NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Time is a luxury we don't have in our line of work -- which is why I think so many of us resist evaluation. Why would you reflect on how you feed people when you could just go feed people? Evaluation helps us do our work better, and we all want to do our work better. Of course, we know better.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation. You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. The problems will be much worse if SMS streams are used to try to measure public violence.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

With applications that feed directly into the grants management system, funders can easily run reports to see if they are meeting their goals for a diverse set of grantees. Look for ways to add specificity and remove complexity. As Tonia shared on the webinar, “Simple applications well-considered can help you make rapid decisions.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

To people scrolling through their feed, there is no number of likes portrayed on posts. Greater ROI Generation: The number of likes would not measure a business’s performance. Now with no like measurements, the user is going to click on the link. Data Privacy and Measurement: Likes will only lose visibility for the public.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Effective impact measurement and reporting: Nonprofits rely on data warehouses to track and measure their impact over time. Evaluate the quality, consistency, and relevance of the data to be integrated into your data warehouse. Then, pick your consultant and begin working together!

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Feeding America.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy. Understanding the metrics behind social media is key to evaluating the success of your social media and help you fine-tune your approach as you go. Higher reach.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 21, 2019

With measurable, attainable goals—both long-term and short-term—your volunteers will feel the difference they’re making firsthand. Short-term goals will motivate volunteers during each individual session (for example, we want to feed X-many people today). Make sure you’re documenting your goals, too. Make it fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). If a candidate won’t run again or if a political committee for a ballot measure or some other effort is winding down, approach them about distributing some funds to your charity. Help uncover compelling or creative stories of impact to use in fundraising. Inquire about affiliate marketing.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our diversity and inclusion efforts also feed our mission toward advancing social good. Can you talk about how Blackbaud measures the success of their goals? These metrics, that include D&I data, help investors evaluate companies based upon criteria broader than just mere numbers. It allows us to “walk the talk”!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. 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.” Some people say, “Specific, measurable, action-driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.) Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

while providing them with the essentials they need,” said Andrea Scallon, Director of Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning, Miriam’s Kitchen. The manual process that we used to measure our program before investing in VolunteerHub was time-consuming and prone to error. said Melanie McKean, Development Director, Preble Street. “We

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Qgiv provides extensive reporting and analytics, allowing you to evaluate the effectiveness of your campaigns and make data-driven decisions. FundHub Live allows you to screencast your fundraising thermometer during events and show an activity feed that features your donors’ messages from their text donations.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. The best way to measure that growth is with Google Analytics.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. If you don’t have a formal strategy, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your individual fundraising efforts and campaigns. You can schedule posts in advance on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to ensure that you’re consistently appearing on followers’ feeds.

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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. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Create goals that are specific and measurable to ensure that the stories you tell are purposeful (“specific” and “measurable” just so happen to be the first two letters in the S.M.A.R.T. These supporting materials will help your story catch people’s eye in a crowded social media feed or email inbox. goals acronym).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Feed digest. obama reach vs local reach. industry benchmarks.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

s not only helps you plan ahead, but gives you a baseline to measure success against throughout the year. When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. Creating an year-long strategy with clearly stated goals/. for inspiration.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Feed people? How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Use a tool like Buffer to schedule posts and keep your feeds fresh. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference. How will yours make a difference? Will you: Find homes for dogs in need of families? Provide housing to survivors of domestic violence?

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

Having strong sample sizes is important for almost all experiments, but it’s particularly important for tests like this where the phenomenon we’re measuring is “noisy”—the decision to contribute is complicated and lots of factors feed into it. Make It Yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2015

Yesterday, I participated in two seemingly unrelated events that generated that question. Fitbit and fitness/health apps offer many benefits — they help us become more aware of our healthy habits by measuring and producing data. All in all, an inspiring day and evening. Innovation Walking'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Take Breaks.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

The pillars range from leadership to management to evaluation for mission effectiveness. The history of performance measurement and management for most nonprofits has been driven by external requests from funders to produce data for accountability and compliance purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). It's like measuring 'friendship'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Good for you! Great work.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Evaluation. logs and evaluation forms â?? Leave a Comment.

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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2021

Wealth screening is the process of evaluating your potential donor pool to identify wealthy individuals. However, wealth factors aren’t the only measure you should consider while conducting prospect research. . One gift of $50 can feed a family of four for a week! . Don’t underestimate the power of affinity indicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A few months N-TEN, an organization that supports the nonprofit technology field, disclosed the results of its internal evaluation to measure success of its programs and invited readers to interpret the meaning. Update: Reading my feeds this morning, found that authenticity and transparency were the topic in a few other blog posts.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

If you think your email inbox is cluttered, check out the average Facebook news feed. . Like any email action, you’ll want to measure the results to see if it makes sense to do it again. Of course, as with other kinds of Facebook ads, you can try them out with a small spend and evaluate the results.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? For instance, if you run a food bank and you are actively planning to double the number of people you feed in the next year, how will that affect operations? Evaluation Plan. This can be a separate section, or evaluation methods can be added to various other sections. How much will it cost?

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