NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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See3

JULY 1, 2010

Now everyone is asking us how to measure video Return on Investment (ROI). Video ROI is a topic we think a lot about at See3 and, unfortunately, there isn’t a simple answer or one that fits every organization. It used to be that everyone was asking us for a “viral” video. Generally, we [.].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time. Which assets are most of our partners leveraging and finding value in?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Many organizations struggle with the idea of ROI and metrics when it comes to social media because so much of it feels, well, untouchable. So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? So, how do we measure those items? It’s soft and maliable and relative, pretty much all of the time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the process was published.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the process was published.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. How is ROI calculated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The best performing organizations and their partners smartly evaluate short- and long-term opportunities to integrate, reapply, and scale.”. – Mohan Sivaloganathan , Chief Development Officer of ESS of NYC. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI. What is your nonprofit doing to generate long-term ROI?

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Year-over-year strategic planning includes changes in operations, processes, initiatives, measurement of impact and outcomes, and the need to find new ways to connect with stakeholders. Define, measure, and evaluate your organization’s outcome strategies all in one place.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of programs and services. Fundraising ROI. Is it relevant?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Strategic alignment – implementing standardized KPI dashboards across your organization helps ensure all of your departments are measuring progress and that their goals ladder up to your organization’s strategic goals. Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it.

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Donor Search

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Recently, I asked Prospect Researchers to complete a brief survey to help me understand how they measure the value of the work they perform. The survey consisted of four questions: What are the top three criteria used by management to evaluate your performance? Guest Post by Margaret King, Founder/President of InfoRich Group, Inc.

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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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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Understandably, the pandemic crisis is taking a toll on small businesses and hitting ROI hard. 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. The testing phase is a long process.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

In VolunteerHub, reports can be generated quickly and used to evaluate volunteer trends, activity, preferences, and ROI. Return on Investment (ROI). When used strategically, your volunteer management solution should provide a return on investment (ROI). Here are a few case studies of VolunteerHub delivering ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Council on Foundations ROI Panel. I participated on a panel called Face, Tweet, Link – Socia Media, Grantmaking & A True Social ROI. Slightly more mature practice for measuring business results vs social impact. Social media measurement is a discipline, not a task, and it needs to be part of the organization’s culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called " The New Focus Group: The Collective " where he urges companies using social media to make the last word in ROI insight, not investment. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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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. Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” First, do a self-audit to evaluate which nonprofit digital strategy is working for you and which are holding you back. How was the ROI? . How are you measuring commitment and ROI? .

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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. You may need to provide training on the purpose and use cases for your data warehouse or take strides to encourage more data-driven thinking in your organization’s workflows to see a worthwhile ROI on warehousing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. You cannot rely on being ???

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AccelEvents

JULY 7, 2021

Track event ROI. It can be challenging to know how successful your event indeed was if you don’t measure or track ROI. These events will speak to prospects who have evaluated your brand and are considering a relationship with it. Bottom of Funnel Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

He lays out what to measure for each of these areas. He has analysis and some thoughts on how to use social network analysis to evaluate your social media program - I haven't seen any other writing on this. There's another post on this blog pointing to a slide show by Beth Harte on social media measurement. Tags: ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve been mulling over the “Social Media ROI&# concept and how it doesn’t necessarily work for nonprofits, especially when it applied as a litmus test to see if there are financial outcomes — cost reductions or increased revenue. Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

What's the roi? 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. Are you simply wasting your time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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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. See this article for more tips on calculating your ROI.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. This is a very important data point in your overall valuation assessment to determine if you are getting a profitable ROI. Aside from membership, do you know the most valuable products your association offers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

KD Paine , the Queen of Social Media Measurement, said it. Measure Social Media." (She recently announced a new fee-based service called the Social Media Nonprofit Measurement and BenchmarkingReport ). Tags: ROI. KD Paine was also kind enough to send me my newest sticker - "Yes We Can! Here's the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin.

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