Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ? Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

The third issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. 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.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 11, 2016

This post originally appeared in NTEN's July Connect newsletter. In fact, according to the annual Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R , email fundraising revenue alone increased by a whopping 25% last year, outpacing the overall growth of other online revenue sources. What Email Deliverability Is and Isn’t.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

In this blog, you’ll find articles about: Opinions on Industry Trends, Topics in Behavioral Science, Whitepapers and Case Studies in Philanthropy, and Direct Mail and Online Fundraising. NTEN CONNECT BLOG. THE AGITATOR / DONOR VOICE. BETH’S BLOG. Beth Kanter ( @kanter ) is well known as a thought leader in the nonprofit world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I worked with Alexandra and her company to design a study that gather insights about social media usage and charitable giving. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Since it does not require extra work or management by Epic Change, they may continue to offer it for their campaigns and measure any growth in interest. This overview is part of a larger case study on Epic Change's last campaign that we'll post later this summer.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: _ES Amy Sample Ward lays out 5 strategic steps for measuring the ROI of social media for your organization. There are no easy equations, but this is sound advice on how to go from identifying the problem (or goal) to measuring the impact of a social media strategy (or tool). What do you know, NTEN made the news!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. The event will reveal the results of the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , which: Provides updated industry-wide metrics to analyze your online program. Discusses how the financial crisis is affecting online fundraising.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

I’m really curious about how networked nonprofits can use measurement and make decisions using data to get more impact from networked approaches. I want to hear about your successes and challenges in making your networked nonprofit more effective using measurement and data to make decisions about effective use of emerging media.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

(If you missed that post, check it out for case studies, webinars, and other resources that might help.) The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

So we decided to do it again: We teamed up with M+R and the organizations who participated in our 2012 eBenchmarks Study to get a closer look at how nonprofits are using Facebook Pages to engage their audiences. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. The study suggests that peers will play a bigger role in influencing donations. This is going to make the response rates and causality that we can measure today become more difficult in the future. " Mark Twain.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites. What do you think? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. What’s unclear is whether or not nonprofits in the survey are measuring engagement and return on relationships.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The December issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. Featured in this issue: " From Outcomes to Impact ," by Julie Macalik with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success, which provides guidance for measuring the real impact of your nonprofit. "

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. Case-Study from Metropolitan Chicago YMCA on using data to drive efficiency and measure impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

For the So What rule to work, you have to follow the 7 steps of measurement and have worked out a ladder of engagement. We will be covering these in an upcoming NTEN Webinar on November 28th. One of the messages in the book is “Collect less data, think more about it.” The Honest Looser Award.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

Steven has contributed content to the National Council of Nonprofits, AFP, NTEN and Nonprofit Hub, and is a frequent conference speaker. Though retention rates fell, they are still in the same general percentile neighborhood that they have been since 2006 (the first year of the FEP study). The Bad News. 2020 is no exception.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

By the way, NTEN posted some great tips for social media use , by Marc Pitman, founder of The Fundraising Coach. A 2014 digital marketing study by Adobe concluded that 54 percent of unsuccessful marketers say that “testing is not a priority.” If donors understand impact and results, they are more likely to donate again. and again.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

They do in-depth and impartial software reviews for TechSoup and NTEN, run webinars for TAG, and present at all the major conferences. The study includes case studies on how nonprofit technology capacity building is being done well. Idealware was founded and is led by Laura Quinn. TechSoup Software Donations for Foundations.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Yes, there are a couple case studies included in the report of organizations using mGive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

As you refine your fundraising strategy and explore new ways of connecting with donors, check out Blackbaud ''s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits to compare your organization to others and gather new ideas. to "Salesforce security settings." Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

How will you measure success? According to a recent Nielsen study , they don’t do much else but text and breathe. I’d be interested in a case study that looks at lessons learned and results. Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience? But many smaller organizations don’t.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Q: My sector isn’t in the study.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I recently got my copy of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine. In the foreward, Beth and Katie say that “measurement is the secret sauce; we provide the recipe.” Here’s a case study of my own! Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Here at NTEN, we find it valuable to keep track of both numbers. The traditional measure of open rates – total messages opened ÷ total messages delivered – should be used to gauge the overall health of your e-mail program. The average of all the open rates of every message you send is a measure of how well you segment your lists.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. Still, these reports are some of the best measuring sticks we have. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends. donating money).

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Thanks to the eBenchmarks research series NTEN has partnered with M+R Strategic Services to create, you can now impress your boss and colleagues with your knowledge of not only how to calculate your organization's fan page churn but also what kinds of goals you might want to set for your Facebook strategy around this metric.

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