The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the best storytelling tips I can give you is to set yourself up for measurement success from the very beginning. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success. Here’s a few examples: Telling a story in.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here are 4 ways to measure volunteer program ROI and ensure you are getting the highest amount of value. As your nonprofit grows, so does the need to optimize your volunteer program and effectively measure ROI. Measure Volunteer Value. Measure Community Reach. You can easily measure by comparing inputs and outputs.

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Big data and robust analytic measuring tools have enabled this revolution to go from a pipe dream to reality in only a few short years. Everyone wants to compare the success of their organization to a measurable analytic. Here are the 3 steps your nonprofit needs to get started measuring and reporting on meaningful data today.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here’s an example. This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. Take, for example, “we do.” 10 Awesome Nonprofit Mission Statement Examples 1. CFRI’s mission statement is a great example of concisely answering the question: “Why do you exist?”

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Forum One

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It can be difficult to measure the impact of your work, particularly when you are unclear about what impact means to your organization. To understand how outputs are different from impacts—and why you should measure impact in addition to outcomes—it is helpful to understand what goes into the process of achieving impact. Activities?

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s an example of changing but not changing. For example, you pay a membership fee to join an association and receive a long list of available products, like newsletters or certifications. Here’s an example of what I mean. You’re stuck using revenue growth as the primary measure of success when you could focus on impact.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2023

Accurately measuring the performance of marketing efforts is crucial for nonprofits to evaluate and optimise their strategies to make the most of precious resources. For example, a page view event has parameters that give us the name of the event (page_view), detail on the URL (page_location) and page title (page_title), amongst other things.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

For example, did you know that throwing events is one of the most expensive fundraising strategies? And if you don’t measure your ROI, you’ll never know if you’re actually making money or if you’d be better off focusing on more lucrative and less time-consuming strategies. . Did you have a clear, measurable goal for throwing it?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Take Coca-Cola for example. American Eagle Outfitters (which has upped its maximum match amount), The Hartford (which has doubled its existing match ratio), Chicago Community Trust (which has increased its donation limit and its match rate) are all great examples of this trend in workplace giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Let me give you an example. Measure the success of your upgrade asks – do donors who come from your species extinction petition go on to be regular donors at a higher rate? Medium (utm_medium).

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. For example, your organization may have a 2021 goal of “increasing membership.” Most often, you’ll use at least one measurement. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

For example, if you set up a conversion action for when someone donates to your nonprofit, you will be able to see the campaign, ad group, keyword, search term, and ad copy that led to that conversion! For example, if you spent $50 on a keyword and one person donates to your nonprofit, the cost per conversion is $50. 4) Cost / Conv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Example: Using more advanced learning analytics, one association was able uncover that the courses they offered with industry certifications had significantly higher completion rates than those without. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

For example, a clothing store puts out a new line of clothing; they want to know how that line is performing. Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. An example of a KPI could be the number of surveys completed after an event. If it does well, it may produce more items like it.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. When we keep in mind the true meaning of the impact, in all its forms, it helps us discover what’s important when measuring it. Measuring impact. goals, measure them!

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

One example of thought leadership is this blog! Again, remember to measure the results of these thought leadership efforts by measuring the engagement with the resources you produce. But in order to do that, you have to think about what you’ll do to engage them and how you’ll measure it ahead of time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. A donor will be pleased to learn that, for example, their $100 donation helped kickstart a conservation project or deliver a week worth of food to a family in need. 4) Give outcomes.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. Here are some more examples ). Photo by Notemily. Wondering what a blog carnival is?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Through her work with clients like the Wildlife Conservation Society and her love of (math) problem solving, Amy has picked up a lot of wisdom + I wanted to better understand her process for approaching a social media campaign and measuring its efficacy. Measuring beyond "likes". Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

In order to tie outcomes to mission, leaders must embrace and invest in outcome measurement. One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions. Measuring outcomes is difficult, measuring activities is easy. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. How do you measure engagement? That’s the secret! How To Build A Ladder of Engagement by MixTape. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. Does your organization have a ladder of engagement?

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. There are many marketing technology tools that can help you measure success. Let’s use email as an example. Here are examples of success metrics broken down by three common channels: List Preparation. How are you tracking success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. If your nonprofit wants to get started or set up a presence it is “meh,” the first step is to check out what other nonprofits in your space are doing on Instagram and other inspiring examples. Free Report: Simply Measured.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. As BoardSource points out, even measuring your ROI is more than just money in vs. money out. This Year Vs. Last Year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference. When I saw this YouTube video to promote a conference on measurement and outcomes, I couldn’t resist sharing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. “Look across rows versus columns, for example.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

If you mostly work with baby boomers, for example, then you may want to prioritize establishing a Facebook page. For example, maybe you’re utilizing the text-to-give feature. First ask yourself, what demographics do these stakeholders fall into? 3) It’s a great relationship builder.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Learn more Measure program outcomes in real time Built-in reporting Bonterra’s native reporting tool empowers grants administrators to measure program outcomes, not just outputs. Measure impact according to your company’s specific needs with drill down and self-service dashboard builder capabilities.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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