Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. It’s time for your association to take advantage of the Fresh Start Effect. This is considered an implicit data collection method.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Are you ready to maximize your fundraising efforts and see real results? Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

How effective fundraising drives nonprofit success The intersection where fundraising and nonprofit success meet is a dynamic convergence where strategic efforts create a positive impact. Essential tools and tips for aspiring Executive Directors As an Executive Director, you’ll need several resources for effective fundraising.

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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). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.”

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

This versatility ensures that the testimonials can be effectively utilized across various platforms. For instance, donor testimonials can be particularly effective in fundraising materials, while client stories may be more impactful in community outreach. Include their name (if they consent) and affiliation to your organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement. Measuring impact and managing outcomes is at the core of the work performed by nonprofits, academia, foundations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) teams, and more. Field (i.e.,

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Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. With rates below 20% for the first time ever, it’s likely to assume that the rise of transactional methods of giving (SMS, peer-to-peer , social media, etc.) The Bad News.

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CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2024

You should try to continually measure and evaluate your donation pages to see what is and isn’t working for you. This will help you make decisions about any changes you would like to implement and to measure whether these changes are effective. You can run your donation page through Google Search Console to test it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. 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.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization. The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. Unexpectedly, we found that the results depended on an organization’s size. For our first project,?

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measures of how much money your fundraising events are raising, how your audience is growing, and which parts of your event are the most successful. The resulting number is a percentage that will tell you how much money you made back on every dollar spent. Cost-to-Revenue Ratio.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

Seven contact attempts over six months, via at least two contact methods. When you make disqualification a frequent exit on your fundraising journey, the resulting churn will help you make space for future potentially qualified prospects. This marks the end of the qualification road for one nonprofit organization. At least for now.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even without this research, you’ve likely intuited that an effective mission statement draws supporters and donors in and gets them excited about helping you achieve that mission. . The results have me rethinking how mission statements affect a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. We then ran the following studies using this data.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Metric Formula or Method Outcome achievement rate This is the percentage of attempted outcomes successfully achieved.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Many nonprofits across the country see great results from their marketing efforts. As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Collect the information you need about your audience to create effective content. Conducting user research. Performing audits.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Here’s what it takes to create an effective, strategic end-of-year giving campaign. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound) fundraising goals are not only great to help you fulfill your funding needs and set motivating deadlines, for example, but also to evaluate your campaign’s success. Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Analyzing Marketing Results. First, let’s go over the basics of the main methods your organization can use as a part of your marketing plan. Refresh your website with recent pictures, fundraising updates, and results of your work. Preferred method of communication. Analyzing Marketing Results . Social media.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 8, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why post-event follow-up matters and provide you with effective strategies to do it right. Gathering Data for Informed Decision-Making Measuring Fundraising Success Evaluate the total amount of money raised and breakdowns of different revenue streams such as ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 20, 2024

Our latest Philanthropic Pulse Survey results, released in April, outline how nonprofits performed quarter-by-quarter in 2023. Shift in Giving Patterns Donors are changing how they give, with more donations coming from donor advised funds (DAFs), IRA distributions, or other non-traditional methods.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Digital marketing is often a cost-effective option for organizations because there are many free online tools to help you create content and track your campaigns. Email campaigns An oldie but a goodie, email continues to stand out as one of the most effective communication channels for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Buhlig shared how the ASU Foundation is using AI deep learning, “For us to be more efficient and effective at our work, we want to understand what the interests of our donor population. Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Apply those lessons to general advertising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

Today, nonprofit organizations need to be able to show the results of their efforts. Board members, consumers, community members, and staff alike want to know if the services provided are making a difference and if the results really outweigh the costs. an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? Click here!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There are many reasons why direct mail donor acquisition can be a compelling fundraising tool that produces results that digital methods simply cannot. Fundraising Nonprofit Email Marketing: Is Email More Effective Than Direct Mail? The Benefits of Direct Mail for Donor Acquisition What’s so appealing about direct mail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Take a look at any nonprofit dashboard and the most effective ones probably have an organizational process that lies beneath. Dashboard design should also inspire buy-in and continuous improvement by using “ human centered design ” methods.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The organizations that measure and demonstrate action and performance against their commitments can improve trust with their stakeholders and increase market share, while reducing the cost of customer acquisition, the cost of recruiting, and employee turnover. Today, consumers, investors, employees and the community want to see results.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Once you have a clear mission, set both short-term and long-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). conduct research Gather data on your current supporters Review your nonprofit’s existing data, such as donor records , volunteer information, and past survey results.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The Connect Effect by Michael Dulworth. It includes a tool that helps measure your networking skills and also lots of methods to help you identify, expand, and use your network to improve your knowledge and work. 4. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today brings the new book, All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results , by Cynthia Owyoung. Because most companies have yet to develop and implement effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives. Measuring diversity is about representation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Wealth screening has traditionally been a go-to method for identifying potential major donors , but it overlooks the essential factor that determines a person’s likelihood to give: Generosity. Together these two measures can give you a good idea of how they can contribute to your organization. The results?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Just like you’re more likely to purchase something that is presented in a visually appealing way at a store, making your auction look nice can result in a higher perceived value and higher bids! For example, you could present your auction as an effective way to get more involved with your cause to new donors. Procure auction items.

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