Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Knowing how, when, and where to break down the system of responsibilities for your volunteers will determine the quality of their experience as well as the success of your events. These tips will allow you to streamline the volunteer management process, launch a strong volunteer program , and reap the rewards of a great scheduling system.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Explore Bloomerang’s sample job descriptions for positions like major gift officer and development director. Bloomerang’s donor database also includes an interactive dashboard to monitor metrics like donor retention, incoming donations, and campaign progress. Hold interviews.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Over the past couple months we have been working with a few organizations and campaigns to put the system through its paces and begin to figure out how to actually use it and learn what kind of impact it can have. Last week, we launched one of the most important pieces of the system for our team; the back-end analytics dashboard.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The Massachussetts Library System Tech Planning Resources page has lots of nice simple templates including Technology Plan Questions to Consider from USAC , and a Basic Technology Inventory Worksheet. Doing a draft technology plan or roadmap that integrates with your organization’s larger strategic plans.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Don’t say “I’ll call you” unless you mean it and have built a system to make sure you don’t fail. Establish clear success metrics. It also includes sample templates, worksheets, and my Creative Ways to Thank Your Donors guide with 72 ideas you can use! Each time, let your donor know when they can expect to hear from you next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Do you need share of voice metrics requiring vast amounts of competitive data from across the web? ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. Does the data need to be exportable? In which formats? Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

Some of the most concrete advice I found on practical management of teleworkers is Jacob Griscom's article How Telecommunications Is Changing Work for Nonprofits , in particular his section on systems for measuring results and accountability. Get Started with These Tips and Sample Telework Policies.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. For this session, I presented two ROI approaches, one for the early stage projects or pilots based on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt and the traditional ROI analysis that IT staff in nonprofits might use for a major hardware or system investment. Does anyone?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Time will tell. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fred Weiss shared an in-depth analysis on the latest trends facing higher education advancement , alumni engagement metrics, and CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey. Key findings from CASE’s 2018 VSE Survey include: . A sample of 404 institutions reported on receipts from DAFs.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This session provides highlights from the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community by Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward and gives you the next steps you need to start working to create real social change online and on the ground.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

With good tools and techniques, however, you can greatly magnify your impact – this post describes how to combine two great tools into a powerful yet easy-to-use donor and volunteer management system. The set-up described below is nearly free and refreshingly simple."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Web metrics, talking to people, emails (who opens, clicks, etc.).

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? Without a good plan in place, you’re going to spend your first month (or two) in the new system dealing with improperly formatted records that leave your nonprofit at a standstill. Not so much. Now for the goods news: We’re to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool. Both ended their experiments with insights about how to set up systems and structures for content creation across channels, linking, and engaging. This experiment focused on using metrics to evaluate how engaging content was and recruitment tactics.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. All Systems Go. Will the money be used much further down the road? Are you funding programs or operations or both? What is a realistic goal for the timeline and your community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit!

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Free Download: Sample Week of Nonprofit Social Media Content.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When choosing the dataset you want to analyze, I suggest narrowing your search so that you are analyzing a more significant sample size of ads relative to the total number of ads for that search. Meta sets limits to how many data entries (ads) it returns using a pagination system. Sample prompt : identify top performing ads.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It was hard to determine whether they were meeting performance metrics. Using Nonprofit Cloud Case Management , they can efficiently monitor client progress and report on key targets and performance metrics through dashboards and reports. All of these data silos made it hard to access client data and report on impact and outcomes.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. With grant applications that automatically populate your grants management system, the information flows seamlessly without manual entry.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We’re not going to give you a deep dive into the systems because every system has their own way, but there are things like Bloomerang and other systems that we’ll share that you can reach out. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Over 180 people with over 635,000 total followers signed up to participate by authorizing Epic Change to post via their Twitter account using JustCoz , an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. If your phone system has the ability to play custom hold tracks, consider playing segments of your podcast when constituents call your offices and are put on hold.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

zerostrategist : Q6: Do the best u can to setup automated systems to capture metrics, look at the numbers, but don’t obsess over them or the ROI. zerostrategist : Q6 Most SM people say that it’s the number of “social actions&# taken during campaign period, but I think it is much more then that # 4change.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bonus: get a free Nonprofit Donor Persona Template + sample to start building your communications strategy now! Most CRM software will allow you to run standard reports that measure typical email metrics: opens, clicks, etc. Using reports to answer some of the typical questions you might get from a board member. A Single Platform.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

What the pandemic revealed, in addition, is the presence of “twin pandemics” as our members are referring to—the pandemic of the healthcare crisis and the pandemic of systemic racism and inequality. We will soon publish results from our work in alumni engagement metrics, and that insight should help institutions as they plan.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Web metrics, talking to people, emails (who opens your alerts, clicks on links, etc.).

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Lastly, most are metrics-driven. So these are things that you guys can be thinking about in your own individual organizations, the metrics. I’m sure you’ve seen other trainings, webinars what, about gathering your metrics. So you should have started putting that in place. What information are they looking for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. The followers for accounts are people who select “follow all,” and pinterest recently upgraded it system. First, let me offer this disclaimer. Inspirational Visual Quotes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Registration here. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. But that would be a lot of content!

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. and trying to be consistent with how you track and how you’re managing that information, are you using a manual system?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

The trick is deciding which metrics will let you know if you're reaching our goals -- turning data into actual intelligence -- and refining both the goals and the metrics over time. > Download our Sample Dashboard < Tags: dashboards measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Determine How To Track.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Even if you never need to code a single line of your site, arming yourself with an understanding of how HTML, CSS, and content management systems (CMSs) are used to build webpages can help you every step of the way. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” That’s what Bloomerang is, that’s what we do. Visit our website. You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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