Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. Measuring impact Some ad libraries provide performance data, such as impressions or engagement metrics.

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Library Influence Demographics Nonprofit 104

sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space. When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics. We look forward to this report every year.

Benchmark 79

Benchmark Blackbaud Report Online 79

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In this three-part toolkit, we include a guide and a master list of metrics you should really care about to determine the success of your organization, as well as a dashboard to track your data and measure your trends. Are your email campaigns being effective? Download the FREE Guide.

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Free Create Metrics Fundraising 130

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. Uncover the step-by-step process of defining goals, selecting prompts, implementing initiatives, and measuring impact in this comprehensive guide.

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Digital Strategy Guide Create 305

Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. There are many marketing technology tools that can help you measure success. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. How are you tracking success? Attribution.

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Analytics Marketing Taxonomy Module 169

Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

For larger associations, you may want to consider divvying up roles accordingly: Analytics – This person reports on any trends and delivers insights based on their review of the data. Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions. What metrics might be used to support creating new programs?

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Analytics Associations Model Metrics 169

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

DIY Community Engagement Metrics. So often I find that we are too quick to say that because a website doesn’t have our domain, a tool is downloaded to our computer, or a platform doesn’t have our developers working on it that we can’t be responsible for measuring and analyzing the way we use it. Metrics Tracking. >>

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Metrics Community Map Template 219

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For associations offering courses and certifications, having basic metrics on things like participation counts and revenue are critical – but just the start. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. This is real knowledge!

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Learning Management Associations Data Learning 130

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Whether you are measuring the number of organizations you reach by impact area or tracking the percentage of minority-led nonprofits you support, use your grants management system to keep your organization accountable to your goals.

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Practice Trend Grant Gartner 73

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, while data analytics is a higher priority for organizations, just one-third of association professionals report their data is excellent or very good. Gauge how your association measures up by surveying your staff to identify key trends in your organization.

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Data Organization Associations Analytics 140

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2021

Just like last year, common solutions to this year’s problems emerge in the form of fundraising trends. We’ve been paying attention to these developing trends, and have compiled them here for you. Corporate social responsibility is a valuable area to explore in your spring fundraising measures. Appealing to younger donors.

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Trend Campaign Fundraising Mobile 98

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

But according to the Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study , only 39% of association professionals have one! How can your organization reverse this concerning trend? A set of rules, metrics, or policies established by an organization to bring clarity and ease of use to data practices is a data governance policy.

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Policy Government Adopt Associations 117

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation.

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Local Pledge News Support 99

Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Focus on Target Audiences. Focus on Influence.

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Metrics Brain Social Media Social Network 75

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 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. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 244

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Can the development office customize workflows and notifications when a donor is lapsing to help you determine the root cause and how to turn the trend around? Is the technology popular in the market?

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Metrics Nonprofit Profile Platform 263

Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. You don’t need to do trends A persistent social media myth is that you need to participate in trends if you do video. You can use free tools like MusicallyDown or SnapInsta.

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YouTube Tips Script Audio 122

Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your nonprofit marketing plan provides focus, structure, and measurable objectives to help you see what’s working and what needs to be changed. Creating marketing goals When creating your marketing goals, they should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound).

Marketing 52

Marketing Guide Nonprofit Channel 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Colleagues Zan McColloch-Lussier and Peter Drury managing the back channel, the Twitter was rich with almost 1,000 tweets and the hashtag #kantersea trended locally. I pulled together a curated collection of the best tweets on storify , but here are a few tweets that resonated. “Is measuring data about proving it or improving it?”

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Seattle Measure Data Hosting 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Over the past 5 years since I’ve been analyzing metrics and my content , I have a good list of the topics that do well.

Content 101

Content Measure Organization Strategy 101

Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. Reports like this are great for organizations to determine if their increases in different web metrics are comparable or better/worse than others'. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends.

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Metrics Measure Web Convio 52

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 ). Step 5: Launch, measure, and optimize It is time to launch your communications campaign.

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Communication Campaign Channel Measure 98

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . The last thing you want to do is waste their time and bog their donor reports down with unnecessary metrics. .

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Report Data Donor Metrics 124

Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Research from Community Brands consistently shows that members place high value on networking and staying up to date on industry news, trends, and regulations. Goals and success metrics. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement.

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Community Online Strategy Guidelines 134

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That’s why we put together a list of the five essential metrics you need to know, as a fundraiser, to achieve higher retention rates. Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. Donor Level Moves.

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Metrics Donor Fundraising Retention 42

Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Metrics Social Media Media Social 77

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Work with the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that your goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound). Establish the metrics that will determine which elements work, and which offer opportunities for improvement. Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals. Goals may be dollar-based—e.g.,

Gift 76

Gift Develop Measure Reflection 76

M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. . with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. That’s the destination.

Benchmark 95

Benchmark Data Map Help 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Social Media Measure Action Media 113

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. Which campaign strategies generate the most donations?

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Assess metrics such as your email open rate or online donation rate to measure your success. Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Review your donor demographics. Review your donor demographics.

Donation 52

Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

M+R

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. The deadline to sign up is December 2, 2022.

Benchmark 76

Benchmark Studies Analysis Trend 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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Measure Roles Support Literacy 99

Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A great listener An experienced fundraiser Excells at setting and tracking metrics/ goals So, while your personal preferences may vary, the top qualities of a major gifts officer are pretty consistent. How do you stay up-to-date with best practices and trends in major donor fundraising, and how do you integrate new ideas into your work?

Gift 52

Gift Interview Question Articulate 52

Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Capitalize on the latest volunteerism trends and best practices. Define and apply metrics for measuring program performance. Convert volunteers to donors and vice-versa. Save time by developing more efficient management strategies. Attract new volunteers with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds.

eBook 52

eBook Volunteer Free Management 52

M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Across channels and platforms, we end up with answers about what is working and what’s not, trends in nonprofit strategies, and insight into supporter behavior. . with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. That’s the destination.

Benchmark 85

Benchmark Analysis Aggregator Advocacy 85