Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

I am a big fan of actionable metrics. Fenton’s guide divides up the kinds of metrics you can focus on under the headings See, Say, Feel and Do. Ss I suggest in my Community Mapping approach , the actions and metrics should be mapped against the segments of the community doing them. What do you think?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

DIY Community Engagement Metrics. When people who work in services, programs, grant writing and fundraising, for example, all share their view of the groups in the community, not only can you start mapping the network but you can also have really rich discussions about the way different parts of your organization view the community.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Your most powerful strategy requires getting serious about metrics. All businesses and organizations are governed by them, even when they talk about mission and values, the metrics behind the rhetoric matter. The point of the exercise is to be honest about the value you are bringing to the organization!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Those who commit to the organization’s mission – clients, donors, board members, and staff – all have opinions about the optimal spending levels to execute the mission. Your board may well be aware of metrics surrounding the cost to raise a dollar and be keen to understand what that number is for your nonprofit. About the Sponsor.

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TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

The truth is, it all starts with the “People Talking About” feature on Facebook. Getting as many people talking about and interacting with your content needs to be priority #1 for your nonprofit. Whenever any of the above actions are taken, there is an opportunity for everyone in their network to be given an update about that action.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. About Wistia. First things first, Amy shared an important piece of advice: before you ask about how a social post performed, be sure qualify what you're asking for.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

When sending a fundraising email, nonprofit Digital staff are keenly aware of the metrics that they need to achieve; a high open rate means the most people are actually seeing the content of the email, and a high click rate indicates that the email's messaging was persuasive enough to move people to donate. What is email deliverability?

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The impact of matching gift programs on nonprofit organizations is undeniable. Recent matching gift reports indicate that 84% of donors are more likely to donate if a match is offered, while 1 in 3 would give a larger gift if matching is applied. But if you want to take a look at the specific ways […]

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To learn more about calculating your retention, check out our blog. You should segment your membership by the metrics that matter most to you, such as demographics, tenure, behavior, at-risk status, periods of time and more. To learn more about member engagement best practices, check out this blog.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Please talk with your staff and board members about what goals would best serve your organization and prioritize them. You are likely already collecting data about how many people you serve or your income. Think about what metrics you will use. Your new metric may be a 20% reduction in employee turnover.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

8: Your Organization Doesn’t Have KPIs and Metrics Challenge : Without key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics, your organization is missing out on vital information about your members. Set up your KPI and metrics! If your KPIs and metrics aren’t set up properly, what you do pull could vary tremendously over time.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Even if your platform comes from a reputable vendor and you have ensured stringent SLAs are in place, if your vendor is not transparent about their service from the very beginning you should consider looking elsewhere for your cloud computing needs. Understanding persistent storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Photo by lecercle.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

private and community foundations to learn more about giving trends. Here are four things we learned about GOS grantmaking trends among funders right now. About 10% of foundations indicated they awarded no GOS grants whatsoever. Internally, there is a lack of clarity about what general operating support exactly means.”

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Going Beyond Basic Metrics Learning analytics goes beyond basic metrics to offer you a deeper understanding of course performance and learner engagement. This feedback will help you make informed decisions about course improvements, instructor selection, and program enhancements so you can continuously improve your learning experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

But what about social media as another form of communication? I don’t mean to downplay metrics – metrics are hugely important – but I think mixing up metrics and CRM might make it harder to really do either well. That was the question I cam to this issue with. And I welcome any comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Establishing regular meetings or processes for metrics review helps position us to learn from the data we’re collecting and be better positioned to identify opportunities to improve. And the highest level metric that they lead with is that they have 20 volunteers, and they have 20 every year. data nten'

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics. This session talks about the importance of data and metrics to your work and offers how-to guidelines on ways to map and monitor your community and your work. Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars. But what to measure? How to evaluate?

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Your members can provide you with a lot of data about what they are interested in and how well your association is meeting their needs. You can glean a lot of insights about your members once you get your association on board with engagement analytics. Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The webinar was 90 minutes and she took us through step-by-step about how the new features work. At times it was confusing, complicated , and overwhelming, but I came away a couple of ways to think about the changes in terms of privacy. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2013

During our discussion, Jessica and I talked about nonprofit and political campaigns obsession with vanity metrics. The other problem with relying on vanity metrics is that it dilutes social media’s real purpose – to be social. This is one way communications and there is nothing social about it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

For those 79% of nonprofits out there, I have listed 10 social media metrics below that can be easily tracked and plotted on a Social Media Return on Investment (ROI) Spreadsheet ( Download ). “ Hits &# are not the metric to monitor. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

By carefully implementing taxonomy and metadata, you will learn more about your members and their preferences. You can learn more about content tagging and taxonomy in this blog. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. Analyze Performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. One point that he keeps making over and over: Metrics must have meaning or else they’re just numbers. Peterson is the founder and senior partner. Click for larger image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.”

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It not only helps raise awareness about your cause but also enables you to connect with a wider audience and attract potential donors and volunteers. Regular updates keep your audience engaged and informed about your activities. Consistency : Consistency is key when it comes to social media.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like-minded people need to know about your organization, and the right marketing concept will help you achieve this. Below you will find a short but informative template that contains everything about creating a nonprofit marketing plan. But soon you will understand what it is about. Start Working on Content Plan.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. First and foremost, fundraising is about one thing – relationships. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI! Fundraising outcomes (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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M+R

APRIL 24, 2024

Cram your cranium with metrics on email and mobile messaging, advertising, web traffic, social media and influencers, and more. About a quarter of nonprofits had active peer to peer mobile messaging programs in 2023, driving event attendance, recruiting volunteers, and generating donations and advocacy actions.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. A good place to start is to think about the metrics that are most important to each campaign. A good place to start is to think about the metrics that are most important to each campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2021

Join Accelerist as we talk with the Development Team at the National 4-H Council about their journey in discovering and investing in stewardship technology tools. Overview of data and metrics you need to start tracking now! Are you taking the necessary steps to set your partnership up for longevity and success?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yes, there are many, many things about 2020 that we’d just as soon forget. Before we get into specifics, some business about how we looked at this data: because Giving Tuesday jumps around, we can’t just look at December revenue year over year and keep things apples to apples. What Bill Murray can teach you about email marketing.

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