Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

My colleagues, all experts, practitioners, and instigators share a passion for inspiring others to build great organizations for greater societal impact and increasing the expectation and adoption of high performance in the field. We want to support learning. It is valuable to identify cases where nonprofits use common metrics.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

If your site is out of date, you’re missing out on valuable support from your visitors. Excited, the supporter clicks through to read more about this engaging event, only to find that it already occurred last month. Supporters should be able to do anything from a mobile device that they can on their desktop.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Corporate giving allows nonprofits to maximize community support by leveraging nonprofit-oriented programs that companies have already established. Corporate giving programs fall under the wider umbrella of corporate philanthropy, which refers to any support companies provide to nonprofits. More volunteer sign-ups.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Deepens relationships and draws supporters closer to your mission. Community/Fun Events Community/Fun Events are widely promoted events that encourage people to do something active or fun while supporting your cause. Typically, a Heartstrings Event has one main goal – to ask people for support. Attracts corporate sponsors.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. Programmatic statistics related to mission impact. As with many multiple-choice tests, there is only one answer here that makes sense: programmatic statistics related to mission impact. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

Unrestricted revenue typically comes from earned revenue such as fee-for-service, ticket sales, or membership income; it can also come from general operating support or temporarily restricted revenue in which the restrictions have been satisfied. In a very simple sense, how much cash does the organization have on hand to support operations?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Communicate the concrete donation impact of your callers’ fundraising goals. By automating these time-consuming tactical steps, you can spend your time managing callers, increasing donations, and engaging in deeper relationships with supporters. Give your callers the information they need to have the biggest impact.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Metrics, metrics, metrics. Video views?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

A report released by The Center for Effective Philanthropy suggested that over 70 percent of surveyed nonprofits said that their funders do not tend to provide any support for assessment efforts. What resulted was a sector-wide effort to switch the focus from financial metrics to outcome evaluation. and Herring, A.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact. For more resources on goals & objectives: The Pollyanna Principles.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Creating a digital plan does that by aligning strategies to support your marketing goals. Setting expectations that align with your capabilities and resources are critical to gaining continued support from leadership. Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For a deeper dive into visual storytelling, be sure to download this free comprehensive guide on how to develop high-impact videos. To lighten your load, rally your support base to set up personal and team fundraising pages as part of a peer-to-peer fundraiser. 5) Fundraising Metrics. Impact Created. 3) Content Marketing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Online fundraising allows nonprofits to raise funds from their supporters via the internet, usually using an online donation page. What is online fundraising?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Online fundraising is the process of raising funds from supporters via the internet, usually using an online donation page. Give from anywhere.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Communicating accountability, responsibility, and impact with the general public should be a priority for any organization. Charity rating organizations use varying metrics for evaluating efficacy and impact, but most organizations use Accountability, Transparency, Program Percentage, and Fundraising efficiency as the basis for their ratings.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact or the Microsoft Ad Grant is a program available to eligible nonprofits to help transform their digital presence. Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind. Enhanced Supporter Communication.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s a day that nonprofits frequently use to encourage additional giving from their supporters. . Social Media Support. Were our year-end fundraising results impacted by Giving Tuesday? Draft the copy for emails promoting the campaign to each segment of supporters. . Focus on Increasing Donor Retention. Matching Gifts.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your content should go beyond the basics to provide web visitors with a meaningful understanding of your nonprofit’s work and its impact. Your content has the power to create an emotional connection with audience members, motivating them to support your cause. Assign relevant metrics to each goal. Make your content accessible.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the heartbeat of your cause, these supporters provide the means to make impact a reality. Rarely are they actively searching for nonprofits to support. Therefore, the key is to tailor your lead magnet to align with what donors are looking for, making it a vital tool in your quest to connect with supporters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. But thats okay.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 20, 2021

Working to support and educate the communities that impact children’s development, including parents, healthcare professionals, and policymakers, this vital organization seeks to lay the foundation for all infants and toddlers in pursuit of a bright future. Bettering Communication with Pardot. Written by Blake Becker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

If you want to have a successful blog that supports your organization’s goals and adds value, improvement should be continuous. You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. Data to help tell the story of the mission—through outcomes and impact. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results.

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