Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. LinkedIn Pages.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A Major gifts officer cultivates high-level donors, connecting with them individually to build relationships that significantly impact your nonprofit. The MGO is a big deal because it requires a unique skill set: A love for people A genuine dedication to your cause A good storyteller (and ‘question asker’!) How would you move forward?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

When I talk with nonprofit leaders about digital transformation , I get responses that range from excitement and optimism to skepticism and overwhelm. Research shows that nonprofits that have worked through a digital transformation process are fast, agile, and resilient. They can work quickly to collect and learn from data.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

Embracing innovation can transform your nonprofit. But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Let’s start by understanding ‘culture of innovation’ and why it matters.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

from our friends at ParsonsTKO Selecting technology for a nonprofit or social good organization can take significant time and effort. As you use these questions to engage in dialogue with your board, it helps to remember that board members may have opinions and learned experience about what tools and systems are best. Let’s dive in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with. Metrics Tracking. >> Presentation.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Your nonprofit relies on storytelling to forge emotional connections with potential supporters and spread awareness of your mission. As technology evolves, your nonprofit should expand to tell your story in more engaging, shareable, and innovative ways, such as podcasting. Connect with nonprofit professionals.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. To adequately fulfill the three duties of a nonprofit board member —Care, Loyalty, and Obedience—a solid understanding of the organization’s financial activities is needed. Be sure to allow time for questions. What is your board’s financial IQ?

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

A successful nonprofit strategy is all about getting critical resource decisions right to achieve organizational goals. It sounds straightforward, yet many nonprofit organizations struggle with the strategic planning process, especially when not knowing why, where, or how to start.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to content management systems (CMS), WordPress is a stellar choice for a variety of organizations, including businesses and nonprofits. However, unlike business employees, nonprofit professionals may not have the time to devote to a website strategy or the capacity to spend time mastering a complex CMS. About page.

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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. Here are some of Amy's thoughts on these common social media metrics and how to achieve them. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate. Ready to start posting?

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EveryAction

APRIL 6, 2017

I recently sat down with the good folks at The Campaign Workshop and chatted about marketing automation for nonprofits. The Campaign Workshop: "Why should I care about nonprofit marketing automation?". TCW: "What's a common mistake nonprofits make with marketing automation?".

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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. I modified one of his corporate versions for nonprofits above. One point that he keeps making over and over: Metrics must have meaning or else they’re just numbers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

In the nonprofit world we use this acronym to mean “Constituent Relationship Management&# , generally. That was the question I cam to this issue with. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By Beth Kanter & Joan Garry Leading with empathy is one of the most effective ways to avoid burnout at your nonprofit. Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Let’s say you’ve been tasked with researching potential nonprofits to partner with on an upcoming funding initiative by doing some online research, using Google, Candid’s nonprofit profiles , or the like. HubSpot’s recent research helps to answer this question: branded video content is the most memorable.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Instead of focusing on metrics first, ask yourself what you ultimately want people to do. In the same way, many nonprofits still focus too much on counting Facebook likes and Twitter followers as if these metrics are the end goal, and then feel frustrated when they're not getting the results they expected.

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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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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Morgan McLenan works on the Project Team at Donorly, where she is able to strengthen development initiatives for critical nonprofits. The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. What can data help your nonprofit achieve? Who is ready to give?

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Candid

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2023, 62,575 nonprofits earned or renewed their Candid Seals of Transparency. Over 1,000 nonprofits attended our 2024 Seals webinar , but we know there are many more out there looking to tell their story of impact and share that story broadly with current and potential donors to make their case for funding.

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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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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! Check out the questions and answers below – they should be useful whether or not you were able to attend the webinar last week.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

nonprofits through Candid’s nonprofit profiles. This initiative aims to standardize and centralize nonprofit demographic data collection. nonprofit sector, we want to better identify who , exactly, is sharing demographic data with Candid and what information they are sharing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Number two is revenue.

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2013

Every nonprofit knows that good content is king. If you think your website is filled with outdated and boring content, you may be questioning how well you are engaging your activists and donors. Heck, even if you think you have awesome content, you are probably asking yourself the same the question.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A big part of being a nonprofit leader is creating and maintaining a fruitful relationship with your board. And when it comes to creating a nonprofit business plan for your organization, that’s a task that generally falls to the board—a situation that can create a big disconnect between what you need and what you actually get.

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M+R

MARCH 11, 2024

Have a question? The annual M+R Benchmarks Study will once again explore the labyrinth of nonprofit digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing metrics. So fire up your racecar (or thimble, or boot, or whatever), and get ready for a tour of digital metrics that will take you from Baltic to Boardwalk. Just not sure?

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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. Team DNL provides Digital Nonprofit Leadership to mid-sized and large nonprofit organizations. This includes assisting with nonprofit analytics!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Great question! However, most board members aren’t familiar with various fundraising metrics and won’t be able to draw effective conclusions when they’re presented with data without an explanation of what the data shows. . The last thing you want to do is waste their time and bog their donor reports down with unnecessary metrics. .

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

This short paragraph should answer questions such as: Why is this project worth doing? The problem statement should not presume a cause or prescribe a solution but should answer questions such as: What’s wrong or not meeting the needs of our stakeholders? Goals and Metrics What does success look like? How big is the problem?

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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. His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

50% of nonprofits receive the majority of donations from October through December, so it’s critical that you have a plan in place to maximize your fundraising efforts during this time. Most nonprofits begin their year-end fundraising planning in November, but 7.7% to submit tax-deductible gifts. start as early as September.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

No matter where you are on your journey in the nonprofit world, fundraising is the lifeblood that fuels the important, world-changing work you do. A thorough, thoughtful strategy takes the guess work out of the daily operations of your nonprofit. Donor stewardship What is the average donor’s experience with your nonprofit?

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

As nonprofit professionals, we often wear many hats, having to fill the roles of copywriter, editor, marketer, and more. With Open AI’s ChatGPT , nonprofits can generate high-quality emails in a fraction of the time it would usually take to write them. As you can see, ChatGPT is a terrific tool for nonprofit email communication.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics.

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