Media Cause

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Why are analytics + data so important for marketers? Data and analytics are the key to better understanding your marketing efforts. Tracking campaign performance with data analytics tools allows you to understand and refine your strategies, optimize your efforts, and maximize ad spend.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It was seemingly a year and forever ago when we last wrote about nonprofit trends reports. Back then, we were concerned about heady items like constituent-centric experiences, data-driven culture and strategy, technology for change, and use cases for technology. However, our report found that perception and reality often clash.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Meaningful data is a tremendous asset to advocates, policymakers, and mission-driven organizations. Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

posted by Whitney Herr-Buchholz, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management Director of Operations & Advancement | University of Arizona School of Dance. Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Almost all organizations produce some sort of annual financial reporting, but it’s may not always be public information. Donors and grantors both expect detailed reporting and deep financial transparency from nonprofit organizations. At a university,?a has a different meaning?in nonprofit organization.? At churches,?it?may

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. KD Paine reminded us again that we become what we measure so choose wisely. Know What Success Is.

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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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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. Universal Analytics (a.k.a. Enable Enhanced Measurement for eCommerce. Event Types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

. ”Don’t measure the world, if you don’t have the time and resources to do so.” ” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. Twice as likely to take part in events like charity walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd! The people with skills are out there.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

From gathering demographic data to understanding your grantees’ experiences, grantmaking organizations have been working through many multifaceted conundrums this year. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

Luckily, nonprofit organizations can track website activity to make those essential changes by viewing user data through the use of Google Analytics 4. This new analytics software is taking the place of Universal Analytics , its predecessor program. By July 1 st , 2023 Universal Analytics won’t be supported.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Google won’t be porting any data from the legacy platform to GA4 so, if you wait until the last minute, you won’t have an easy way to compare historical data to the new GA4 data. . Getting setup with a GA4 property that pulls in data has been a smooth process for us and remains as simple as it was with Universal Analytics.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We’ve written previously about the release of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and the impending retirement of Universal Analytics (UA) on July 1, 2023. UA has been a reliable benchmarking tool for more than a decade, and many organizations have comfortably adopted strategies and reports that deliver data to inform their broader digital strategy.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In October 2022, Google announced they would replace their Universal Analytics (UA) with their next-generation measurement solution Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , on July 1st, 2023. One of the more significant issues that went untalked about was the transfer of data—or lack thereof—from UA to the new GA4.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.”

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

Philanthropic responses to the Turkey and Syria earthquakes Candid has been tracking philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake and reporting on major giving by public corporations and foundations. of the total dollar value captured in the first 14 days of data collection. million for total commitments of $195 million.

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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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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. Share your data with Candid.”. Syrian refugee crisis. Be flexible.

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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. Do a majority of your reported conversions come through as view-through conversions? How will iOS14.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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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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Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 23, 2023

Running reports and measuring data. Data Collection Keeping accurate and up-to-date volunteer data can become a real-challenge if your organization relies on manual data-entry, even more so if you have to train a new volunteer coordinator on how to collect and input information. Training new volunteers.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

It can streamline tracking and reporting processes, enhance communication with donors and constituents, and consolidate necessary information. There are three components of adequate planning: having a plan, creating schemas, and mapping data. Inputting data into Salesforce takes time, but in the long run, it will be worth it!

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

This year, Forum One took home three gold, two silver, two bronze, and one merit award in the website, apps, and interactive, and annual report categories. To do this, the dashboard provides city leaders and communities with an array of regularly updated data that is specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Urban Institute Ed Data Portal.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) Google believes GA4 better predicts audience needs and provides better data.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions. From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . Candid makes it easy to share your data.

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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. Want to see more? Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Does this data match what you see on the ground in Mexico? Video is an opportunity for NGOs to gain a foothold in the media universe. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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