Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Some greyhounds come to us with track injuries. Still others need some time to adjust to a life away from the track. It doesn’t spew mind-numbing facts and stats about the need and their accomplishments. Element #6: Contact info for questions. Others are very shy. It doesn’t tell the long history of how they’ve grown.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

With that in mind, ask yourself these questions: Do you have board members who are giving consistently? . So how do you keep track of them? Keep in mind this isn’t the time to go on about stats and successes of your programs—save that for another time. Do you have volunteers who are volunteering multiple times each month? .

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Keep track of your online donors. . Ask supporters open-ended questions. Question: When there are so many different social media platforms—not to mention the old standbys of email and texts—how do you reach your followers? Keep track of your online donors. . You may already be keeping track of your donors!

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The stats show that mentioning matching gifts in fundraising appeals results in a 71% increase in the response rate and a 51% increase in the average donation amount (and that’s prior to receiving matching gift funds). This will help keep everyone on track. Why focus on a matching grant? Next, set a fundraising goal for #GivingTuesday.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! Set it up on your website and blog so that you can track your efforts. Once you’ve got the basic setup done look into using Google Analytics to track campaigns. Ask Questions (true/false, fill in the blank, yes/no, Try “Fill in the Blank” Posts. First, set up a bit.ly

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The Fundraising Authority

MAY 8, 2021

This post will clarify any questions you might have and help you make the most of your grant! Then you’ll need to apply (you can do this by answering a few questions and uploading a few basic stats). Track Your Ads’ Performance At this point, you have a Google Ads account. Track as many as you can.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Follow along, email us your questions , and let us know what you’d like to hear about! If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. But it doesn’t have to be. Sounds horrible, right?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2013

That’s why I took Exact Target’s fantastic list of 50 Email Marketing Tips and Stats for 2014 and boiled it down to three key takeaways for nonprofits. According to email testing and tracking service Litmus, approximately four percent of all email opens can be attributed to Gmail webmail users, as of June 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

All that you can really assume are the things that aren’t assumptions; give your community the chance to tell you their preferences and interests, and track what you can (from email opens and clicks, to actions taken) to be sure you are responding to the facts whenever possible. You know more about the tools.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# Great question. The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Postrank Analytics.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

If it seems awkward when you pop the question, you’re probably not doing it right. Still, others may prefer high-level stats or an executive summary of what you accomplished in the last year. Make sure you can answer questions about their work, education, family, wealth, network, and passion points. Learn Everything You Can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Certainly, some subtle peer pressure to do your homework. And it’s not very useful.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2010

So, if we were you, we'd download the full report and then give it a read, asking yourself these important questions: Are we tracking these stats? Sometimes groups only focus on certain stats, and you may not be getting the full picture. Are my results different?

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There is no magic software that is right for everyone, but by knowing the right questions to ask will get you ahead of the game. MUST HAVE #4: REPORTS TAKE ONE-HOUR EVERY MONTH TO LOOK AT YOUR EMAIL STATS AND REEVALUATE YOUR STRATEGY. At the bare minimum, you should be able to track open rates, click-through rates and opt-outs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

We're tracking open rates, web site hits, blog comments, people served, high-dollar donations, staff productivity, and thousands of other things across our organizations. Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?" " Why are you tracking all those things? You don't have to keep track of everything.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Help the nonprofit community find out the answers to all of these questions and more (and win awesome prizes like a Kindle or a $100 donation to your favorite charity) by taking the Nonprofit Tech Needs Survey. Since launching the survey , the data coming in has been fascinating. Probably because there are so many free tools on the market.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2011

As we talked through all the stats – how many nonprofits are on Facebook, what they're doing there, and so on – a great questions came from the crowd. Some of the ways that Social CRM can help untangle the mess: Record and track social media interactions alongside email and member service interactions. Things got unpredictable.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

There is also general lack of integrated risk management systems in business for employees to submit risks to the organization for tracking, sourcing and mitigation. 4Change Chat Questions on Change Failure: What is the value of failure? Change: an event that occurs when something passes from one stat or phase to another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. I have not done this yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. made me pause and wonder whether Feedburner is still the best option for tracking subscriber growth overtime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. Geoff Livingston keeps the social media measurement conversation rolling with this great question about what to measure … Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box We launched the Zoetica Salon this week.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

For each major marketing initiative answer the following questions. Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Thank people, answer questions, follow up, and show personality to build on these relationships. Who are the target audiences?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

I'm talking about a product that uses the tools of tracking, gaming, and me-to-we design to give a fabulous experience: Nike+. Nike+ is a combined iPod and shoe sensor product that allows users to track every step of their runs. First, Nike+ offers tracking. On level two, you get the sensor, the tracking, the points.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. These features include donor portals where fundraisers can view their stats, such as how much they’ve raised so far and who is giving to their pages. Use the dashboard to track your revenue that comes in from matching gifts.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. Research Questions. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? It’s totally free, really comprehensive and easy to install.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything. Twitter - to announce new blog posts, breaking news related to our work, and to ask supporters (followers) questions to get to know them better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

If you are reading many blogs and entering in many conversations, how to track where you've left comments? The conversation brought out some interesting questions, so I summarized and added my thoughts in a follow up post called " How Do You Define Creative Commons Attribution?". For example, these are the stats for the above post.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

No matter what type of report you may end up utilizing for your own work, it is important to ask a few assessment questions. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Here's the thread.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The big questions are, how can people make changes to improve the working conditions, and how can leaders help organizations run better? In an old job, I was asked to track all the costs and benefits of family programs. In an old life, I took plenty of stats. How we do our work and how we can improve it.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2014

Have a policy or understanding with your Accounting Department of how disaster donations will be tracked and acknowledged. Disaster stats will need to be updated daily. The key is preparedness ; the time for questions is not when disaster strikes. There should be a unique plan for each audience. Immediacy is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. So, what key metric are your tracking for your blog or social media strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

You use cookies to track that visit. And the efficacy of retargeting and remarketing is not limited to just hypothetical examples and research stats. Now, that brings us to another important question… How To Integrate Retargeting and Remarketing into Your Marketing Strategy? How Retargeting and Remarketing Work?

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