Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. As you proceed, you’ll have concrete methods for measuring the efficacy of your changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

I first put a fitbit, a digital pedometer that tracks steps, calories burned, food intake, and other personal analytics data, on my wrist back in October. As a data nerd, I couldn’t resist the fitbit and its ability to track my every move during this glorious science experiment. Otherwise, I would need to go on statins.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? This framing captured the impact not only of the technology tools of their partners, required by certain funders, but also of the access to information for migrants, which would be measurable on an ongoing basis through surveys. How closely should they track those changes?

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

You might send surveys or host meetings with high-level supporters to get their input on your organization’s strategies. 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. Review your donor demographics.

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Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Using the method below you can calculate your average monthly organic reach. A more useful metric to track is your “Engagement Rate.” Following the same method above, go to Insights > Posts, and ensure that “Engagement Rate” is selected, and then do the math: Sum of Engagement Percentages (37.99). ÷. #

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

It provides critical data for nonprofit leaders, board members and funders to understand the effectiveness of organizations in serving their missions. To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

This might include reaching a certain fundraising amount or achieving specific metrics like email open rates or donation page conversions. Attainable: Set a challenging yet realistic fundraising goal that pushes your limits but is still achievable, using data and research to guide you to the right amount. You can help!

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Use recent campaign data to determine who your donors are, then find out which kinds of campaigns they’ve engaged with most in previous years. Along with using data from previous campaigns, analyze your donors’ demographics, such as age group and average income. Peer-to-peer fundraising platforms.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Get feedback with volunteer surveys. Volunteer hours are one of the most important pieces of volunteer data that enter your database. For one thing, tracking volunteer hours and maintaining accurate volunteer data logs makes it possible to apply for volunteer grant funds. Make profiles for each volunteer. Let’s jump right in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. My colleague, blogger Michele Martin has this well-researched deck with many more examples of methods for doing a process evaluation and reflective practice.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. What is the difference?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! Make sure your campaign planning and management tools give you access to all of this data so you have the information readily available.

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Marketing Fundraising Tips Registration 52

Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

FEP, formed nearly two decades ago as a collaboration between donor management software providers and data analysts, releases quarterly findings on giving trends in the form of downloadable reports and in a free online dashboard. All three metrics dropped slightly from 2019 to 2020. The overall 2020 donor retention rate was 43.6%, a 4.1%

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Send a survey if you don’t hear back. This report should list metrics such as: Program ROI Retention rate Number of gifts secured Average donation size Average giving capacity Number of asks By reviewing these metrics, you can identify opportunities to continue improving your major gift program. Make one last phone call.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. In 2020, tech nonprofit NTEN announced that they were pulling their advertising from Facebook due to its data-collection and content-moderation policies.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The typical response of most charities is to try and repackage existing data to meet the rising requirements. Then we can provide you with the most meaningful measurement of our performance, rather than just secondary data on financial inputs. is working to create a list of tools to help charities implement meaningful surveys.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

You soldier on and set up Google Analytics, hoping that the data can start a conversation with everyone, despite the initial reluctance. Integrating data and analytics into your organizational culture can be a huge hurdle to overcome. All these methods can create a fun atmosphere around your new data culture.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. The Classy team focuses on engagement metrics during the virtual event to encourage continued participation and see how invested the virtual audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 26, 2014

In a survey asking donors why they stopped supporting an organization, 53% cited poor communication with the nonprofit. While there will be some differences in follow-up methods, depending on the size of the organization, there are three main elements to following up on a fundraising campaign. Thanks for the helpful post Allison!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

However, studies reveal that most nonprofits still view evaluation as exclusively about program outputs, and they often perceive data gathering as a resource drain and distraction. Some organizations gather data such as program expenditures, customer satisfaction or program outputs (e.g., Program evaluation in nonprofits survey.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With virtual volunteering being the current norm, technology can help keep track of key data points, facilitate volunteer communications, and organize volunteer opportunities— all while both your team and volunteers stay socially distant! Using concrete numbers and data translates this impact into tangible terms. Tutoring or mentoring.

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Volunteer Tips Virtual Facilitation 49

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Metrics, metrics, metrics. Surveys: Basically, ask people again. Use Facebook surveys. Use actual surveys. Wave those survey results around. A little trickier, but doable, is calculating your most engaged supporters' social media reach: if they repost your post, how big is their network? Retweet you?

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

With data from 154 nonprofit participants, we are once again treated to invaluable insights on numerous facets of digital engagement, covering websites, email messaging, online engagement, social media posts, and digital ads. Even though online revenue grew last year and the year before, every individual email metric declined.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Gather demographic data, such as age, location, income level, and specific challenges or needs they face. Conduct surveys, focus groups, or analyze existing data to identify the most critical needs that align with your non-profit’s mission. First, identify your target audience. and expected outcomes or impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Use Data From Past Events to Set New Fundraising Goals. While there are certainly some best practices in fundraisers, looking at your data can help you see what’s working best for your nonprofit, because every nonprofit is unique. Use that data to set (and achieve) SMART goals for your nonprofit fundraising efforts!

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Education Virtual Fundraising Guide 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

For example, they know they are taking a survey or they know you are checking the engagement stats on your Facebook page. Consider a campaign that uses the engagement metrics on its Facebook posts to assess what voters think about an issue. They know their actions are being monitored. Why does this matter?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

To determine these target metrics, look to past events and other similar experiences from competitive organizations. These days, it’s rare to see an auction rely on the old-school method of paper bids. Leverage the mobile-bidding app and keep all of your attendee data in one place! Have a rehearsal or walkthrough.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Let’s explore key data visualization do’s and don’ts to transform your communication and align your team.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

It also keeps you organized by reducing data redundancy, tracking donor activity, and providing automatic reports. Kindful CRM Integration: Yes, you can integrate your Join It membership data with Kindful. Hidden fees or limitations: It’s genuinely free, but you limit yourself to simple data collection.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Payment processing methods: To handle financial transactions and ensure accurate donation processing. Mobile support: To access critical data and tools from anywhere, enabling efficient remote work and outreach. Reporting and analytics : To measure the impact of your activities and make data-driven decisions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Data drives ACS' fundraising tactics and success. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline. For nonprofits using new media, obtaining metrics can be difficult, because the type of data available is different than those available from traditional fundraising methods, but needs to be done.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

What methods of promoting your site already exist? What metrics will demonstrate a successful project? Success metrics for the Project. Stay tuned for my next post to learn about using Analytics data as a form of User Research. Surveys and Interviews. How do most people find out about your current web site?

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