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Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. In addition to tracking app deployments, Code for America has developed metrics that help them understand their impact on the governments they work with, the communities they engage, and the larger civic technology ecosystem.

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Major Gift Metrics: What You Need to Know

DNL OmniMedia

Your major gift officers conduct extensive prospect research, spend months carefully stewarding these prospects, and eventually approach the prospect with a large gift ask that’s been hand-tailored based on the relationship. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So while I’ve been off twitter, I’ve had time to research social CRM (funny, that.) And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact. And what I’ve found is pretty interesting. That was the question I cam to this issue with.

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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

This should come as no surprise: Research I recently conducted suggests that it does. Even without this research, you’ve likely intuited that an effective mission statement draws supporters and donors in and gets them excited about helping you achieve that mission. . Below I’ll share what that research involved and what we learned. .

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. So, it was a natural place to turn to for data to use for this research. from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. that serve the homeless population.

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Cybersecurity: 5 Ways to Better Protect Your Nonprofit Data

Volunteer Hub

This metric is concerning considering that hackers attack every 39 seconds , on average 2,244 times per day. Password Attacks: Password Attacks are exactly what the name implies, they are a combination of methods that hackers use to authenticate into password-protected accounts manually or with the help of software. Here are 5.

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15 Fundraising Success Metrics to Start Tracking

Donor Search

And worry not, there’s no shortage of methods of measuring performance. They’re called fundraising success metrics here, but they are also… Measuring your performance is a crucial step that nonprofits must take to succeed. There’s no better way of isolating and troubleshooting any ongoing problems.

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