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. Let me give you some examples of what I mean by this.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? We can track total downloads and we can tell if those downloads were from unique devices, but that’s where the measurement trail meets the edge of the cliff. Ways to measure a podcast's success!

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space. It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas.

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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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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

Data provides actionable insights and can give associations a navigable path to make better informed business decisions. 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. Most often, you’ll use at least one measurement.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data.

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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. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. How are you tracking success?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising? Incorporate compelling stories. Thank supporters often.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Metrics Tracking. >> Internal reporting: Weekly metrics for various platforms •Add metrics as you go. Do-It-Yourself.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

Each dashboard can be tailored to help measure what is important to your association, and relevant to your memberships. These highly visual dashboard elements will give staff a new perspective on membership data and trends.

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TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

Image courtesy of Black Celebrity Giving. Post level data reports on the analytic behind individual posts on a page, whereas page level data measures the impact as post has on the entire page. The post Better Understanding Nonprofits And Their Facebook Metrics appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Specifically, donor giving patterns can reveal insights about how to best reach donors across multiple platforms and secure their long-term support. Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. Again, remember to measure the results of these thought leadership efforts by measuring the engagement with the resources you produce.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’ll also be sharing the important metrics you need to keep an eye on to measure your performance. Making it a monthly occurrence gives your members a reason to hit your follow button. How to Measure Your Success Developing your social media presence as a membership engagement strategy can be measured via engagement metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Establishing regular meetings or processes for metrics review helps position us to learn from the data we’re collecting and be better positioned to identify opportunities to improve. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

. ”Don’t measure the world, if you don’t have the time and resources to do so.” ” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. Is WOM referral a right metric for small acts?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

The last week of December, particularly between December 28th and 31st, is optimal for a final campaign push because people are often in a giving mood during the holiday season and are more likely to respond positively to donation appeals. Define your metrics of success. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder.

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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. What I’m really enjoying is reading the blog posts that nonprofit tech colleagues have shared their thinking about the ladder of engagement and how to measure along it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

As a non-profiteer of many years, I have known donor giving programs to be described via a myriad of terms; sustainment, long-term, continued, recurring – all ways to describe the length of the relationship a donor establishes with a non-profit. World-changers – They want to make a sustainable, lasting difference with their giving.

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Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2024

This frictionless experience not only increases conversion rates but also encourages spontaneous giving, as individuals are more likely to act when the process is convenient and hassle-free. With a simple and intuitive interface, audiences can contribute to the cause without leaving the story or navigating through multiple pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 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. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . You identify key metrics by which you’ll determine if your programs are successful. That which gets measured gets done!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

posted by Terry McManus Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, TGen Foundation We all know the old adage “what gets measured gets done,” but knowing what to measure is easier said than done. Donors give to organizations they feel connected to. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI!

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause?

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Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social. Don''t just rely on tools and expect it to give you the full picture. Focus on Influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

What is it and what it means to use it as a measurement for improving Facebook engagement on your Facebook Page? This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared. Measuring Your Edgerank Score. AVES is the process of using bogus social media metrics to indicate value — metrics like influencer scores.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

We succeed when we provide just the right information to our end users, where they want it, when they need it, in a format that gives them the power to make good decisions. Data gives us context. This will give you the full picture of how your organization handles data.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Stepping into 2023, organizations and their donors are likely going to navigate a recession together­–impacting giving and the philanthropic landscape. With an informed development plan, there is no reason that 2023 can’t be your best fundraising year to date and a prime year for major giving. The good news?

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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

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? I’m basically a one person shop – so I do it all which gives me great empathy for those of you who are in that position.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. Reports like this are great for organizations to determine if their increases in different web metrics are comparable or better/worse than others'. Donors are giving in smaller amounts, but still giving.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2012

To create as much public good as possible, philanthropists need information about the performance of potential grantees: whether they have clear, measurable goals and the organizational capacity to realize them. We’re delighted that Benetech was selected to be one of the first 250 nonprofits spotlighted on the Giving Library.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Do they really give you the full picture of how your organization is connecting with your constituents and moving them up the engagement ladder? That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Don''t just rely on tools and expect them to give you the full picture.

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