EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! Remember: one size doesn’t fit all. These four are key: 1.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

Understanding Program Management Statistics Whether you’re assessing future needs or composing an annual report to share with donors, funders, and community members, conducting impact assessment is crucial for tracking progress and driving continued on-the-ground impact. Project your future needs and allocate resources accordingly.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Annual Reports are a staple of nonprofit life, but are they worth it? To avoid costly Annual Report mistakes and produce a valuable piece of collateral for your organization, take some cues from a few of 2018's stand-out annual reports, and download our comprehensive guide to creating a nonprofit annual report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Now we need to find out not only what works, but what works best over time.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” Avinash Kaushik has a name for trying to report too many things: data puking. ” Here’s a quick review of both books. That’s the OMTM.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Leaders can use data to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of existing programs, showcasing success stories, participant feedback, and measurable outcomes. However, by pulling reports that combine your donor acquisition versus retention numbers, you show that the donor base has never increased by more than 10% in a year.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

Apple Mail Privacy Protection works by pre-loading email content — including open tracking pixels. Reminder, email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in email content. Some of these opens are people, some are Apple, and added together you get the sum total of every time your open tracking pixel has been downloaded.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. It’s clear to us from this year’s report, that digital engagement has taken some important leaps forward for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. per dollar in online revenue.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, organizations can demonstrate growth and impact to donors while strengthening their commitment to the mission. Donor Management: All donation platforms should provide reports and real-time tracking information for every gift, including recurring donations.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Once you have completed your online communications and fundraising audit and have a better understanding of your capacity to implement your social media fundraising strategy, allocate four to six weeks to write your strategic plan and create your budget and a system for tracking and reporting success. Step 3: Create a Budget.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Have your development team set a few search alerts up to streamline opportunity tracking! How Nonprofits Can Win Corporate Sponsorships Collecting and reporting data that demonstrates the success of your partnership will be key to winning and retaining corporate sponsors for your nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Measurable: Ensure your goal is measurable to track progress and success. This might include reaching a certain fundraising amount or achieving specific metrics like email open rates or donation page conversions. The average nonprofit has a 28.59% email open rate, while small organizations report open rates as high as 45.7%.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 14, 2021

Capturing key engagement and donation metrics will help you to understand whether your new direction is working or if you need to try something else. . Define what you are trying to accomplish with the new strategy so you know whether or not you’re on the right track. Eager to learn more about tools that can help you fundraise?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives. These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

For example, you might want to sell tickets to your association’s virtual event on your e-commerce page and track sales data in your database. Because these apps work as an extension of your Salesforce features, your reports will reflect that information and provide a positive experience for registrants. Reports and dashboards.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Nonprofits usually report retention as a percentage. Along the way, it’s key to track and analyze your campaign’s performance data. Use Google Analytics to track metrics like unique visitors, pageviews, backlinks, and more to identify how to create compelling online content. While different, these concepts are related.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Go with someone who demonstrates professionalism in communications, who answers your questions clearly, and who seems to have the right experience for the work you need done. Use a project management too l like Trello or Asana to keep track of deadlines and progress. In short, treat them like you would like to be treated.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The goal of the project is to give operators of public access computer centers the data they need in order to demonstrate the critical importance and impact of providing Internet to people. OneRoof provides daily, weekly, and monthly graphic reports on a wide variety of metrics, including: Computer utilization. Tallies sales.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Create a master community benefit cost center across the system so that financial transactions can be tracked and shared in real time. A master community benefit cost center also makes end of year financial reporting easier, such as completing a Schedule H. See how technology makes reporting easier. Consider the “WHY. ”.

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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.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Even if your donor profiles aren’t 100% complete, start your search for potential major donors off on the right track by working from information that’s as current as possible. 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.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

If people can absorb and process event content in the manner and pace that suits them, they will feel more positively about the experience and report a deeper understanding of the material and a deeper connection with your brand. . Data-Driven Lead Tracking. Some of the data you should track includes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It’s still scary to set quantifiable goals for a project and report on whether we reached them. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking. The social media revolution has made it possible to count dozens of new indicators that don’t necessarily demonstrate impact. I started with this basic tracking worksheet.

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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. Dashboards go beyond just reporting financial results as this post from the Blue Avocado explains. The total value of our endowment took a significant beating as demonstrated in the online statistic.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Define success metrics before starting campaigns. Keep an ongoing dashboard of metrics updated regularly. Specific and easy to assess. Measure actionable items.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 3, 2021

They reimagined their in-person campaign events to be held virtually and utilized Philanthropy Cloud’s real-time reporting to spur enthusiasm among employees to reach their goals. Create goals for any initiatives you roll out and metrics for tracking their progress and success. Scaled Efforts.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Now more than ever, we have the opportunity to demonstrate how a strong donor relations effort contributes to fundraising. Be sure, especially during these trying times, to report on impact.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 5, 2022

Improvement in email metrics: by allowing your prospects to opt-in to the topics they’d like to hear about, it follows that your emails should receive higher engagement rates, such as open and click-through-rate. Some of our clients utilize the Interest Object in Salesforce to track which topics their prospects are interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

. “Take away the (NonProfit) status if you can’t demonstrate public good!” 2 What is the metric to track. “Reporting requirements should be commiserate with the size of the grant.” Advice for Nonprofits To Get Started with Measurement. kantersea 1 Define success. ” Preach @ janemeseck

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. Also, I think a lot of nonprofits are in the early implementation stage and to be able to get to traditional ROI - they need experience guided by tracking insights and metrics. Improvement in marketing efficiency. Do you agree?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Whether for membership and volunteer management, communications, promotion, or revenue tracking, the information we collect comprises one of our most critical assets and is central to realizing our missions. Having an excellent memory enables you to measure progress, identify new objectives, and demonstrate results to prospective donors.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

It’s all about targets and numbers and metrics. Almost 30% of major donors reported that their first gift to an organization was under $250. Focusing your attention on people who are deeply motivated to give will make you most successful— 44% of affluent donors report giving donations due to a personal connection to a cause.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

We have even published the Online Community Report newsletter for 13 years (yikes). Metrics and Reporting. Social media offer great opportunities for gathering useful metrics. We have set up comprehensive social media reporting systems for a number of clients. it is possible to watch outputs (posts, tweets, etc.)

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