EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

from our friends at Double the Donation Major giving strategies play a major role in many nonprofit organizations’ fundraising success. 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. Consider hosting a capital campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2021

Hear insights on how and why they decided it was crucial to start measuring, tracking, and reporting on the efficacy of their partnerships and how they will use this information to accelerate their entire corporate partnership strategy moving forward. Overview of data and metrics you need to start tracking now!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Fundraisers often have a love/hate relationship with fundraising CRM reports. Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Let’s find out how to achieve that level of reporting Zen consistently.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Some of the most effective online fundraising strategies happen when you dig into your organisation’s data and understand who your donors are, and how they came across to you. . What are UTM s?

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Read on for what to include in your association’s online community strategy. Building a thriving online community starts with a well-considered strategy. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement. Content strategy ?.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. When reporting on these numbers try breaking it down into small digestible chunks of data that are easy to interpret.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

To identify your stewardship strategies, first, consider your current state of affairs. During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

We understand what it takes to empower teams of supporters, and using our firsthand knowledge, we’ve pulled together several volunteer engagement ideas and strategies for maximizing your team’s impact. Much like a volunteer recruitment strategy, this volunteer engagement playbook is essential to all your volunteer programs and activities.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Learn more Measure program outcomes in real time Built-in reporting Bonterra’s native reporting tool empowers grants administrators to measure program outcomes, not just outputs. With access to turn-key dashboards, automated reports, and support from our team of experts, reporting impact becomes easier than ever.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. What Is a Donor Engagement Strategy? Report: Report back to donors and share how your nonprofit is making a difference.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2021

Your content strategy is a living document that should be adjusted and optimized on a regular basis. Creating a well-thought-out content strategy, tracking meaningful KPIs, and analyzing how it’s performing can help your organization optimize your website. Why you need a measurement plan.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy encompasses more than just earning donations from supporters. Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the process of building a fundraising strategy. With that, let’s get started.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. What kind of digital touchpoints did you incorporate into your development strategies? These are all great adaptive strategies, but now what? . Pillar #1—No Longer Optional: Your Nonprofit Digital Strategy in 2021 and Beyond.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

I asked fans on Facebook, “Does your organization use an editorial calendar and “editorial meetings” to get ideas and manage content for a content strategy?” These meetings in addition to other check ins and end of year planning all comes together to plot out our themes and strategy.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. This knowledge will help you introduce new marketing channels into your strategy. Haven’t tried email marketing yet? To See The Big Picture. To Create New Customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media. Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Using data to help your organization thrive Here are four strategies to help data drive your decisions so your organization can thrive! Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. This is a measurable number that could be adapted if the survey needed to be given in different formats.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major Gift Fundraising Strategies for Every Phase of the Process In this guide, we’ll take you step by step through every part of the major gift fundraising process and provide you with tips for securing more (and larger!) Impact 4 Ways to Expertly Manage Donor Data 9 min read Read Now Perform Prospect Research What Is This Strategy?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So why wouldn’t you incorporate soliciting donor-advised funds into your fundraising strategy? You can use your Donor Management System to keep track of grants from donor-advised funds along with the recommending donor with these helpful features: Soft Credits for Charitable Sponsors . Reports can include: Major Gifts Follow Up Report.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 8, 2023

Innovate with modern software and AI to improve your member recruitment and retention strategy by leveraging past member data to predict if a constituent is unlikely to renew. If you want to offer real insights for your organization, look for an AMS that offers user-friendly reports and dashboards.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

EGA has a long-standing history that includes more than 10 years of data collaboration with Candid, to support their Tracking the Field (TTF) research program. EGA found only 21% of environmental grantees who reported have leadership that identifies as BIPOC—compared to 25% for nonprofits across all issue areas.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What parts of your digital strategy are working well? 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. Those looking to have reliable, recurring reports will need to invest time in setting up custom reports in Looker Studio.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Some associations have saved hundreds of hours on report creation per year.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Measure your outcomes and tell your story. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Augment your reporting with data analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. Dear In the Digital Wilderness, No doubt about it, embracing digital marketing and fundraising strategies is certainly a new frontier for most nonprofits. How can these tools help you track meaningful data?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

An effective campaign is a product of careful planning and strategy. This autopsy can be enormously insightful in refining your strategies and sidestepping pitfalls for the current year. Understanding those nuances and optimizing each channel for maximum impact is pivotal in your fundraising strategy. Absolutely not!

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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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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Tracking campaign performance with data analytics tools allows you to understand and refine your strategies, optimize your efforts, and maximize ad spend. Despite this obstacle in measurement, this tool and others like it are still incredibly useful. Learn more about web analytics tools, data privacy, and reporting today.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its own challenges: extensive reporting mandates, a list of requirements to qualify for funding, and the possibility of mission creep to meet those requirements. Adopt a robust fund accounting system.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

This prompt essentially asks users to opt-in and “allow” apps and websites to track their activity. If a user opts into tracking, nothing really changes. Currently, every app impacted by Apple’s update is going to have to come up with their own solution to these new data privacy measures. How will iOS14.5 No More Breakdowns.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes. The results of the study are available in this graphic report.

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