Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Maybe your association is experiencing challenges, so you’re searching for strategies to empower your staff and enhance the member experience. Regardless of your large association’s situation, the Nimble AMS team is here to offer tips to measure your success and meet your future goals! We are very fortunate to have Nimble AMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. Any number of excellent software solutions and nonprofit tools exist to help with this kind of analysis.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Visionary leadership: The role of Executive Directors in nonprofit success The Executive Director (ED) of an arts and culture nonprofit is a visionary role tasked with being the architect of creating a vibrant culture for the community that nonprofit serves. Use online fundraising tools. Launch social media campaigns.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Looker is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to create, explore, and visualize data. Data Studio is a free data dashboarding tool from Google. Data Studio is a good option for nonprofits that are on a tight budget and need a basic tool for visualizing their data. Power BI is a data dashboarding tool from Microsoft.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

podcast Sharon Rice,org Source Director of Business Strategy , and I talked about these shifting dynamics. While social and economic factors make it harder to preserve that special relationship with our members, the good news is that we have great tools to apply to the task. That process is becoming more complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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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.​​ Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

The competition is open to organizations and collaborations working in any field, anywhere in the world, according to Chris Cardona, MacArthur’s managing director, discovery, exploration, and programs. An organizational readiness tool is available to help organizations determine whether they are ready to compete in 100&Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. In the book, we avoid talking about specific tools because they change so fast and new ones appear almost daily. And now, for those tips and tools: 1 – Get to Know Your Audience.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Instead, it brought in independent experts to understand why the measurements were so different.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

By Maria De La Guardia , design director and brand strategist at Bureau for Good , a design agency that helps nonprofits explain why they matter across digital and print media. We found an exponential growth in the use of technology by low-income people,” executive director Linda Bopp says. The web is always changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. While custom tabs might look nice and can be strategic, if you don’t measure – it’s a waste of time. Andrew Pulkrabek, the marketing director, worked with a designer. Why: Custom Landing Tabs. There is a more inviting welcome mat. The Techy Stuff.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. The 7 steps of measurement. What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Use this time of the year to audit your long-term plan to ensure it’s a powerful tool for your annual planning. Discover the importance of selecting diverse stories and storytellers to drive systemic cultural change, and learn how to measure the impact of messaging. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

3) Regularly measure the results of high net worth donor engagement. Your CRM tool can help you effortlessly track the staff member who solicited the big donor as well as the target solicitation amount, actual ask amount, amount received, and the number of touchpoints with that donor. Major gifts are a major deal.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

This evaluation measures the program’s efficacy and the grantee’s ability to achieve the proposed objectives. Executive Director or Board of Directors: Provides strategic direction for grantmaking activities, deciding which areas to focus on and approving major grant decisions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On top of it all is the reality that the diversity needle has not moved much in board of directors’ positions at nonprofit organizations. Board assessment tools comes in all shapes and sizes, and may include questions about the organizations mission, strategic direction, board meetings, supporting the CEO/ED and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn. Or if Google Analytics is a pain for you, you can track the traffic to each page through a shortening tool such as Bit.ly, which shortens each of the separate URLs and then allows you to view the clickthroughs on each.

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M+R

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Furiously re-tooling your projections. How will I be able to measure conversion rates and assess the strength of my program? Gwen is the Creative Director here at M+R. Here’s the situation: Google is depreciating support for third party cookies in 2023; Apple and Firefox have already made moves to phase out third party cookies.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Co-Founder and Executive Director. Here are three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can use to measure their success. Social Media for Nonprofits.

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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. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.”

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St. . “The value that volunteers provide our organization is tremendous. Paul and Minneapolis. “I Matthew’s House. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. So, imagine how I must have felt two years ago when I became the Executive Director of the Social Sector Accelerator.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

For the next few months, we’re taking an in-depth look at key features and tools that make for a successful development program. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Ideally, your perfect reporting tool combines the two.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The more accurate and insightful that executive directors and finance teams can be when predicting revenue, cost, and ROI, the better equipped their organization will be to sustain and grow its mission. Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Optimize grant management to ensure alignment with mission and efficient use of funds.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Your major giving efforts may be supported by these team members: Executive director. Development director. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. They set out to raise £750 for a new machine to measure oxygen levels in babies’ blood, but significantly exceed their original target. Get Planning Now.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits co-founder and executive director. In line with its focus on turning data into knowledge through powerful, insightful measurement and analysis of social media efforts, we wanted to share three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can put to work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

Data director Eric Dayton says their transformation work set them up to pivot strategically in 2020 when COVID-19 challenged every aspect of their model. He tells his teammates, “I’m not going to tell you what to do, but here are the tools, here’s the data. Dayton also says their data-driven culture empowers staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Since then, this practical tool has received great feedback and praise from our colleagues: Beth Kanter , author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media and co-author of “ The Networked Nonprofit ” says “It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps lift all the boats.”.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Director of Solution Development. Donors want metrics, the board wants key performance indicators, our staff want clear and measurable goals. The absolute focus on quantifiable measurements is harmful, but it is clear that in the right situation measurements are incredibly powerful tools. Sam Chenkin. Tech Impact.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Support these policies with management tools that help you stay on track with requirements and deadlines throughout the entire grant lifecycle. Build Confidence with the Right Tools An effective grant management process includes people from across your organization, including leadership, program, and finance. Highlight your community.

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