Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The framework is called: “facts-stats-trends” : Facts : Counts, or sums, of numbers. Meaning Making.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. Leaders who understand their numbers can keep their nonprofit financially healthy and easily explain their key stats to funders. Some leaders are inclusive, letting their team have input into decisions. Managing time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. If an organization does hire an evaluation specialist to help with measuring impact, what makes for a good relationship? board/staff meetings) and externally (i.e.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

The Italian mathematician Fibonacci wrote a book that popularized this revolutionary system in the 13th century; gradually Hindu-Arabic numerals began to replace Roman numerals for bookkeeping, facilitating the expansion of commerce and trade and, eventually, the rise of the modern financial system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. It is important to also consider the different contexts for the evaluation. We need metrics!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Technology facilitates smarter messaging, smarter asks, and more personalized experiences with our organization. With a rich and complete view of both our constituents and our outreach, we can set realistic goals, evaluate past outreach for trends and success, and identify targets in the pipeline as new potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. What do you do to facilitate it? Feedburner doesn't provide those. Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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