Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A key component of finishing the calendar year off strong is to ensure that you are reporting on what you’ve achieved and identifying where there is room to grow. As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Your members can provide you with a lot of data about what they are interested in and how well your association is meeting their needs. This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

Membership retention rates for nonprofits vary widely. If you want to improve your membership retention rates, you need to nurture and build your member relationships consistently. What’s Affecting Your Membership Retention Rate? Your membership retention rate is the percentage of people who renew their memberships each year.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s dive into how learning analytics can drive engagement, improve course completion rates, identify gaps in learning programs, and optimize the learning experience. Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery.

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

In fact, matching gift emails sent in the first 24 hours after a donation result in 2-3 times higher than the average nonprofit email open rate ! Apple matches gifts made by full- and part-time employees between $1 and $10,000 at a 1:1 rate.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on what would be considered a good new donor acquisition rate. Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering if you have a data point readily available in your brilliant brain? I know about donor retention rates, goals, etc., The 2020 report showed an 18.5%

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Fundraisers often have a love/hate relationship with fundraising CRM reports. Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Let’s find out how to achieve that level of reporting Zen consistently.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here, we share recommendations on effective feedback practices, based on research we carried out with the Irritants for Change , a group of feedback experts and nonprofit rating and information-sharing platforms. If you can trust the data to be representative, you can trust it to yield actionable insights.

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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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sgEngage

AUGUST 1, 2023

Rather than merely hoping you’re making a wise marketing spend—or simply doing what you have always done—it’s time to let the data drive your direct mail marketing programs. When you allow data to guide your direct mail strategy, your organization can save time and money. Direct mail makes for better retention rates.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

updates were expected to have on the amount of granular data available from digital ad clicks, nonprofits that adapt metrics and goals to meet the moment may find ads are still a useful part of omni-channel campaigns. Those kinds of results help explain why we’re seeing organizations add mobile messaging to their omni-channel repertoire.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2021

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? A chorus of voices have been beating the drum about the importance of donor retention through their research, in blogs, and in webinars—with stagnant results. . Because according to the FEP, the 2020 repeat donor retention rate was 59.6%—whereas I’d bet not. .

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Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

year-over-year in June 2022—the highest rate in over 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—we asked foundations how inflation would affect their operations. We should note that annual salary changes may not coincide with or immediately follow changes in inflation rates, given that salary review processes take time.

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Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the number of data collection tools available on the internet for little or no cost, it’s tempting to inundate members with surveys about everything from the color of the annual meeting theme to crucial issues like dues increases or social issues. It’s why your response rate to surveys dwindles over time. PUHLEEZE. ” Nonmembers?

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

There are simple steps that organizations can take to obtain even better results. While nonprofits are aware that setting up their account the right way can improve results, they often don’t realize that improving their website can also help lead to better results from Google Ads.”

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At the conclusion of every acquisition campaign , you should do a thorough review of the campaign’s results. Taking time to read spreadsheets or reports full of data can be time consuming and overwhelming. The good news is, if you know where to look, there are actionable insights hidden in your acquisition results.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

According to the 2019 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report , online giving grew 6.8% It’s also worth noting that according to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 10% of donors worldwide prefer to give directly through their bank account. per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report.

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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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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s ever-changing landscape of nonprofit organizations, effective volunteer management is crucial for achieving impactful and sustainable results. A study by the Corporation for National and Community Service found that nonprofits that regularly use volunteer surveys are more likely to have higher volunteer retention rates.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. Also, Google defaults to the most recent month’s worth of data. What to do with?

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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. Raising funds and winning grants is difficult and requires significant staff time and resources.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2022

Bloomerang, the complete donor management solution for thousands of small and medium-sized nonprofits, today announced that it has been identified as the leader in the Spring 2022 Mid-Market Grid® Report for Fundraising by G2 , the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. Best Results. Best Support. Most Implementable.

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M+R

APRIL 27, 2023

This year we are serving up data from 215 amazing nonprofit partners, with a refreshing mix of fundraising, advocacy, engagement, and marketing. Total online revenue for nonprofits decreased by 4% in 2022 , and nonprofits reported especially sharp drops in revenue on Giving Tuesday and December 31. Also: we say goodbye to open rates!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. What do we mean by “data?”. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. Odds are, LinkedIn Analytics will evolve to become some of the most useful data in your social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

By Josh Kashorek , Director of Marketing at Journity , and advocate for using data to create high-performance nonprofit marketing campaigns. 2) Conversion Rates. The mention of conversion rates often makes nonprofit pros cringe, because it sounds technical, like some jargon a marketer would use. 3) Engagement. 5) Retention.

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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. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

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. . Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its own challenges: extensive reporting mandates, a list of requirements to qualify for funding, and the possibility of mission creep to meet those requirements. Adopt a robust fund accounting system.

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Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. Compared to past years, the 2020 report was as unique as the year itself. The overall 2020 donor retention rate was 43.6%, a 4.1% The Bad News. to an average of 19.2%.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

The Average Nonprofit Has a 29.58% Email Open Rate In our latest research, The Nonprofit Email Report: Data-Backed Insights for Better Engagement , we analyzed over 37,000 nonprofit email campaigns sent by Neon One clients. This is crucial data for fundraisers who include email marketing in their fundraising approach.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

That said, very few organizations actively promote tribute giving and doing so would likely a result a steady revenue stream. Baby Boomers are the generation most likely to give as a result of direct mail/post (18%) , but overall, all generations are becoming more homogeneous and tech-based in their giving habits.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2021

Discussion of the digital space is often quite dominated by a US-centric perspective, but the kind of data we share in Benchmarks is only useful to the extent that it’s relevant to your experience. Most email metrics—including open rates, click-through rates, response rates, and page completion rates—improved in 2020.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Research and reports are helping members navigate the future and create amazing member value. For example, AAPACN has research that shows having at least one AAPACN-certified nurse at a skilled nursing facility improves quality outcomes and increases reimbursement rates. The BMI and CASE report data from members around the world.

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