI.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, the ability to harness data for informed decision-making is more critical than ever. Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Even with preventive measures in place, any organization can fall victim to data loss, through a cyberattack, system failure, or natural disaster. For this reason, it is vital that you have a disaster recovery plan, which includes having multiple backups of all your important data.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

Conduct a tell-a-friend campaign Your nonprofit volunteers likely have friends or family members who share their passion for your issues. Paper petitions are fine but a tablet-based petition—eliminating the need for hours of post-event data entry—is even better. He can be reached at Brian@RubensteinImpact.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

A major motivator for generous giving to nonprofit organizations is contributing to a solution and changing something for the better. It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. 3) Give something real. 4) Give outcomes.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 9, 2023

Fluxx and UpMetrics have partnered to provide foundations and grantees with an end-to-end solution that combines grantmaking data with impact data, measurement, and analytics. The partnership will empower foundations to make more informed grantmaking decisions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Some of the most effective online fundraising strategies happen when you dig into your organisation’s data and understand who your donors are, and how they came across to you. . Where do I find this data?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 15, 2021

In a success-from-anywhere world, data is currency. But for mission-driven organizations, data is more than numbers; it is the story of their impact. For nonprofits and education institutions, data represents donors, grants, volunteers, students, faculty, staff, and the impact they are driving.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Morgan McLenan works on the Project Team at Donorly, where she is able to strengthen development initiatives for critical nonprofits. It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. What do we mean by “data?”. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different?

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

Embracing innovation can transform your nonprofit. But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Let’s start by understanding ‘culture of innovation’ and why it matters.

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. When people think about data, the concept of data visualization (aka.,

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here are 4 ways to measure volunteer program ROI and ensure you are getting the highest amount of value. Leveraging volunteerism can, and probably is, helping your nonprofit fill critical roles and take steps towards obtaining its mission. Measure Volunteer Value. Measure Community Reach. Check out how VolunteerHub works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. This Year Vs. Last Year. this year for major donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The day ended with a curated conversation on “ Data, Transparency, and Impact ” facilitated by the amazing Erica Mills and with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash). “Is measuring data about proving it or improving it?” Transparency and Measurement.

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