The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Secure Your Supporters’ Trust: Mastering Privacy-Compliant Fundraising In an age where every click, like, and share is meticulously tracked, the landscape of digital fundraising is evolving rapidly. This has led to increasing awareness among internet users about the implications of their digital footprints.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. After all, philanthropic investments are measured in impact rather than dollars alone. How do they prefer to be asked ?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2023

We’ll discuss the potential risks associated with donation processing and provide proactive measures you can take to safeguard your nonprofit’s funds. Some payment processors take proactive measures to prevent fraudulent charges. How do you reconcile and track charges and can we do this within our existing CRM solution?

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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. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time. How to Measure Success. Spend Time in Pre-Production.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Making the switch is vital — if you’re still using the old version, your data is no longer being tracked. Event-Based Tracking: Where the previous version was session-based, GA4 is event-based. leads) it’s bringing in.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible. Redefine Success by Solution Testing.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a great question to play with for creating a unique prompt for creating draft personas for your nonprofit. Validate the personas : After creating the donor personas, you need to validate them by testing them with your donor database. How are donor personas usually created?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. You can suggest small steps and test them with your grantees and your colleagues.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

With 28 sessions across five content tracks, you will find thought-provoking discussions, practical takeaways from your peers, and have questions answered in real time by Salesforce product experts. And with 28 sessions across all five international content tracks, there’s something for everyone. Still not convinced to join us?

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Key features of the NPSP include: Donor and volunteer management: Keep detailed records of donors, track their giving history, and segment them for more targeted outreach. Program management: Monitor program outcomes, track beneficiary interactions, and demonstrate the impact of your work to stakeholders. Who will we store in the CRM?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Upgrading your nonprofits technology is always a must-do, however not proving the proper post-implementation measures can lead to a lack of adoption or low use of new features, rendering the investment worthless. Usability Testing. Keep track of future upgrades, department needs, and the allocation of resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. It also helps you keep track of progress made towards goals.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

To show you how you can make acquisition goal setting a breeze, I’ll focus on three things: timing, defining, and measuring. . In this case, that means making sure there’s consensus about what your goals are so there’s no question about what you and your team should be working on when it comes to acquiring new donors. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There are lots of reasons to measure the impact of your volunteers. Would you believe almost half of nonprofits don’t do anything to measure their volunteer programs ? Do you track the number of volunteers engaged with your organization? Yes, consistently Occasionally No, we do not track this Unsure 3. But not you.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

You want to track a variety of interactions between your organization and its supporters, going beyond the basics. Effective impact measurement and reporting: Nonprofits rely on data warehouses to track and measure their impact over time. It’s essential to understand your needs so they can guide the entire process.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The easiest way to develop this understanding is to simply ask your supporters questions. You can answer the following questions: How do donors really feel about your nonprofit? Where would you like to test your hypotheses against actual research? This is done through a process called nonprofit market research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

” The sense-making part is so important! And, one of the questions that keeps coming up is “How do we get our board or senior staff off their addiction to the wrong metrics, like views?” For the So What rule to work, you have to follow the 7 steps of measurement and have worked out a ladder of engagement.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. You need to look behind the scenes to get the real answer to the question “What products are most valuable?”. Track sales trends over time to see if a product becomes more or less popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. Bots can also answer open-ended questions and get smarter as they go, if you train them. Click to Check Out Beth Bot.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

After completing the research phase, you’ll work with your partner agency to identify clear key audiences, define the campaign’s goals, and build frameworks for tracking its performance. Ask yourself and your team questions like: Does the concept highlight your organization’s general mission or cause? Track trends.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. There are virtually unlimited metrics you can track— if you can collect the data, you can analyze it. Develop a process for collecting, tracking, and analyzing data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. You can use ChatGPT to measure the success of your emails.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Your goals should always be SMART goals to ensure that you can easily measure your progress throughout the year and understand how to tweak your strategy to reach your goals.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

One of the top questions we get asked at Whole Whale is “how can we attract new online donors to our organization?” Create a quiz that tests the knowledge of users who are aligned with your organization’s cause. The question is how you convert that traffic on your site to leads. Online quizzes. Plan for segmentation.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Experiment with different styles, such as using questions, statements, or even storytelling, to find the approach that works best for your organization. Test and iterate : AI-generated images may not always meet your expectations on the first try. Test different prompts and variations to find the best results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. They measured and learned from the first pilot which was rapid implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. The real question for you to answer which images drive better engagement. That question can form the basis of many Facebook experiments. Images work for engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A question to ask yourself when you visit your nonprofit’s site is, “Can I easily understand what my organization’s purpose is and is it easy to measure the impact it has had on our community?” . If you cannot answer this question within a minute of visiting your site, it’s time to update your site to communicate that more directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

A business plan tests the proposition in the vision and based on research determines whether it is economically and operationally viable. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure?

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