Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You may be wondering where to focus your fundraising as we emerge from the fog of 2020 and into, perhaps, a less cloudy future when it comes to nonprofit giving trends. Charitable giving was up in 2020 , and projections for nonprofit giving trends in 2021 and 2022 are even rosier. Nonprofit Giving Trends on the Horizon.

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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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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the world of philanthropy, the coming year promises innovative corporate giving trends that can benefit both nonprofit fundraisers seeking support and corporations eager to make a meaningful societal impact. If you’re ready to explore the growing power of CSR, let’s dive into the latest trends in corporate giving.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Under 45 and giving micro-amounts is pretty much matching with our own analysis, but at Donadora we don’t measure political views of our community, so I can’t answer on this point.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. Garth’s thought-provoking response to this trend is pertinent for any smaller association. You’re stuck using revenue growth as the primary measure of success when you could focus on impact.”

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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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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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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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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. Barriers to Email Measurement Keep Rising Measuring email performance has changed, and it continues to become more difficult. The 16th annual Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report is here!

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. Analyzing Instructor Performance Be sure to track completion rates, course ratings, and learner engagement for each of your different instructors so you can easily identify trends and discrepancies.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Here are five corporate giving trends to watch in 2019 and how they’ll affect your business, employees, and consumers. Employees will demand more of this type of involvement and corporate responsibility from their companies, making it crucial to employee satisfaction that businesses support this corporate giving trend.

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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. Download the FREE Guide.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Here’s a few of the highlights … Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. Check out the presentation slides … 2011 Online Giving Trends by Blackbaud – presented by Frank Barry. Sharing baked right in.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To grow your education business, you need to take advantage of the sophisticated metrics now available through modern data analytics – trends, behaviors, preferences, popularity, geography and much more. It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. This is real knowledge!

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you can look at historical or yearly trends on a graph to identify patterns, but by drilling deeper into the analytics you can uncover insights to help put your data into action. Consider these data points as you assess your event registrations: What trends or patterns exist in your registration data? Does it fluctuate?

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Maybe your association is experiencing challenges, so you’re searching for strategies to empower your staff and enhance the member experience. Regardless of your large association’s situation, the Nimble AMS team is here to offer tips to measure your success and meet your future goals! We are very fortunate to have Nimble AMS.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. Thankfully the Bloomerang blog does!

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

Request a Demo The post Trends in Grantmaking: Don’t Leave Your Foundation’s Impact Story to Chance first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Manage your entire grantmaking workflow, from online grant applications through payments Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT fits your organization.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

I’m often invited to speak with organizations about the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends. While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function. The first is to share my view on some of the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends.

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Trend Demographics Philanthropy Generation 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

A connected throughline of our shared humanity With that in mind, as I reflect on the influences, changes, and overall trends we have seen in employee engagement, philanthropy, and CSR in 2023, and those that are to come in 2024, I cannot help but be struck by the notion that it is not about specific trends or actions.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” KPIs should be clear, quantifiable, and adaptable.

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Data Metrics Measure Goal 91

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? However, according to a Gartner survey, 42% of data and analytics leaders do not measure or assess their data. Download now.

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Charity Village

APRIL 27, 2023

McLean & Company released the Employee Engagement Trends Report 2023, which highlights the need to measure and improve employee engagement. The report provides a baseline to inform employee engagement measurements and initiatives in 2023 and beyond.

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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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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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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. Because of this, general operating support is seen as a measure of funder trust in grantee organizations. I just don’t think the trend will stay within two years.”

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Paired with your experience and judgment, your decisions can be data informed or data guided using less specific data measurements. Consider your average spending year over year or the trend in your retention over a period of time. Are you doing better at engaging your members over time? Be specific about what data you keep and why.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Industry reports can provide you with insights into your industry, such as the latest trends, the competitive landscape, and the regulatory environment. Measure Results “Marketers are always looking to measure their skills. I would look for surveys that have been conducted recently and that have a large sample size.

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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. Having this data will help you make business decisions based on trends or actual performance. These two tools will help you measure the success of your campaigns.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming. In this session, Blackbaud Senior Product Manager Brenda Noiseux will walk through some best practices to measure impact in meaningful ways without requiring mounds of paperwork from your grantees.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

The State of Grantseeking™ Report spotlights current trends in the field. As quickly as things change today, you know how important it is to stay on top of these trends, adjusting your own expectations accordingly. " One resource is the State of Grantseeking™ Report that GrantStation publishes every six months.

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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. As BoardSource points out, even measuring your ROI is more than just money in vs. money out. 3) Past Trends.

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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. Look at what activities are trending higher and which are missing the mark. Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This heightened awareness isn’t just a trend; it’s a shift in user behavior and expectations that impacts all sectors, including the world of digital fundraising for nonprofits. The compliance is not just a legal necessity but also a trust-building measure with their donors and supporters.

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