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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

As you use these questions to engage in dialogue with your board, it helps to remember that board members may have opinions and learned experience about what tools and systems are best. They may even have used similar systems in past roles or managed a large tech implementation at some point in their career. Try one (or both!)

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Let Data Drive Your Decisions

Bloomerang

Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” Unsurprisingly, most organizations collect data through forms, questionnaires, surveys, databases, and customer relationship management systems.

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Thursday Thoughts: transforming mid-level donors into major donors

EveryAction

The key is to make donors feel valued and appreciated while demonstrating the tangible benefits of deeper connection with and potential impact on your organization, through increased giving. CRMs Use constituent relationship management (CRM) systems to better understand patterns and track donor interactions, preferences, and giving history.

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What is your organization’s “One Metric That Matters”?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.” One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs.

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Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. In addition to tracking app deployments, Code for America has developed metrics that help them understand their impact on the governments they work with, the communities they engage, and the larger civic technology ecosystem.

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Digital Transformation: How to Identify and Rely on Your Partners, Advocates, and Champions

Forum One

In casual conversation, colleagues may gripe about the outdated tools and systems or the somehow-still-existent manual processes, but it can be difficult to upend systems that have been in place for years. By demonstrating to these colleagues how digital transformation will improve life at work for them, you’ll be able to sway opinion.

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How To Show The Value Of Your Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

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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