Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social. This is one way communications and there is nothing social about it. Focus on Target Audiences.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind. The next step is to develop everything from scratch, including performing integrations with all of your other software platforms and building all the dashboards and visualizations for your performance metrics.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program. Proper documentation and tracking of moves management can impact your fundraising in many ways. Step 2: Define and Document Your Procedures.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Meta will provide limited transaction reports but no longer issue tax documentation. The loss of recurring donations and tax documentation from Meta could impact donor relationships and retention. Changes to reporting mean nonprofits will have less insight into Meta donation data and metrics. Nonprofits rely on this funding.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. This is not a long process.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2023

Have a Plan to Review Your Policies and Documentation It’s easy for your documentation to get outdated throughout the year, so reviewing important documents prior to your audit can save you time and headache. Many organizations leave your internal controls documentation on autopilot until there is an issue.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Once the event has wrapped up, update your corporate partner on the following: Event metrics , including how much was raised and how many people were in attendance. Explain how their support made an impact and how you’ll use the donations raised to power change in your community.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Collect digital marketing KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics used to measure your digital marketing success. Here are a few digital marketing metrics to start monitoring: Website traffic Conversions from each digital marketing channel Social media engagement (e.g., Creating training documents and video tutorials.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. This usually means identifying key metrics that you have been using—or want to be using—to measure your organization’s success.

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TechImpact

JUNE 3, 2014

Now that you’ve collected pertinent data, and discovered some interesting metrics, your nonprofit has the opportunity to ask and answer some important questions. Make sure all your hard work is well documented in a spreadsheet, that’s been backed up on a cloud or external hard drive. Analyze that data.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedman’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people transition to citizenship and documented millions of federal records relating to the refugees, freedmen, and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War. By viewing projects as products, it becomes easier to track usage or feedback metrics over time.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

A set of rules, metrics, or policies established by an organization to bring clarity and ease of use to data practices is a data governance policy. Additional resources: This section serves as a place for additional documentation or referenced regulations. . What is data governance? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Begin by creating a list of the online communications and fundraising systems that need to be reviewed and then create a document that lists the systems and bullet points the plus and minuses of each system. Your budget should be an Excel document that visualizes monthly and annual totals. Pick one day a month and enter your metrics.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. Metrics: Select quantitative measurements like Pageviews, New Users, or Conversions. 2021-01-31), relative dates (e.g.,

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Remember, a successful fundraising plan is a dynamic document. Monitor progress, track key metrics, and be prepared to adapt your strategies as needed. . * 1 week before: Confirm speakers—emcee, special appeal speaker/s. Review the event night timeline and script in detail at your program rehearsal.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A fundraising plan is a document that outlines the strategies you will use to raise money for your nonprofit. Critical Fundraising Metrics to Increase Donor Retention. Take these metrics into consideration and make sure your organization is on track to increase donor retention and net more money.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2021

Your content strategy is a living document that should be adjusted and optimized on a regular basis. Keeping track of those metrics, and making sure they are meaningful , can be difficult. The goals and metrics outlined in your content strategy should be reflected in your measurement plan. Set clear goals, tactics, and KPIs.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Twitter analytics Facebook insights Instagram insights LinkedIn analytics TikTok analytics Once you have exported data from the last year, sort posts by the metric you’re most interested in, such as engagement, reach, or link clicks. If you haven’t exported your data before, here are how-to guides for major platforms.

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 98

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. We then compared that emotional polarity score with the organizations’ financial data from the 990 tax documents. After finding our 200 nonprofits, we created a spreadsheet where we recorded their names, websites, and each organization’s mission statement.

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Donation Language Homeless Statistics 137

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

Strengthening continuity plans; updating and expanding hiring and onboarding documentation. Creating more internal documentation and materials to ensure effective and efficient replication for the next call for committee applications and consistency across staff committee leads. 2022 focus. 2022 focus.

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Community NTC Sponsor NTEN 88

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2011

I’ve documented the community and content mapping processes before, you can use the slides above to see the process or review the blog post with instructions. Metrics Tracking template! Analytics and Metrics. Community & Content. You can also use these links to get the templates: Community Mapping template.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Now that you’ve collected the data from years past and reflected on it alongside colleagues across departments, you can document your development activities and the challenges or learning experiences that arose. Establish the metrics that will determine which elements work, and which offer opportunities for improvement.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report. This year’s industry report includes a new volunteer by group size metric that allows companies to analyze how employee populations like to contribute volunteer hours.

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Disaster Social North America Companies 92

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Are there reports you can schedule that would save you time by communicating key metrics to stakeholders before they ask for that information? Document any processes you don’t already have highlighted. Review any documented processes to see if there were any updates over the past year. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Pre-Award Stage Generating Grant Guidelines Developing grant guidelines requires creating a comprehensive outline of the grant’s objectives, eligibility requirements, application procedure, and evaluation metrics. In order to ensure compliance, these documents are often reviewed by legal professionals before signature.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure your internal control documentation includes the naming conventions, so your audit team doesn’t have to slow down the process by asking what specific entries are. Are there reports you can schedule that would save you time by communicating key metrics to stakeholders before they ask for that information?

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Foundation Build Fund Review 78

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Now that you’ve collected the data from years past and reflected on it alongside colleagues across departments, you can document your development activities and the challenges or learning experiences that arose. Establish the metrics that will determine which elements work, and which offer opportunities for improvement.

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Gift Develop Measure Blackbaud 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. Powerful platforms like Bloomerang also allow you to create donor segments for more targeted research and communications, view donor engagement and generosity metrics per supporter, and track fundraising campaign progress. Email marketing software. Wrapping up.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 14, 2014

Instead of having to share documents back and forth, or constantly request the latest version of a spreadsheet, everyone on your team will be working from the same fluid software using a cloud. CRMs make metric reporting easy, and most CRMs can even generate reports. It breeds continuity between your team.

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Calendar Social Media Integration Tech 137

Achieve

OCTOBER 28, 2021

recommends a few key metrics that most nonprofits can benefit from tracking during their peer-to-peer campaigns: . The first metric can indicate if there is a particular time of year in which your campaigns are more effective at driving donations. . Make sure you have these documents ready for your volunteers! Gift frequency.

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Hints Campaign Tech Integration 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the most valuable is to incorporate a process evaluation, capturing what actually happened as the event or program unfolded. You can always learn from documenting as an event unfolds and having a formal reflection or debrief post program or event. How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics?

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Evaluation and Reporting: Assessing the event’s success by analyzing key metrics, gathering feedback, and preparing post-event reports to inform future planning and improvement. Knowledge Transfer: Provide thorough documentation, including event files, contact lists, budget details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The workshop shared a landscape analysis of what’s already out there from the various industries in order to build a clear understanding of what’s in place and what isn’t in terms of social media measurement valid metrics. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). I asked Sean on Twitter why they didn’t collect metrics like membership numbers or visitors to the physical building? Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When it comes to helping our users, therefore, what matters to us first and foremost is empowering these individuals to prosper and advance their own goals, not so much optimizing for one metric or another that might not even truly measure our mission goals. Being more adaptive and less rigid also creates the opportunity for serendipity.

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Data Classroom Measure Accessibility 168

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. Base this on your documented research, and follow it carefully! . Measure all fundraising metrics. Segment donors.

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98