Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Nonprofits need to follow WCAG because accessibility is the foundation of our work. As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. This tool by WebAIM checks the contrast between your foreground and background by providing ratios based on hex codes. .

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Guidelines Accessibility Design Content 52

Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

Check out some of the Facebook data findings: Comparing email subscribers to Facebook page users – On average, the nonprofits studied had 110 Facebook fans per 1000 email list subscribers. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000.

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Facebook Metrics Ratio Rate 76

Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

Email marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for nonprofits to drive supporter engagement and boost their overall fundraising efforts. In fact, matching gift emails sent in the first 24 hours after a donation result in 2-3 times higher than the average nonprofit email open rate !

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Gift Results email Metrics 97

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Examining the best nonprofit websites out there may give you an idea about whether it’s time to revamp your website or not, but we recommend also using a more empirical approach to determine if you need a new online strategy. These are not the types of questions you want your audience to ask about your nonprofit.

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Websites Nonprofit Audience Mobile 115

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom. What do you suggest?

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Report Ratio Tucson Director 86

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Here are three kinds of fundraising events that work for most nonprofits and how to choose the right one for you. You already know that every dollar counts in your nonprofit. So, what’s the RIGHT event for your nonprofit?

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Money Fundraising Fun Sponsor 130

Classy

JUNE 4, 2021

While most matching gift companies match at a 1:1 ratio, some even match at a 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 ratio. Most matching gift programs offer funds at a 1:1 ratio, but some even go as high as 4:1. Ensure that email communications with these requests are always branded to make clear they are from a trusted source (your nonprofit).

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Gift Strategy Ratio Fundraising 57

NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

Note from Beth: I am honored to be a member of Leap Ambassadors Community , a private community of nonprofit thought leaders and practitioners. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. But we in the nonprofit sector must try. It’s the nonprofit’s job. Social change is hard.

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Measure Metrics Nonprofit Ratio 50

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Nonprofits receive donations and support from a variety of sources, but corporate partnerships stand out as one of the most essential and reliable funding streams. In this guide, we’ll review the basics of corporate philanthropy so that your nonprofit can start earning more through this lucrative funding source. Access to expertise.

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Philanthropy Grant Sponsor Nonprofit 52

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it.

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Ratio Fundraising Metrics Raise 52

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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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

posted by Caitlin Dixon Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. How will investing in nonprofit Human Resource infrastructure promote stronger leadership, quality staff retention, and sustainable community support? It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress.

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Resource Ratio San Francisco Retention 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile – Guest Post by Jacob Harold, Guidestar. GuideStar’s vision is to drive philanthropy by increasing nonprofit data collection, distribution, and innovation. I am happy to officially debut our completely redesigned GuideStar Nonprofit Profiles. It’s simple.

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Profile Ratio Green Nonprofit 50

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

New and developing nonprofit technology is constantly paving the way for improved fundraising and overall donor experiences. Here are a few tried-and-true best practices to follow: Promote matching gifts throughout your nonprofit website. Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. Match ratios. Match request deadlines.

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Gift Technology Tips Database 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Arts and Social Media. View more presentations from Devon Smith.

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Benchmark Social Media Measure Results 96

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a nonprofit professional, you’re likely familiar with the hustle of securing funding for your cause. From brainstorming new fundraising ideas to reaching out to prospective donors, nonprofits use much of their team members’ time to figure out how to raise more money.

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Guide Giving Grant Gift 52

BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

BoardAssist prides itself on identifying board candidates for the nonprofit world who will be leaders on the boards where we place them. One of the many ways they do this is often by being the sole, or one of just a few, voices advising on financial health issues – critical for any nonprofit. Six months provides a nice cushion.

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Measure Practice Ratio Conservancy 40

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Does your nonprofit have a digital marketing plan ? Why Nonprofits Need A Digital Marketing Plan. As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. How To Build A Nonprofit Digital Marketing Plan (That works). Ready to get started?

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As a nonprofit organization, which factor do you believe best showcases the success of your mission? Overhead to program expense ratio. Coffman stated in their 2004 GuideStar article : “There’s no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. As Chuck McLean and Suzanne E.

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Measure ROI Organization Ratio 31

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nonprofit professionals have a set of top priorities—including raising funds for their mission. Have you ever heard a nonprofit say something like, “Made possible by…” or “Thanks to our friends at…”? Simply determine a match ratio, such as 1:1 or 2:1, and donate as the requests come in! What is workplace giving?

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Community Giving Companies Gift 52

Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. How effective is that organization in creating real world social change?

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Evaluation Charity Ratio Rate 77

Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Which KPI's your nonprofit organization ultimately uses will depend heavily on its goals and the goals of your website (your site does have a purpose, right?!?). If you, like most nonprofits, accept donations on your website, then you should consider yourself to be running a "commerce" site, too. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Analytics Google Websites Metrics 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This is the most important part of your web analytics.

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Analytics Google Social Media Websites 54

Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Each year you should be evaluating your Annual Operating Plan , reviewing metrics and benchmarks, and determining the ratios and drivers you will use to determine the most effective areas to which to allocate your resources and capital to achieve the optimal return on investment.

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Blackbaud Team Management Lesson 36

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

”— the fundraiser and strategist in me can't help but think how this kind of behavior and interaction applies to ways nonprofits are trying to engage with their constituents. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. Metrics, metrics, metrics.

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Facebook Ratio Influence Social Media 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Automating Listening: You can automate your listening by using a tool like Tweetscan and search for particular terms - like nonprofit. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?"

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Where do you look for standard metrics? I think it is wrong to think about metrics first.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. Use a template similar to this: Many companies actually match donations made by their employees to schools and other nonprofits. Types of qualifying nonprofits. Match ratios.

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Guide Script Tips Gift 98

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Nonprofits can learn from email campaigns corporate marketers are sending. While nonprofits often personalize direct mail campaigns—based on giving history, interests and past actions—that approach isn’t always carried over to their email campaigns. Should nonprofits follow suit and test these elements? Follow-Up Approaches.

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email Campaign Test Benchmark 48

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact or the Microsoft Ad Grant is a program available to eligible nonprofits to help transform their digital presence. To understand how the Microsoft Ad Grant can benefit your nonprofit, we will answer the following questions: . Nonprofit Source is a go-to for all nonprofit digital marketing strategies.

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Grant Nonprofit Digital Metrics 97

Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s clear that having a comprehensive online fundraising strategy is crucial for modern nonprofits. When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. But first, let’s review a few online fundraising basics.

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 94

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Nonprofit development departments come in all shapes and sizes. 5) Fundraising Metrics. Data derived from key fundraising metrics is great for driving decisions at an organizational level but for the sake of simplicity here are two metrics you should include on any public-facing fundraising page: Funds Raised.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52