NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI is creating a new digital resource, the Equitable Giving Lab, that will bring an equity lens to philanthropy by measuring funding for under-resourced groups.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices. Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. Partnering to advance equitable funding practices.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

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Charity Village

APRIL 27, 2022

As a nonprofit, it can be difficult to come up with funding for marketing initiatives. You need to measure, and you need to measure the […]. The post The importance of communications measurement: Are you using the right metrics? But how do you know if your efforts have actually been effective?

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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. There’s a good reason why an iconic nonprofit like the World Wildlife Fund sends stickers and a stuffed animal to donors who sign up to adopt a tiger, a giraffe, or another animal.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

By identifying potential partners, ensuring compliance, and measuring impact, nonprofits can maximize the effectiveness of their digital advertising efforts. Provides information on the ad buyer and funding entities behind political/issue ads. Shows ad performance data like impressions, spend, and demographic reach.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” KPIs should be clear, quantifiable, and adaptable.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Request a demo Explore pricing nicole.kowalcz… Sat, 04/13/2024 - 18:14 Deliver strategic funding with maximum efficiency With access to the largest network of vetted nonprofits and easier approvals for your team, you’ll deliver better, faster funding.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With different levels and types of funding, different board and staff structures and capacities, many nonprofits are less inclined to be transparent with their financials and program metrics. These numbers are most easily calculated when you have the proper fund accounting systems in place and a strong finance routine.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. 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. This Year Vs. Last Year. What’s Your Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. We are honored to have Laura Arrillaga-Andreeseen, Author of Giving 2.0 , write the foreword and it articulates from the donor perspective why nonprofits need to embrace measurement and learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Far too many times in history we see nonprofits struggling to keep up with the latest technologies due to limited resources and limited funds – but not with Web3! Benefits of Web3 for Nonprofits: Security for donor PII and funds. Transparency to keep donors updated on how funds are used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

“Is measuring data about proving it or improving it?” Advice for Nonprofits To Get Started with Measurement. “If you’re just starting with measurement, start with an easy win.” ” – @ kanter Build up your measurement muscles, y’all! Transparency and Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. How does your solution measure impact? to track and measure the impact of your programs. But in order for outcomes to show, I need the data.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 12, 2024

Grant funding is great, but often comes with requirements such as financial tracking of the award, measuring the program, reporting to the funder, and more — so look before you leap ! As many nonprofits are probably aware, multiple sources offer grant funds. often include funding alerts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. In other words, the amount of money donated to the Ivy Leagues suggests a ballpark figure for how much funding is available to higher education in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. What is needed to achieve it?

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2023

Resource constraints often lead to difficult financial decisions and funding reductions. Rather than making blanket budget cuts—or shifting funds to address a new and urgent need—make sure that your core programs are properly resourced. Communicate openly and often with stakeholders. Lean on your board of directors.

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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. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Acumen Fund has some free courses.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. But beyond the monetary investment are the types of funding available. A perhaps more ambitious metric, and certainly one more difficult to measure, will be the impact of local journalism grants on democracy and civic life itself in the United States.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the major barriers for the billions of people who lack safe water and sanitation is access to financing to fund the solutions they need to survive. This metric in mind, monthly donors know the measure of their impact when they check the box to make their donation monthly. Creating powerful solutions. Why monthly giving matters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They find great satisfaction and pride in funding growth and expansion. 1) Invite major donors to be an integral part of the work they’re funding. The specifics of what their money would be funding. Be as transparent as possible about the path your donor’s funds are taking from contribution to action to impact.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2023

In this blog, we will share his insights on how this initiative is growing support for groups that have historically lacked access to funding. Aligning funding with values The Donors of Color Network was established “to shift the center of gravity in philanthropy toward racial and economic justice.”

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues. Often, this leads to large audit adjustments, budget vs actual reporting difficulties, and other funding challenges. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This shift was marked by commitments of increased funding, greater flexibility in grantmaking practices, and a focus on social and economic systems transformation. My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Many funders, including individual donors, are averse to funding these indirect costs, preferring to support direct program expenses: food for hungry people, medical care for the sick, and childcare for working parents. A study cited by Nobel (2015) showed that individual donors are averse to funding organizations with high overhead rates.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How will you measure volunteer impact in 2024? Are you trying to get more volunteer funding? Here are some questions that can help you measure volunteer impact: Did you have enough qualified and engaged volunteers? Did you have enough funding for volunteer engagement? Have you set goals for 2024 using your volunteer data?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Stellar stewardship can deepen your relationship with your partners and help build trust in your area of expertise that in turn translates to positive funds for your mission. Some partnerships will include different types of value than others, but it should all be measured and reported.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Soon w ith Data Cloud and Einstein AI native to the new Einstein 1 Platform, nonprofits and associations will be able to create AI-powered apps and workflows maximiz ing the full cycle of funding, delivering, and measuring impact.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured?

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