Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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. After your web guru gives the green light, open up Ads Manager and create a new campaign. Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) measures ROI.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2010

The environmental nonprofit, Greenpeace International , made a big splash in the green IT world this week by launching a new policy campaign to measure the energy efficiency of the data centers that power cloud computing differently than in the past. Their new campaign coincides with the launch of the new cloud device, the Apple iPad.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Time to scale This year, we will expand the campaign and hold ourselves accountable for measuring Demographics via Candid’s success from a nonprofit perspective. And more than 66,000 nonprofits are contributing their demographic data via the Candid profile, which is double the amount since 2021. Essentially, are they feeling less of a burden?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2022

Swanky hotels with over-the-top accommodations and evening dinners and entertainment that made everyone back at the office green with jealousy. . Make a point to use different green vendors in your event planning and execution. Great event and conference perks – but at what cost?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2009

These measures will not only make your systems more efficient; they'll also save money and reduce your impact on the environment. Tags: Green Office GreenTech GreenTips Operating Systems Windows 7. In these tough economic times, there are a few relatively easy steps you can take to reduce waste in your IT systems.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Featured in this issue: " Measuring Your Social Media Success ," from Idealware's Andrea Berry, which provides guidance for measuring what matters when it comes to social media for your nonprofit. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits are measuring their social media efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement. While technical topics such data and measurement processes emerged, so did a lot culture change issues. Data Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data. … Read More Measurement' Have a clear, linear chain of cause effect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. What’s working? What’s not working?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success. They also measure retention to see how many return each year and what factors could play into increases or decreases. . “ Set specific goals for your event that can easily be measured and attained within the scope of your event.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the luxury chocolate brand, Green & Black’s, Jo Fairley is an inspirational businesswoman who paved the way for others to follow her sustainable business model.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Beyond the measurable performance impacts determined by testing, organizations must determine their own risk to employ ethical storytelling as a principle (because you believe it’s the right thing to do, regardless of impact) compared with using traditional response drivers that may maximize the revenue for your mission.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. green cafe business Oakland

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

It is important to start by making an audit and consistently measuring your carbon footprint, so that you can ensure you’re improving and can reduce it as much as possible. Use Green Energy. Being eco-friendly is a priority here at Twenti, that’s why all of our hosting is run on 100% green energy. Green Online Marketing .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Several Community Science Workshops also get Measure S grants - gang prevention grants - through their cities. I knew I could learn a lot from it. It''s powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

This could be as simple as “If we post more links on Facebook with the embedded link tool, we will increase our reach” or any of the items that Mari Smith suggests you measure on Facebook. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. You could pick any channel, social or otherwise to set up an a/b test hypothesis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

One of the ways I measure if Have Fun, Do Good is fulfilling its mission is with something called PostRank. It measures reader "engagement" based on things like the number of comments a post receives, and the times it was tweeted, rather than just page views. The photo of me with the cute little dog is by Green LA Girl.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

If you have a CRM with an analytical dashboard, like Little Green Light or Bloomerang , you are presented with this number daily. But measuring your fundraising effectiveness can help you do less, by showing you which tasks to focus on. But do you really think about it? Or do you push it out of your mind? The Bottom Line .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

First, it is my sincere hope that the ideas in the book, once in practice will make nonprofits more effective in networking by knowing how to measure their results. I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Social capital is tangible and malleable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. But with increased testing and heightened security, and many other demands on schools and teachers today, are gardens just a green frill, or are they a good use of a school’s time and money? Learn more about our Social Impact Measurement Certificate.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 22, 2009

Links to some interesting reading this Earth Day: Green IT. A couple months ago I posted about "Green IT" and the growing awareness that information technology demands fuel and creates emissions like all other energy consuming activities. Green Education. Green Markets? Tags: nptech green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

I’m going to change the line color for advocates to green, my action color, and change the others to a shade of gray. Data Measurement' So in this case, I’m suggesting we pay attention to the advocates, who used to be followers, and some of whom will become donors. Your action color will likely be something from your brand.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. Other solutions worth consideration for smaller nonprofits might be Neon and Little Green Light.

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Classy

JUNE 17, 2021

Some include Project Green (sustainability and environmental), Am-Asian (Asian-American), Pride (LGBTQ+), and Classy as a Mother (mothers). Led by Project Green, Classy employees are encouraged to measure their individual carbon footprint and contribute to the company-wide initiative or reducing our corporate footprint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The last thing we do is measure our market share in the social media space. I’d love for people to check out our last social media campaign called Green Gift Monday. We’re actually going through a new web analytics implementation right now – so starting in the spring our data is going to be a lot easier to interpret and report out.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. Will your Board support this program? Will donors give money to sustain the program? How will you find participants?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Both my client and I were curious about what exactly was working (and what was not), so they gave me the green light to create these charts (everyone should be so lucky!). Don’t feel as if you have to measure everything; measure what’s most important to achieving the outcomes you desire. What else did you measure and why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. As you can imagine, the conference blahs start to hit after a day of taking in some much fabulous information. So, I started with an energizer by making everyone do the chicken dance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information. How will you measure success? Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The Waste Concern approach creates good jobs for waste pickers, keeps the city clean, reduces green house gases, and prevents corruption (the auditing process for carbon credits is rigorous and doesn’t leave much room for funny business). What a great kick-off for a day!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. The green represents people talking about. Look for the Patterns.

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