ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

So everyone understands the language, what it is what we’re intending to do, and it’s tied then to metrics, that it’s a shared metric system. And showing that it's moving the needle, the metric, forward. So, by focusing collectively around the chronically homeless we’ve made some wonderful strides.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. For nonprofits, this means focusing ads on your organization’s values, mission impact, and service results – the heart of your “product.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In addition to using impact metrics on your donation page (the CauseVox platform even has an Impact Metric feature for that particular purpose), consider creating a special blog series. For instance, you could feature a video of someone who once was homeless but now is a proud homeowner.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

While sizeable, complex impact investments like Kaiser Permanente’s $200 million to combat homelessness receive the most attention, most grantmaking programs are more modest, with hospitals investing about $500,000 to $2 million per year. A small number of coherent initiatives with a clear theory of change and metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. How do we move away from slacktivism? Just like the larger principle supporting movement building, we need to focus on action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Surrey, Canada: Metrics that Matter. Guatemala: EgarageTec - Charla con H.Rivas- Propiedad Intelectual para Startups. Thursday, November 14. Vancouver, Canada: Digital Storytelling Workshop.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2013

For nonprofits, this could mean higher rankings for local mobile searches on homeless shelters, animal adoption or volunteer opportunities. It’s soon going to become even more important for nonprofits to track these baseline metrics. To get ahead of the game, focus on improving your local SEO. Mobile Analytics. Mobile Email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Treat your ambassadors as insiders who are doing much more than growing vanity metrics – they are helping to steer a movement. . Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… Share that. I’m not saying you skip the tactical discussions, just don’t jump right there as step #1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

“Big listening is taking all the conversations that are going on online and trying to find pockets; in our case, ocean issues like MPAs (marine protected areas), overfishing, sustainable seafood, whales, bluefin tuna, ocean acidification, sharks, and shark finning, “ explains Matt Fitzgerald, Upwell’s Curator & Social Metrics Manager.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For some industries such as Animal Welfare though, the metric is almost three times higher. He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

After all, if you have a starting point, it’s much easier to track your metrics and see if new elements are working, making it easier to tailor your fundraiser directly to your community’s needs. John Center for Homeless Men recently added some engagement to their Raisin’ the Rent event with virtual house parties !

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Achieve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For instance, a homelessness outreach organization might crowdfund alongside another local food pantry to provide shelter and food during the cold winter months. Keep tabs on your engagement metrics as you track your crowdfunding progress. This directly connects donations to a specific cause, which encourages increased support.

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Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Common examples of these complimentary datasets include grant, compensation, financial, census, and subject area-specific data, such as homelessness, climate change , and education. This information can also help you set benchmark KPIs and metrics that are important for your organization to track over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

Consider this example: An animal shelter’s mission statement might be: To provide lifesaving care, shelter, and forever homes to homeless pets in our community. The core message of your case for support would detail how you enact your mission: Donations make a life-changing difference for homeless pets. Seek professional guidance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." " What do you think?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 during their house party. Each “house party” can have a theme, set activities, and music to differentiate. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

There is always a conundrum in measuring social change movements as well as networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation? What is needed to achieve it?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. http ://amysampleward.org/2011/01/20/diy-community-engagement-metrics /. Analog Strategies.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one. We need common goals and metrics across organizations, funders, and communities so we can track progress toward objectives like reducing poverty, improving education, and boosting community health.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

Just realize that a sponsor is definitely going to want to know all about the positive impact your organization has on your community, so annual reports, client stories, and metrics like a donor’s return on investment handy. A Plan : Possibly the most important thing your nonprofit can bring to the table is a detailed plan. Initiative.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

You may look at metrics such as: . For example, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide food and supplies for the homeless might create a registry with nonperishable foods, shower products, vitamins, and other useful products. Don’t let this information simply sit in your database. The number of first-time donors.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 5, 2021

Perhaps you’ve even noticed your engagement metrics decrease across your platforms due to supporters’ screen fatigue. . However, after months of relying on virtual interactions due to social-distancing restrictions, you may feel as though your marketing approach has gone a little stale.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can see here that Miriam’s House uses the donor based brandscript to center the supporter as the hero by saying “you can help end the cycle of homelessness.” Donor Based A Donor Based narrative centers your supporters as a key part of your mission to create impact in the world.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. So maybe you got 20 people off the streets who were living homeless in your community, and that was 30% of the homeless population that you’re aware of. But just saying, “We helped 20 people who are homeless,” does not provide context. Sample metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Kids learned about homelessness. The bottom line is member acquisition – so they know the one metric that matters. Moms were happy that kids were cleaning out their closets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Best Friends is a nonprofit organization that is working to bring about an end to pet homelessness and the shelter killing of nearly 4 million animals a year. All of the standard Facebook content engagement metrics such as likes, shares and comments. Number of fans whose contact information was acquired. Happy Endings for All.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Donor segmentation has been shown to help organizations increase their donor retention, which is a key metric for growing and sustainable fundraising. For example, animal shelters may create separate segments of dog owners and cat owners, while a nonprofit that serves homeless populations would find little use for that information. .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If those are the metrics they used to measure the worthiness of your charity for their money, then failing to meet those expectations after the first donation is bound to create a drop-off in donors. If your fundraising appeal mentioned collecting funds to help 4,000 homeless people, the donor expects to know how their contribution helped.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. Okay, so I’m just going to talk about some examples here. So one of my clients, they provide basic needs support. And also they are providing clothing and household goods to families in need.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Once your books and chart of accounts are set up properly, you’re ready to analyze key metrics to help drive outcomes. Using this metric, you can determine your most successful events, fundraising channels, and donor types. For example: Program Efficiency. How can you calculate this?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

On Twitter, you might connect the volunteers to the cause area: We cannot fix homelessness in a city with so little affordable housing, but we can provide a meal and referrals to medical, dental, and mental health services. On Instagram, you might share just the photo without any text. But many of us do not use this wonder of technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

When we met her, Honorata was homeless. Whatever all the metrics of success that people use to measure themselves; the day we lose our love, and our authenticity and sincerity towards the mission of the organization, we will lose much more than that. Her family had abandoned her. She had not seen her family for a long time.

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