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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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When directors understand their role in stewarding and growing resources, keeping track of that progress becomes a lot more interesting. Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Introduce Key Players Introduce key financial players.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” If you track current events, Sharon advised, you are aware of the erosion of public confidence across a spectrum of institutions.

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Nonprofit Social Media Mavens Are Curators of Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. One point that he keeps making over and over: Metrics must have meaning or else they’re just numbers. Value Metrics: These are a handful of metrics that support over-arching goals.

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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

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One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics. Track trends in your industry. The key takeaways from this discussion are: Start conversations at the staff, leadership, and Board levels. Educate your members to be discerning consumers of information: webinars, blog posts, podcasts.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

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Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Track your own data. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . After tracking your actions, track your donors’ resulting behavior.

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How To Make Sense of Your Social Media Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” And I love facilitating, designing, and delivering workshops on this topic! Measurement'