Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. The big takeaway: Nonprofits overwhelmingly agree that video is crucial to their communications, but many feel they do not know how to use it effectively or measure its impact – yet. 2. Orgs want to make more video, but aren’t allocating the funds to do so.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nonprofits track the amount of funding allocated to different programs, projects, and organizational operations to show stakeholders that they’re using all revenue to further the mission. This section details your nonprofit’s funding sources and how much revenue you bring in from each source.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. The Center staff includes just five staff members (four full-time) plus one very part-time social media manager at five hours a week.

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CauseVox

JULY 11, 2022

The hard part is the initial ask but once sponsors have developed a relationship with your org, it’s a lot easier to ask if they’d be interested in sponsoring your event again. It can help you get ahead of the game and have measurable progress so that when your supporters do start registering, it won’t feel like starting from zero.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The event will end with an “ Idea Accelerator ” where participants will have an opportunity to develop and pitch an actionable idea for feedback and funding. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Through their Marketing Maturity Assessment, The Mighty GPS , Mighty Citizen has named a series of categories that measure your stage in the journey. The trends that appeared reflect that orgs struggle the most with Research and Analytics. These include: Research and analytics. Branding and strategy. UX design and content. Technology.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

They’re also great if your org wants to reach new audiences and build deeper connections with existing supporters. This means that you have potential to double the amount of funds raised. This year, they had about $120K in sponsorships alone which got them ahead of the game with measurable progress.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? And also think about how you can fund those new programs because you may need some seed money before you can start. But you can’t self-fund your nonprofit. The post What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I led the panel, “Measuring What Matters: How Funders and Nonprofits are Leveraging Data” and was joined by Adrian Bordone, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at GuideStar, and Peter York CEO and Chief Innovator at Algorythm. Are we willing to share more information about our orgs? Let’s understand what is working and repeat it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

One thing I think C3 (my org) does well is that we take a lot of short, successful hops. It’s not about raising more funds, it’s about raising enough funds. Enough funds to win the small, measured victory and build towards the larger ones. But we’re getting there with a series of small steps.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? This is my guest post on Care2′s Frogloop blog. Start with Metrics. Story – 350.org’s

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

org before? What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Helping the women receiving the funds. org and 1Sky to lead by merging. We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on. Have people heard of 350.org

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2020, they set a goal of raising $40,000 for their combined #GivingTuesday/year-end fundraiser to raise funds for their virtual summer camp. Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Are you funding programs or operations or both?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Influential Fundraiser : A wealth of creative and effective approaches for funding solicitations. Forces of Good: 6 Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits : Drawn from a survey of CEOs and study of a dozen high-impact nonprofits, tips to make your org more effective. Tips for being heard and understood.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2011

More than 50% of the $20M+ orgs are only considered Juniors (in the participant categories), just beginning their journey with integrated marketing. Percentages of funds raised online are all over the board in terms of org size. Percentages of funds raised online are all over the board in terms of org size.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SERVE $3,032,759 MORE CLIENTS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Step 1: Removing Resistance. TechBridge.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s in our org charts. People will manage, monitor, and measure their philanthropic activity primarily on a mobile device. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) will no longer be just for wealthy donors. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. Choose wisely.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Recruiting participants can be challenging and takes a certain measure of courage (as you’ll read below). Got a hard case at your org who wants “real data”? Do you have some funds? Today, we’ll unpack how and where to find the right people for testing your website and donation form.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Blue” orgs get a small fraction of environment funding. We measure the success of the campaigns based on the number of social mentions they generate, and how much they elevate the baseline of attention for each issue. It’s our mission to make the ocean more famous online. Competition is real in the marine conservation space.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

As with any initiative, goals and objectives should be clear, measurable, and aligned with the organization’s strategy and mission. I’m an evangelist for technology, and there are likely dozens of ways to leverage technology to market, promote, register attendees, and raise funds for an event. Clear Goals and Objectives.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So the first thing that I want to know, this is a chat question, Steven, you can tell me how people respond, what are your biggest funding needs now versus pre-COVID?

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

In addition to the features included in the “Standard” tier, “Pro” also comes with the following features: “No-code” integrations through Zapier Analytics Custom-branded donation receipts Stock and crypto donations Custom: For larger orgs looking for a more complex suite of features, Donorbox has a “Custom” tier with individualized pricing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

many orgs need to either rely on metrics which are indirect measures of long term impact—like the number of repeat clients, client satisfaction, or percent of client issues resolved—or invest in expensive, long-term longitudinal research. Nonprofits need to “ loose their gut and get serious about measurement.”

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Partnerships, securing funding, and spending more time placing MENA youth into fulfilling, sustainable employment are all made possible by the organization’s Salesforce solutions. A measured approach helped positively impact user adoption of Salesforce through an iterative process encouraging continual refinement of the solution. “It

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Tweet about your donation from your org’s page with the #GivingTuesday hash tag and start a pay-it-forward campaign. The other item to highlight among our Giving Tuesday ideas: The only way to #fail on #GivingTuesday is to not measure your results. The only way to #fail on #GivingTuesday is to not measure your results.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

These generate more work without corresponding increases in funding for staff and benefits. This creates a measure which organization leaders can share widely and which would help staff see how their work connects with the public. Staff could work anywhere in the org for a few hours a week.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

once people realize that they can give to any nonprofit on social media sites like Change.org without providing a snail mail address (I always give my email address), the young folks will defect in mass from giving via the orgs Web site. Giving on social media sites. The same has happened with radio, broadcast TV, and now even cable.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I like to give you those tools to let you work more efficiently because I have this belief that raising funds for causes you care about shouldn’t mean working 60 hours per week forever. Half of them don’t already have those funds allocated and may be open to supporting your organization as well. It’s my problem.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. There were a lot of data points they could measure, but by selecting and focusing on six key levers and limiting the sources of data (for now), they have a usable program to which they can continue to add functionality and improvements.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofits can leverage this platform to connect with donors, launch compelling fundraising campaigns, and measure their impact, ultimately accelerating their mission-driven initiatives. Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud is known for its scalability and its integration with other Salesforce products.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively. By most measures, we did. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2018

The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report provides insight on the online and mobile communication tools NGOs around the world use to promote general awareness, communicate with core audiences and raise funds from donors, as well as an analysis of those online tools and comparisons of regional usage. section of the report.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

If we try and experiment, and it doesn’t work, then we’re not going to get funding, or our donors won’t like us anymore, and they’ll go away. And you have limited funding, right? Yes, definition of done is another way to say measurables. Plus the definition of done is a specific type of measurable. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Converting Fresh Leads Into Donors&# and featured Heidi Hess of Children’s Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation , with Holly Ross of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) moderating. Care2’s latest monthly webinar on October 1st was called “While They’re Hot!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey: When I worked in international development, we said, okay, this org, we’re spending 8% on administration, this organization spends only 4%. About if we’re raising money for endowment funding, how do we create a sense of urgency around that? . So nine, “How will you measure results?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) The most interesting part of webinars is the q/a and Tara got an interesting question about how you measure Whuffie and she wrote her reflection here. and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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