Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Pew Internet reported that over half of YouTube users say that the platform is at least “somewhat important for helping them understand things that are happening in the world.”.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Instagram Instagram , another Metaverse social media platform, is primarily focused on visual content and thrives on striking imagery, video, and storytelling content. You can use LinkedIn to connect with potential corporate partners, recruit volunteers, and share professional content like reports, case studies, or success stories.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? At a minimum, setting up a Google Analytics account and embedding your Google tracking ID on the backend of your website will capture site traffic data and provide you with reports and useful information so you can make educated decisions.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

This might include reaching a certain fundraising amount or achieving specific metrics like email open rates or donation page conversions. The average nonprofit has a 28.59% email open rate, while small organizations report open rates as high as 45.7%. Engage with storytelling: The theme for your event should tell a story.

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Classy

JULY 28, 2021

Our latest report, The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , elevated data trends from over 4,800 nonprofits to consider when establishing a modern donation experience. Download the full report to dive deeper into these insights, as well as many more. See What’s New In Fundraising. See Where Your Fundraising Stacks Up.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. However, when approached with creativity and strategic thinking, it can serve as a powerful instrument for storytelling, showcasing impact, and inspiring donors and supporters to take action.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Implement procedures to asess metrics. Data storytelling is about bringing your data to life in three simple steps: Explore: find patterns and insights Monitor: check performance (leading indicators and key performance indicators) Explain: go beyond the what and dig further into the why. Be intimate with your data.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don't just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

For example, @nonprofitorgs/lists : Customized for small nonprofits on a limited budget, the Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits webinar highlights current trends in using social media for fundraising, advocacy, and storytelling. 6) Respond to and engage with followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The process of translating your spreadsheet into an infographic can help lead you to insights and the product, the infographic itself, is a good way to report your results as this example of a quarterly dashboard report from DoSomething.Org illustrates. It can also make using data fun ! 1: What is an infographic? .”

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And you’re far from the only one; studies report that 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. Do you schedule one-on-one meetings with your direct reports? Unclear expectations, performance metrics, and goals. Impact storytelling. Leadership style. Organizational culture. Roadblocks.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story. That’s the beauty of data-driven storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics. A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

It’s common knowledge today that storytelling is among the most effective ways to connect with an audience and deliver content in a way that’s catchy, resonant, and memorable. But what does storytelling mean in practice? The post Truly Compelling Cases for Support: 5 Storytelling Tips appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I unpacked the latter with a series of spectragrams asking folks to share their opinions about whether or not social fundraising as a fad or whether or not dollars raised was the only metric for success.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don’t just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! We’ll embrace failure as part of the learning process and as a metric of a true "labs" atmosphere.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Corey Pudhorodsky, Podcasting and Storytelling. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman, Video and Storytelling. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman, Video and Storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In the digital age, where most traditional storytelling is done over the Internet, attention spans are ever shrinking. According to reports, Instagram is currently working on a built in metrics system, so that companies who invest advertising dollars on Instagram can get a moderate picture of ROI. Time is money.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept. Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? For more storytelling tips, check out our guide, How To Tell Stories that Connect, Move, And Inspire Everyone.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Annual reports are, well, an annual topic of conversation (or contention) at most nonprofit organizations, and the majority of for-profit companies and corporations. Pt 1 Why did an agency create an Impact Report, anyway? Pt 1 Why did an agency create an Impact Report, anyway? Inspired by insights. Informed by data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter. Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Surrey, Canada: Metrics that Matter. Vancouver, Canada: Digital Storytelling Workshop. Event Reports. Thursday, November 14. Seattle, WA: Fundraising + Technology: How to Raise Money in a Changing Landscape. Friday, November 15. Guatemala: EgarageTec - Charla con Xik y su experiencia con Métodos ágiles.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Victoria, Canada: The Art of Digital Storytelling - A NetSquared Victoria Panel. Event Reports. Discover the Metrics that Matter with Vancouver ’s latest event video. Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Washington, DC: Web Trends: Wordpress & Beyond.

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See3

JUNE 10, 2009

The Giving USA Foundation’s annual report on charitable giving said that gifts were down in 2008, but not by much, 2%. The actionable intelligence from this report is this: Tell your stories. Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42 And, overall, it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Use of counting metrics. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Written social media plan. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2018

Avoid focusing on the wrong metrics: It’s about quality, not quantity. This person should not only be well organized, but also love storytelling. Whomever is chosen, be sure not to minimize their position by having a member of your own team report to only your organization. Step 2: Choose a leader. Step 3: Develop a process.

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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. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Giving Good Poke.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Between the visual storytelling opportunities, real time update capabilities, almost all of the same advertising options as Facebook, and 1 billion active monthly users* – Instagram is a no brainer to me. they do an amazing job of visual storytelling), @rainforestalliance. , @habitatforhumanity. , @aspca. , charitywater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also like to practice my storytelling skills. What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people. Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact.

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