ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

posted by Terry McManus Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, TGen Foundation We all know the old adage “what gets measured gets done,” but knowing what to measure is easier said than done. These must be tracked and evaluated. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI! Fundraising outcomes (i.e.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. The problem might be something you’ve never considered. Could the issue be trust?

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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. You can use it to track donor behaviors based on like-minded groups. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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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. Her company helps mission-led businesses succeed, and also connect socially minded investors with “impact investing” opportunities, where they can generate both financial returns and social impact.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Before beginning a full rebrand, it’s worth evaluating why your nonprofit is considering this in the first place. For example, is there an issue with or aspect of your current branding that needs to be addressed to better connect with the hearts and minds of your audience? Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It’s important to keep in mind that this isn’t what you think they need. As your enterprise is founded and starts to grow, you’ll need to be able to measure your success. For a social enterprise, this is twofold: measuring the money, and measuring the social impact. Measuring social impact is a bit more difficult.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Be mindful of job hoppers. Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. Help create solidarity in your team with agreed-upon metrics.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. Calculating ROI of capital campaigns is an important way to measure the effectiveness of your fundraising and the performance of your strategies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

I can enlighten my mind, enliven my spirit, and experience what I couldn’t before. But do they measure the real impact we’re making in the lives of our beneficiaries? Can attribution hold up when it comes to measuring the human experience of hope, self-worth, or reconciliation? Data is now a core resource.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . Be Mindful of Your Participants’ Time. “ Zoom fatigue is real, so it’s important when creating a virtual fundraising event to be mindful of duration and timing, as well as ensuring that all content offered within your event provides value and actionable takeaways.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In the language of Google Ads, donations are one of the most valuable conversions an organization can measure. A conversion is any measurable action that a visitor takes on your website. Keep in mind, however, that you should measure meaningful conversions. Common measurements include: Time spent on your site.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Keep in mind that successfully carrying out a powerful fundraising strategy requires a strong partnership between your organization’s marketing and fundraising staff. Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. 10 steps to build your fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Prospecting. Inquire about affiliate marketing.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

Keep event flexibility in mind. The most important step to complete before getting started is to evaluate your organization’s needs. Before you settle on a solution, you’ll need to consider what type of events your team is likely to plan and if the apps you’re evaluating can accommodate the specific needs of each event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2011

Yesterday, I blogged about the &# Valid Metrics Framework &# from the AMEC that provides a suggested guide post for selecting the right metrics to measure social media in the context of an integrated communications campaign. . Source: HBR = Branding in a Digital Age.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This could involve: Running digital ads on a consistent daily/weekly basis to stay top-of-mind. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. Growing your community of supporters is the only measure that matters.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Unclear expectations, performance metrics, and goals. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. Fitness and mindfulness challenges.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. Keep in mind that donors give because they’re passionate about your mission. There are two primary parts of a solicitation to keep in mind: the meeting setting and the language you use to ask for a donation. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time.

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

For each of these recommendations, remember that while it’s essential to be decisive in your physical and digital marketing strategies , it’s just as important to consider your options, evaluate your existing plans, and be thoughtful about any changes in your approach. Let’s jump in! Prepare ahead of time. Automate your event marketing.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs. Strengthened brand reputation.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. And with a goal as ambitious and nebulous as elevating community well-being, how do we evaluate success? There are many ways to measure program success.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 23, 2014

Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are looking for new ways to measure (and thereby validate) the importance of their work. Our organizations have been measuring outputs in one way or another for as long as there has been philanthropy. Many have focused on uncovering new ways of gathering this data and new metrics for analyzing it.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

So what are some ways that you can make your brand top of mind, quite internally? At Media Cause, we do this by making our company values part of how we evaluate and review employees. Bottom line: if you want to stick in the minds of your audience, stick closely to your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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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. Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. Be mindful of remaining “strategic” (have we used this word enough?),

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Consider how much you should raise to effectively help your mission while keeping your budget in mind. . Measure all fundraising metrics. No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Realistic fundraising goal.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Having a dollar amount in mind that you feel confident about will help ease that tension. Takeaway Having a specific gift amount in mind can help you go into your ask with more confidence.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

They don’t have to be tangible gifts; offering opportunities to get together with other like-minded folks who share their values is plenty and can be greatly enjoyed and appreciated. Establish clear success metrics. To ensure you’re meeting your objectives, measure customer satisfaction. Then offer rewards for being a member.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Use metrics, and when you can't, stay rigorous. Private companies measure success using KPIs like ROI and sales goals. These kinds of clear metrics aren't always possible for nonprofits; however, establishing clear objectives for measuring success is just as important to nonprofits. Conclusion.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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.” Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? The closest thing I've seen is a little utility called Twitinfluence - it measures an individual users Twitter network based on the following: First and Second Order Networks. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But, for the most part, nonprofit dashboard reports, if they are measuring the right metrics, are useful tools. so these important metrics are frequently brought back to mind as they continue to track and update them online. Tags: Arts & Technology evaluation scholar transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Sometimes that trust is measured through email performance metrics like open rate, click-through rate, or donor-response rate. Other times, we might measure that trust with the amount of replies we get from an email. Element 1 – The Sender. Senders have a huge impact on the trust that is being built with a donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. And both can be difficult to measure. So it may hurt productivity. Less frustration perhaps.

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