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. The ROI Methodology was implemented globally in the 1990s and since then has become one of the most used evaluation systems in the world, as it is used routinely in more than 6,000 organizations in 70 countries.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Board We, the ENA Board of Directors, will seek at all times to demonstrate: Excellence through collaboration, engagement, and accountability​​ Integrity through respect, compassion, and mindfulness A culture of inquiry while being inclusive, strategic, and visionary.​​ Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Leaders can use data to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of existing programs, showcasing success stories, participant feedback, and measurable outcomes. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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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. The ROI Methodology was implemented globally in the 1990s and since then has become one of the most used evaluation systems in the world, as it is used routinely in more than 6,000 organizations in 70 countries.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. They are the tiny moments that demonstrate how meaningful your work is. Check your metrics, focusing on overall numbers and growth. What’s working?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Feedback & Evaluation Benefits Don’t be confused: We’re not saying that you should offer to evaluate your members for free. The key will be demonstrating to members how their feedback has led to real changes and improvements. Let’s get at it!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. When you start searching your donor database for potential major donors, you’ll want to look at the three C’s of major prospects: the depth of their connection to your nonprofit, the concern they have demonstrated for your mission, and their capacity to give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Step 4: Create a System to Track, Evaluate, and Report Success. To maintain organizational buy-in throughout the year, it is critical that you create a system to track, evaluate, and report success on a quarterly basis. Pick one day a month and enter your metrics. A fourteenth column should then be inserted to list your goals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

European Foundation Week Session: Evaluating Foundation Activities: Lessons from Lavoro and Psiche - Organized by Fondazione Cariplo , 31st May 2010. This session focused on introducing a new approach to addressing social needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

Your community benefit manager is steeped in evaluation training and can help provide the metrics (and stories) that demonstrate your hospital’s commitment to community health. Amplifying community voices. At its core, addressing health disparities requires understanding the experience of different populations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2020

In fact, companies with digitally literate board members significantly outperformed their peers on key metrics. All this technology and data have made it possible for nonprofits to use a range of metrics to measure growth and performance. Not all metrics are KPIs. Not every metric can be “key.”. What is a KPI?

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. However, the last two years demonstrated that a hidden technology deficit can have devastating consequences. Hopefully, a crisis is not in your future.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. Audit your content to evaluate how well your website meets user search intent. Which strategies were most effective at attracting first-time donors?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

With the rise of social impact as a business metric, companies are more eager than ever to contribute to meaningful causes, yet many nonprofits don’t make the most of this fundraising avenue. Similar to traditional sponsorship agreements, they provide a structured avenue for companies to demonstrate their CSR commitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

The most important step to complete before getting started is to evaluate your organization’s needs. Before you settle on a solution, you’ll need to consider what type of events your team is likely to plan and if the apps you’re evaluating can accommodate the specific needs of each event. Understand your event’s needs.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

Organizations have shared more than 43,000 metrics, which demonstrate how nonprofits measure the difference they make in the world. . Who shares their metrics? . What kinds of metrics are shared? . Platinum Seal holders provide, on average, three metrics. The most frequently used metrics are : .

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Reporting ⁠— Look for software that provides detailed insights into matching gift progress, trends, and other relevant metrics. Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I’ve been on the board over a year and currently chair the Evaluation Committee. They have designed and implemented a good on-boarding experience for new members, helped codify and define board roles and tasks, and we even have do an annual assessment of our performance that gives us specific metrics on how we’re doing as a board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Perhaps you can individually evaluate the way the organization pays vendors or contractors and see if there are efficiencies to be found. Offer to be a role-play participant to demonstrate fundraising to the board. Inquire about affiliate marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The survey reported that more than 80% of nonprofit leaders say “nonprofits should demonstrate the effectiveness of their work by using performance measures,” and yet 71% say they receive no foundation support – monetary or otherwise — for their organization’s assessment efforts.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. You can break this into a few separate steps: Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. Event planning software : Planning events can be a lot like herding cats!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Since your planned donors have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they’re invested in your success, you can look to your planned donor list for major donor prospects. Why Implement It?

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. There are plenty of statistics that demonstrate that what is good for society is also good for business. trillion globally.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. How to Measure Success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 23, 2014

We measure to ensure that our practices are effective, and to demonstrate that to any number of stakeholders, from the donors who fund us to the constituencies we serve. Many have focused on uncovering new ways of gathering this data and new metrics for analyzing it. This is not without good reason.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

As the actions of the Digital Defense Fund, Color of Change, and NTEN demonstrate, nonprofit organizations cannot wait for Big Tech to prioritize privacy, safety, equity, and access—we have the agency to both advocate and make our own choices to center these values.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2016

Launched in April 2016, Refugee Mobile will conduct an evidence-based pilot study in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin to demonstrate the theory of change. Following the pilot phase of demonstration and learning, the program will enter a period of expansion and scaling. RefugeeMobile Pilots a New, Evidence-Based Approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But, for the most part, nonprofit dashboard reports, if they are measuring the right metrics, are useful tools. I made a suggestion in my blog post this morning that Transparency is the discipline of an organization to demonstrate its integrity. Certainly there were concerns initially, and there are limits to how open we can be.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

As they do so, more hospitals are deploying grantmaking programs that support nonprofit partners, tangibly demonstrate commitment to the community, and tackle entrenched problems facing vulnerable populations. Grants offer hospitals a tangible, powerful way to demonstrate their community support. Communicate a clear story.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And with a goal as ambitious and nebulous as elevating community well-being, how do we evaluate success? Initial data: Nearly every baseline survey conducted in the program’s first month demonstrated that 70% of respondents screened for significant levels of food insecurity as well as moderate chronic disease.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact." Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? It might be difficult for the nonprofits to drop the word investment and replace it with insight - only from the point of the view that the word "investment" translates in donations and funding.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Demonstrating impact, an essential part of any impact management strategy for nonprofit, and making change for good is the raison d’etre of every organization. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time. And better reporting means stronger donor trust. Real-time program data builds donor trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions. delivered).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The social media revolution has made it possible to count dozens of new indicators that don’t necessarily demonstrate impact. Maybe you haven’t quite narrowed down which metrics will be most important in the long run. It gives us license to experiment, knowing we will have hard facts to evaluate the results. Start where you are.

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