Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Keyword research—Find relevant keywords and track their performance over time. Continuous improvement—Once you’ve established SEO practices and procedures, AI tools can help you keep your site optimized for peak performance. Marketers can spend hours gathering research that AI could help you organize and summarize in minutes.”

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Media Cause

JUNE 28, 2021

Here are some best practices our media team uses when creating a new campaign, starting with goals and platforms all the way to tactical tips for executing your campaign. Understanding the demographics of each platform will take a bit of research. . There Are Many Options for Display Ads – Do Your Research!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. How can you show your constituents that your organization is doing its best with what it has? How to Best Illustrate ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. Presentation slides.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. An area I have been researching for the past number of years is a fairly new field called social accounting.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Whether we like it or not, many traditional fundraising practices create an inner circle of supporters. That doesn’t mean that a high ROI is a bad thing, or that these fundraising practices should be retired. Therefore, we recommend taking the following steps to apply DEI best practices for your nonprofit: Lead From the Top.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 22, 2024

Though research shows that engaging residents as volunteers can help cities in all those efforts, many struggle to gain leadership support for the investment of resources necessary to embrace volunteer engagement as a citywide strategy. The second playbook focuses on measuring and communicating impact in meaningful ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Written by Findjoo , this is the second post in a series of three about best practices in digital marketing and fundraising for membership organizations and associations. Research can often help you decide which ones you want to target. It can often help to do some research, to find which hashtags will deliver the best results.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to password complexity, NIST has done some research revealing that forcing users to change passwords has negative and unintended consequences. This is a good strategy: better passwords with a dose of change management tossed in for good measure. The same can be said of random sets of letters, numbers, and symbols.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Analyzed data—usually in the form of charts and dashboards—provides a way for you to measure your organization’s activity against past output or industry standards: it allows you to determine growth and success, or lack thereof. How often has your organization struggled with answering, “How are we doing?”

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there is a need to set standards and expectations. Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding by Robert Wu. Start with a measurable goal. You can help create the Bill of Rights here. Rethink Rewards and Donation Tiers.

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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2021

Nonprofits professionals turn to prospect research time after time to enhance and strengthen their fundraising strategies. This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information on prospective donors, helping your organization better understand its audience and determine key cultivation steps. . fundraising plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Research shows that volunteers today are more motivated by the chance to do meaningful work than any other factor. How can you enhance your impact measurement? Follow these steps: Audit current practice (How do you currently capture and communicate volunteer impact?) Making a difference matters to volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2013

My second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World co-authored with Katie Delahaye Paine and featuring a foreword by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen has been chosen as one of four finalists for the 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. I told him about it and he smiled a big smile!

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

To overcome these challenges, Candid, in coalition with a growing number of partners , set out to build a demographic data-led movement to meaningfully and measurably advance equity in the social sector. For example, Dawn shared how her organization offers nonprofits practical resources and tools to help to get started.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Mastering Dashboards in Blackbaud Grantmaking: Insider Tips and Best Practices from the Experts Go beyond the typical Blackbaud University course and learn about two instructors’ favorite functionality in our grantmaking solution. You also don’t want to create an undue burden on your grantees for extensive reporting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Jenkins & Van Cohen : In early 2019, we discovered research that highlighted that 73% of Gen Z workers reported sometimes or always feeling alone. As we began our pre-pandemic research, it became clear that it wasn’t just Gen Z who were experiencing loneliness, but everyone was. Encourage every team member to participate.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This practice allows you to discover the gaps and plan hiring accordingly. New marketing and advertising channels with measurable goals will help your prospective customers hear about you. Step 5: Now that you’ve completed the research, you can create your new strategic marketing plan. To Offer Staffing Direction.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

While this scenario represents a best practice for major donor portfolios, there is no one answer to the question of when to disqualify a prospect. Prospects should be disqualified but referred to prospect research/biographical records to attempt to refresh contact information before being reassigned to officer portfolios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Erika Croxton, the grist.org staffer who oversees social media strategy, says. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

posted by Karina Lungo , Research Assistant, ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. However, increasingly nonprofits are moving to the practice of outcome evaluation. As part of a.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2022

Research indicates workforce diversity is the cultural or demographic characteristics that makes employees unique, which is needed to effectively confront social issues and achieve social good. Research indicates progress on diversity is dependent on nonprofit boards, which impact nonprofit performance and policies.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

As we look to the future, it’s essential to examine how grantmaking practices can evolve to promote greater equity and inclusivity. This may involve conducting equity audits , adopting anti-racist policies and practices, and actively working to dismantle barriers to access and opportunity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

And naturally, research. The Song of Significance” tackles questions to reset how employees and supervisors view, approach, measure and define work. Special guests share new, focused, highly relevant interviews about the trends, best practices, and questions that matter most right now. What would change?

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. 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 ).

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore six smart strategies to drive major giving success for large nonprofits: Enlist prospect research to identify major donor prospects. Enlist prospect research to identify major donor prospects. Nonprofits often use prospect research to gather and analyze information about potential donors or prospects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Benchmarking, whether an informal or extensive research study, can be an incredibly valuable exercise because the numerical analysis can help you craft realistic measurable objectives. Identifying a SMART objective is an essential to success, but your organization needs to measure results in context. What did you learn?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona (WFSA) commissioned a study to create a more comprehensive, useful measure of self-sufficiency. As part of a.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This shift was marked by commitments of increased funding, greater flexibility in grantmaking practices, and a focus on social and economic systems transformation. My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. ” Many of these practices are used at companies that pride themselves in having productive meetings. What Research Says About Productive Meetings and Conference Calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress.

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