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. It was a time-consuming process that was prone to mistakes, making it tough to stay organized and keep track of everything.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Going Beyond Basic Metrics Learning analytics goes beyond basic metrics to offer you a deeper understanding of course performance and learner engagement. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll review the basics of AI fundraising tools and a few strategies for using these solutions to improve donor relationships. How AI Fundraising Tools Work There are many types of AI fundraising tools that suit a wide range of needs.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

According to tracking for 20,000 top podcasts, the listeners have tripled in monthly podcast listeners over the past 5 years to 75 million (RawVoice). If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. How can these tools help you track meaningful data?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Step 3: Identify the tools. Metrics Tracking. >>

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Make sure the dashboard you choose can be customized to track the specific data points you want to track. Looker is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to create, explore, and visualize data.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

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. When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. Keeping track of your engagement rate allows you to determine whether you’re effectively communicating and connecting with social media supporters over time.

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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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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions. What metrics might be used to support creating new programs? Discuss which engagement metrics to include in executive/board reports. To learn more about how we can help you with tracking and measuring your member engagement, get in touch with us today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. “Amazing large numbers of members, staging marches, and winning campaigns – all these remain important measures of a successfully growing movement.

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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. How to Measure Your Success Developing your social media presence as a membership engagement strategy can be measured via engagement metrics. What is a Membership Engagement Strategy?

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Pick your favorite tool and create tasks with due dates, details, and assignments for your team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Does it have pre-built dashboards with nonprofit metrics that are important for each persona at your organization and important for board members. 3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This year, the need to check in is even more critical, as 2023 will usher in a whole new paradigm for a core part of digital strategy: web metrics. UA has been a reliable benchmarking tool for more than a decade, and many organizations have comfortably adopted strategies and reports that deliver data to inform their broader digital strategy.

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Care2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Are you measuring the right social media metrics or do you have your head in the sand? Or, you may have experienced shinny-new-social-media-object-of-the-week syndrome – using new social media tools with no real purpose, reason or objective. And to set objectives that you can measure when your done. Good question.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Start with a simple self-assessment to understand where you and your organization fall along the impact maturity scale: what tools and processes do you already have in place? These metrics should measure what really matters rather than simply what is possible or easy to track. What works and what doesn’t? Data access. .

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Track your own data. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tools – What tools do you have? What tools do you require? Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. What limits you? Is it at your fingertips?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly. Stay aligned on what success means for your campaign by tracking and sharing engagement metrics with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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CauseVox

APRIL 6, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising can be a powerful tool for small nonprofits to raise funds and increase awareness about their cause. However, with the right strategies and tools, small nonprofits can achieve exponential results. How to quickly set up a campaign on CauseVox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Digital marketing is often a cost-effective option for organizations because there are many free online tools to help you create content and track your campaigns. With how many people use social media, it’s a great marketing tool to maximize the amount of people your nonprofit can reach.

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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. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. The long answer: open rate has always been just one of many metrics we track, and the reliance on image downloads has made this number a little squishy. The new feature helps users prevent senders from knowing when they open an email.”

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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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Media Cause

JULY 11, 2023

While there’s a common concern that automated email marketing may seem impersonal, it is, in fact, an invaluable tool for nonprofits to build and strengthen relationships with supporters when executed thoughtfully. Data-Driven Decisions Email automation tools often come with analytics. Why Automated Email Marketing?

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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. These must be tracked and evaluated. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI! Fundraising outcomes (i.e.

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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. One important note: make sure to track your own time during the experiment.

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Social Media Data Strategy Media 98

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. How to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy There are several ways to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Be open to making changes to your branding as needed.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Surveys can be a great tool for this. You can use it to track donor behaviors based on like-minded groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” ”).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A product, whether in the for-profit, nonprofit, or government sector, is a powerful tool that delivers a valuable service to a specific audience. Users have the ability to add profiles for newborns and keep track of key actions and data in relation to their newborn, such as weight, feeding, and skin-to-skin contact.

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