Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

Does your association have a data governance policy? In our data-driven world, governance is crucial in maintaining the integrity, accuracy, and security of your organization’s data. Continue reading to learn how your association can adopt its own data governance policy and become a more data-driven organization.

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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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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. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. Time is wasted today when organizations try to track donor data by hand using spreadsheets.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Maybe your association is experiencing challenges, so you’re searching for strategies to empower your staff and enhance the member experience. Regardless of your large association’s situation, the Nimble AMS team is here to offer tips to measure your success and meet your future goals! We are very fortunate to have Nimble AMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

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. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. When reporting on these numbers try breaking it down into small digestible chunks of data that are easy to interpret.

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. This guide will look at four transformational fundraising strategies for increasing your nonprofit’s ROI from its event marketing outreach. When you spend time and money marketing to people who are unlikely to attend your event, your ROI will inevitably take a hit.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again. Even in the situations above, a ROI calculation may be appropriate. Has anyone done a fairly complete cost justification or calculation of ROI, based on all of these items? We cannot interface with other desired applications.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 8, 2023

Innovate with modern software and AI to improve your member recruitment and retention strategy by leveraging past member data to predict if a constituent is unlikely to renew. Leveraging dashboards lets you measure key performance indicators (KPIs,) helping your association track its progress and take control of its future.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2017

My recent paper, Remarkably Outstanding Implementation: The Foundation for Positive ROI with Target Analytics , is now available. As I prepared and wrote this paper, several thoughts occurred to me about the importance of measuring ROI for nonprofit analytics projects that I thought I would highlight for you in this post.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

When I asked Bard what data would be needed to produce a comprehensive analysis, it responded like this: Your website. If you were to feed Bard all of that data, you would probably have the foundation for a decent analysis. Measure Results “Marketers are always looking to measure their skills.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Data-Driven" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. What are costs of alternatives?

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measures of how much money your fundraising events are raising, how your audience is growing, and which parts of your event are the most successful. But getting high-quality event analytics requires high-quality, accurate numbers—which means carefully tracking data along the way.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Next, you’ll want to focus on the metrics side of your formula, ensuring your values are measurable. Consider the frequency of the member activities, how many dollars you spend, or the rates compared to peers to get measurable data before start assigning values. However, you don’t need to measure everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. 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. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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NTEN

JANUARY 16, 2013

You cannot develop an ROI model for any part of your web presence without going directly back to your mission. It all can be measured, and if you are reading this, chances are you are one of those people doing the measuring. Return on Investment (ROI) for web projects has come to the forefront.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2011

Not only did she wear a Tiara, but she shared her measurement insights in rhyme. Not only did she wear a Tiara, but she shared her measurement insights in rhyme. I haven’t yet formally announced that I’ve been working on a book project with KD Paine to bring her Measure What Matters to the social good sector.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before we dive in, we want you to start thinking of data as one of your most important assets. Of course, they are valuable assets, but data is, too. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. What do you think about our data?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the process was published.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Nonprofit budgets are often tight, and each of your campaigns should aim to hit as high a return on investment (ROI) as possible. To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). You’ll also need to measure your outputs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

What is it and what it means to use it as a measurement for improving Facebook engagement on your Facebook Page? This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared. Measuring Your Edgerank Score. Remember, measurement isn’t counting – you have to get just take numbers out of context.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. Why is that? Here are our top 3 reasons: 1. Discoveries Lower Risk & Cost.

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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. . Looking at this data will help you make informed decisions and have an accurate picture of your organization’s health. . When you have all of your data and are ready to start evaluating it, look at these metrics : . Total revenue.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Year-over-year strategic planning includes changes in operations, processes, initiatives, measurement of impact and outcomes, and the need to find new ways to connect with stakeholders. A point solution makes data collection from multiple sources difficult and often requires integration with third-party applications.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Measure actionable items.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

These insights help organizations tailor their engagement strategies and ensure that your team’s time and resources go to the individuals most likely to contribute significantly⁠—which increases the ROI (return on investment) of your major giving efforts. Establish specific major giving levels and benefits.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. These algorithms are continually refined over time as more data is generated for analysis. Data analysis for planning campaigns is the perfect example. How Nonprofits Use AI.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals. Benchmarks - Taking raw data and reporting in a comparable way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the process was published.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , I thought I'd share how I look at my Facebook page data. That in turns drives my measurement strategy.

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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. Services Delivered.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

Social Media Measurement Tips View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2011

Being new to this, we also had to determine how to measure the return on investment (ROI) of our ad buys, to help guide our efforts in the future. We've already written a step-by-step guide on how to use Google's URL builder , but it's pretty easy: The key is to remain consistent so you can find the data in Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. I shared case studies and tips for nonprofits on measuring efficiency and effectiveness and looking at tangible/intangible benefits. I think that is dangerous.

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