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.

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Take control of your data. There’s something important that you need to send targeted, personalized messages: data. Today’s more sophisticated peer-to-peer fundraising platforms can capture a wealth of participant, donor, and event data. Keep your data clean. Automate your targeted communications.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Why that’s a big deal and what happens now by Cathleen Clerkin and Shane Ward of Candid Our sector relies on 990 data to understand how trillions of dollars flow to drive impact. They also share how Candid turned this massive influx of data into insights to support the sector’s work. The 990s are here.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

So, let’s take a look at three areas where you can improve your peer-to-peer fundraising results: 1. Analyze your data – Take time to gather, analyze and use data from your past peer-to-peer campaigns or events to uncover trends and find new opportunities to improve your recruiting efforts. Recruit more participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. 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.”. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Read time: 4 minutes Are you done running reports for your 2023 year-end fundraising? Email fundraising has become increasingly difficult, but many of the organizations in our sample of 24 nonprofits saw strong results this December. Good, it’s time to start planning for 2024 year-end fundraising!

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Take control of your data. There’s something important that you need to send targeted, personalized messages: data. Today’s more sophisticated peer-to-peer fundraising platforms can capture a wealth of participant, donor, and event data. Keep your data clean. Automate your targeted communications.

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M+R

JANUARY 11, 2022

And the thing is, both of these activities expose our fundamental impatience — whether we’re sneaking a quick taste of pre-baked cookie dough or frantically hitting refresh on our fundraising results. . We’re hungry for data now. . In 2020, maybe your results fell (because COVID) or rose (because COVID). Hello, SEARCH!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 10, 2022

A study conducted by Edelman and Linkedin reported 65% of those surveyed said thought leadership content improved their perception of an organization. As a result of your thought leadership efforts, you’ll see an increase in member engagement and retention. Speak at events and conferences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns. An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images.

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Candid

APRIL 23, 2024

The data—looking at fiscal year 2022—showed that, although community foundation assets and fundraising revenues were both down from the previous year, grantmaking was up, demonstrating the resilience of community foundation giving. billion to community foundation-held DAFs in our sample, down 17% from over $11 billion in 2021.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nonprofit professionals are constantly being challenged to be more “data-driven” in their work. This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help. Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Understanding bias and harm Modern AI tools are trained on vast amounts of mostly human-generated data. In many cases, the training data is curated from the internet, with all the prejudices and biases of the humans creating it. Even in cases where subject matter experts carefully manage data, biases can creep in.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I quickly became responsible for identifying potential funding opportunities, grant-writing, stewardship efforts, and reporting to funders. I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Data from M+R , overall online giving revenue increased by 10% in 2019, and revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22%. Access to real-time reports with donor and transaction information for your CRM, and forecasted donations for the month. Use a multi-channel approach.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2010

Nancy Schwartz, president of Nancy Schwartz & Company and blogger at Getting Attention , has just finished analyzing data from a nonprofit marketing survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders, revealing that they are doing a poor job connecting with their audience and community. Too much jargon. I can’t even understand what we’re saying.”.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Using the toolkit’s free Reflection worksheet, gather data on your current revenue streams, audience, donor retention rates, and more. Donors are in the driving seat, with a plethora of giving options distributed across a smaller sample of the population. Why is 2023 the right time to focus on major giving?

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Candid

JULY 19, 2023

As a result, nonprofits were hit hard in multiple ways. Last month, Candid published results from the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, an annual survey of large U.S. Individual donors specifically cited inflation as a major reason why they expected to give less last year. private and community foundations. Here’s what we found.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2021

If not, is it compatible with 3 rd party syncing tools like Zapier that you can use to get both systems to talk to each other and sync actions or data? . How easy is it to see and run reports? . Can you easily add tags to contacts to document their acquisition source or engagement data? Customer support . Segmentation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

SAP Visual Intelligence software takes massive amounts of data and transforms it into colorful, easy-to-grasp visual displays. Users can input data in seconds with a couple of points and clicks. Drag and Drop for Visually Stunning Results. Try It Out and See if You're a Data Geek. The screenshots don't lie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight. How do we turn data into Insights? Know What Success Is.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

" For many of us, when it comes to incorporating data into our grantseeking strategies, "devilment" might have been right. How Data Can Improve Your Grantseeking. utilize data to build cutting-edge grant requests. find specific data to support your mission. This Is the Data You're Looking For.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I quickly became responsible for identifying potential funding opportunities, grant-writing, stewardship efforts, and reporting to funders. I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Using the toolkit’s free Reflection worksheet, gather data on your current revenue streams, audience, donor retention rates, and more. Donors are in the driving seat, with a plethora of giving options distributed across a smaller sample of the population. Why is 2023 the right time to focus on major giving?

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Gift Develop Measure Blackbaud 52

Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Here is a sampling of some advanced features and set-up tips that Craft recommends.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Some nonprofits are increasingly experimenting with combining wealth scoring, RFM market research, and additional behavioral and demographic data with the goal of building more precise predictive models for mid-level prospects. . Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . . Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Rigor is always important when building and using evidence — but rigor does not only mean using quantitative data or producing a result that can be assessed for statistical significance. What does it look like when you are collecting the right impact data, and making program decisions based on this data?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2013

Social Change can happen anywhere too, and Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward show you exactly how to put change into action through multi-channel campaigns in their 3-part webinar series. Heller Consulting recently issued a new report that share analysis of business intelligence (BI) apps for nonprofits. Everest, but mostly anywhere).

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

Analyze Your Data. Take time to gather, analyze, and use data from your past peer-to-peer campaigns or events to uncover trends and find new opportunities to improve your recruiting efforts. Plan to use data from previous campaigns or events to add personalized notes to your recruiting emails. Reach Beyond Your List.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2011

Topic : Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Join us at PRSA’s May luncheon on May 10 at Anthony’s Steakhouse where Amy Sample Ward, membership director for the Nonoprofit Technology Network, will provide information on how to be a good inbox guest and get results from email campaigns. Date : May 10, 2011.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

According to the world’s leading expert on planned giving, Dr. Russell James, data shows that 78% of Will documents that transfer dollars to charity tend to be signed by people in their 80s, 90s, and beyond. If you work with an agency, ask them why they’re reusing the same pack and demand to see the results it’s bringing in.

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