sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2022

What do you know about setting goals for yourself and your team and managing those goals? In it, you’ll hear Damaris Herron-Watkins discuss best practices for creating and managing your team’s goals. Listen in to hear what she has to say about the purpose of goal management, the different types of goals, and making goals SMART.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It’s a time when individuals, businesses, and communities unite to support nonprofits through financial contributions. You have the power to host your own, tailor-made to suit your organization’s mission and goals. How Does a Giving Day Work? What is a Giving Day? Who Hosts Giving Days?

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some people love setting goals. The thing I love about it is that I know I’m getting closer to my goals even when I don’t achieve them. Today I want to talk about the goals you have for your nonprofit, specifically your goals around acquisition. And isn’t that the, dare I say it, goal? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Effective donor retention strategies require you to determine your baseline, define success, and measure your progress toward your goals through reporting. So at their most basic, how do your donor retention strategies work? Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Cost: Free.

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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.

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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. Check out how VolunteerHub works. Measure Community Reach.

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ROI Measure Volunteer Program 98

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A study conducted by McKinley Advisors found that successful associations take time to plan strategically. Perhaps you’re currently experiencing success and are looking for methods to maintain your organizational growth and exceed your future goals. Member-centric How would you measure your association’s commitment to your members?

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

What I mean by that is that some fundraising strategies are more expensive and time consulting than others. If you don’t have a high return on your investment, you’re likely wasting your valuable time and resources. Examine your event goals. . The first step is to critically examine your event goals.

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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. Start by narrowing down what you’re using storytelling for.

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ROI Storytelling Measure Story 67

EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

It’s the middle of the year, and although many of you still haven’t even taken summer vacation, the time has arrived to begin planning for your 2024 state legislative campaigns. This is the time to answer questions like: What states will we be targeting?

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

What happens if you’re heading into 2024 with big goals and ambitions and a database filled with duplicates? Here are 6 tips on how to transform your data into a tool you can use to meet and exceed your association’s goals, into next year and beyond! You may have parent-child relationships that don’t work.

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Data Tips Associations Government 169

EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

To illustrate, by the time 2023 Pride began on June 1, there were already over 500 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation proposed or passed in state legislatures across the country. Issue awareness campaigns and messages can be directed at existing or potential supporters, with the goal of educating them about a specific issue.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Every score has a treasure trove of insights you can work with to improve your members’ experience. Finally, you’ll want to consider the time decay of your offered activities. Once you’ve decided on how you’ll base your score, it’s time to put it into action. That depends on your association’s members!

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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

AUGUST 6, 2018

If Skip the resolutions and let’s talk about goal setting for your nonprofit. July 1 represents a new fiscal year for many nonprofits, a time to review programs and previous goals to be sure they’re aligned with the mission and to establish new benchmarks. From WHY comes strategic planning and goal setting.

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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. You’re constantly bettering the lives of those you interact with as you work to achieve your mission, which leaves a lasting, positive effect on their lives. Measuring impact.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If so, now is the time to target your marketing efforts in that direction. You don’t want to waste time and money in social media marketing (SMM) if your highest conversions are coming from organic sources. Now is the time… ask us how. To Determine Your Goals for the Coming Year. Need help with that? Contact us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Despite this, when it is times to do measurement, many feel that it is a daunting task. How can we improve our measurement practice?

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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. Work intervened.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. Step 1: Set objectives and goals Start by outlining your campaign’s strategic purpose and objectives. Step 5: Launch, measure, and optimize It is time to launch your communications campaign.

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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. Ultimately, the goal of a membership engagement strategy is to improve member retention. That’s a little over two workdays a week—plenty of time to interact with your organization. What is a Membership Engagement Strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Wellbeing At Work is an essential read for leaders who want to create a thriving and resilient workplace culture. Why wellbeing initiatives work substantially better when people have great managers who engage them in their work first and establish trust. Organizations demand a person’s full energy at work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes. Things like smart computers that learn, better ways for different programs to work together, and ways to customize how things are done.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals. Work with the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that your goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound). Goals may be dollar-based—e.g., Step 3: Align those goals to proven strategies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, read it only once you’ve committed yourself to creating a welcoming and productive work environment for all. Kriska explains that to achieve real change and lasting change you need to spend the time, make the effort and commitment, and be fully accountable. Tie diversity, equity, and inclusion goals to business goals.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! How urgently?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, read it only once you’ve committed yourself to creating a welcoming and productive work environment for all. Kriska explains that to achieve real change and lasting change you need to spend the time, make the effort and commitment, and be fully accountable. Tie diversity, equity, and inclusion goals to business goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Appreciable – smaller goals contribute to a bigger objective.

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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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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. Receiving that small gift—along with annual updates on how “their” animal is doing—is measurable, touchable, huggable proof that an annual subscription is a big deal. 4) Give outcomes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I'm a big fan of Marcus Buckingham 's work, teachings and books, so I was eager to read his book, co-authored by Ashley Goodall. Titled, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World , the book debunks what we've come to believe as basic truths in the workplace. Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The most common mistake we see is trying to acquire a donor on the “first date” interaction only, instead of viewing donor acquisition like a longer relationship that must be nurtured over time. Listen to this podcast with their digital strategy team on how they make it work for them. 22 Online Donor Acquisition Tactics.

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Ideas Donor Work Online 98

Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

As you define your goal(s), also think about how to measure it. Here are a few examples: Increase awareness and expand your audience: success is measured by an increase in followers, but you could also track things like shares, reposts, and retweets. Set a time period for the test. In a year, what will success look like?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, read it only once you’ve committed yourself to creating a welcoming and productive work environment for all. Kriska explains that the achieve real change and lasting change you need to spend the time, make the effort and commitment, and be fully accountable. Tie diversity, equity, and inclusion goals to business goals.

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Environment Create Work Culture 52

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How will you measure volunteer impact in 2024? As we close out 2023, you probably have some view into the impact your volunteers made, including how much time they worked and other basic information to share with others in your organization. Have you set goals for 2024 using your volunteer data? How much? an hour , a 6.2%

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post. Working for what?

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