Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Accordingly, many college and university graduate programs have grown significantly over the last few decades. In fact, from 2011 to 2021, the rate of growth of earned master’s and doctoral degrees outpaced bachelor’s and professional programs. Get together: Communicate across your college or university.

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JULY 24, 2023

As birth rates decline and populations age, the effects on enrollment numbers, funding, and institutional sustainability become increasingly pronounced. do not feel their education was worth the cost, colleges and universities have to work harder and smarter to recruit, enroll, and retain students.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising? This is where your social media engagement rates come in.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Starting during the weekend of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and #GivingTuesday in 2016, Gmail introduced a new method for measuring the quality of engagement when it comes to email deliverability from the email sender to determine if an email should be delivered to an inbox, known as the inbox placement rate.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images Telesilla Kotsi , The Ohio State University and Alfonso J. Pedraza Martinez , University of Notre Dame Most food banks, homeless shelters and other social services nonprofits constantly face hard decisions about how to use their limited funds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? Measure the success of your upgrade asks – do donors who come from your species extinction petition go on to be regular donors at a higher rate? They are universal, so many tools track them or support adding them automatically. How do they respond to upgrade asks?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Even if you have an acceptable rate, you can still come up on the short end when it comes to donation time. Against the seed fund, mission-focused received 80 percent more donations and it also out-performed the matching donation rate by 94 percent. Finding a Different Approach. Featured Fundraising'

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Stakeholders are more likely to participate in collaboration initiatives when they are involved with the drafting of the strategy, and higher participation rates lead to thriving programs. Stakeholders that may require special accommodations should be taken into consideration to increase participation rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Sending emails between Tuesday and Thursday and between 9 AM and 12 PM or 6 PM and 9 PM can also increase open and response rates. However, this is not a universal rule. A/B testing can help determine the most effective sending days and times for an organization’s unique supporter base.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2022

However, if boards and upper management do not prioritize human capitol recruitment and retention with proper funding, then the result is often high turnover rates and lack of skilled leaders. Jade Gale is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Compensation.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now that Google Analytics (GA4) has officially replaced Universal Analytics, many mission-driven organizations are not loving the new normal. As a free, relatively easy tool, it was used almost universally by nonprofits and all the organizations with whom we work. As of July, it is officially gone, replaced by GA4.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Simplified reporting: Most email automation tools include built-in reporting capabilities that allow you to easily generate reports on key metrics, such as email open rates, click-through rates, and overall campaign performance.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2017

5 Ideas for University Fundraising Campaigns at Year-End. but the research tells us that this popups can double conversion rates for email signups. You could experience eight times higher click-through rates for Facebook ads versus normal web ads. Your initial thought is probably, “oh no—those annoying things?”

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Send two versions of the same email—one with an emoji in the subject line and one without—and track the response rates to see which performs better. Emojis can have different meanings in various cultures, so ensure your choice is universally understood in the way you intend.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The minute you understand and act on this, your retention rates will rise. If you stop communicating with a donor in their last five years of life, or at minimum, the last two, the loss rate of their planned gifts goes to 50%. 1 Source: Center for Philanthropy, Indiana University and Bloomerang.co How lapsed is “lapsed”?

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APRIL 16, 2024

We have a couple of points of note around the transition from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to Universal Analytics (UA) and how that impacted the website data in Benchmarks this year, but first, for fun, an action item! This allows us to look at Giving Tuesday and Year End trends across participating organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Wiens is a senior fellow at The University of Pennsylvania, and the director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You may have a large universe of constituents who contribute to your association, for example, engaged non-members. And you might find retention rates increase. Find new individuals and organizations to expand the scope of your prospect base. Reimagine what you mean when you say “customers” and expand that definition. Get Started!

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Getting setup with a GA4 property that pulls in data has been a smooth process for us and remains as simple as it was with Universal Analytics. Where Universal Analytics only provided metrics such as time on site, bounce rate and pages per visit as standard engagement metrics, GA4 takes a more intelligent approach. Site search.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Nonprofits with a high donor retention rate have long-term supporters who come back year after year. Nonprofits with a low donor retention rate need to continually acquire new donors or larger gifts to keep up. One aspect of this survey is about average donor retention rates over the years. How to Calculate Donor Retention .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

While most university-bound students apply to their four-year school of choice with the intent of completing a program of study and attaining a degree, a community college student’s “why” is typically neither as clear nor as linear.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 12, 2022

Strengthening employee engagement can enhance morale, lower the turn-over rates, strengthen teamwork, preserve consistency and overall, cause success toward the nonprofit’s mission. Sabrina Esquivel is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MARCH 5, 2019

Current donors are a curated universe who have already demonstrated a belief in your organization’s mission, and willingness to take action toward it. Unfortunately, across the nonprofit sector, donor retention rates are low and getting worse. in 2017, slightly lower than the rates in 2014–2016. Track your retention rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Burnout rates were an issue in the nonprofit sector (why I wrote the Happy Healthy Nonprofit in 2016) but now they are skyrocketing. We are also facing a nonprofit workforce crisis with an increase of demand for services and people leaving their jobs due unrealistic workloads & toxic work environments that lead to burnout.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Image courtesy of James Madison University. Keeping this in mind that 51% of all emails were opened on mobile devices in 2013 while designing your newsletter template will increase interaction rates, open rates and click through rates. Not only that, but once its been sent, your newsletter is out of your control.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Even though higher rates of BIPOC staff report aspirations of being in leadership positions while also having similar qualifications as their white peers, there is still a racial gap in board and staff leadership. Recruiting staff from BIPOC peer networks and job boards, and historically black colleges and universities.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Personalization in the subject line will boost your open rate and tangible offers like ‘get 4 more kids to camp!’ Flattery and personalization go a long way to boosting open rates! . I didn’t go to the University of Wisconsin but if I had and I was a proud Badger I might open this. Alice, help get 4 more kids to camp!

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Delivering relevant content to your audiences, though, can significantly increase email click-through rates. *. 3) A university found their newsletter open rates increased by 7-12% when they personalized the first story within a newsletter to different audiences. Said another way – what works offline also works online.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In Part I , I covered rating choice “Level 1,” and how this signifies that an organization does not have a formalized prospect management system in place. Referring back to my previous blog in July , I am completing a series that outlines the various levels of prospect management we encounter with our clients.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Inspiring stories from institutions like USC Annenberg and the Queensland University of Technology regaled how Salesforce has helped transform operations. The Dreamforce 2022 education keynote simultaneously looked back at the recent successes of Salesforce in the education sector while looking forward to exciting innovations on the horizon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

You can test this online; simply search online for “color contrast checker” and input the colors you plan to use to see how they are rated. Abby Guido is a design expert at DonorPerfect and an educator at Temple University. This free Design Guide is full of practical, DIY design tips specifically for nonprofits. ? About the Author.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

To date, the email journey has exceeded nonprofit industry averages with a 32.56% open rate and 4.05% click-through rate. . Success Story: Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research. How Salesforce Helps Rainforest Alliance Innovate. Success Story: Helping Children Heal With Salesforce.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. Eighty schools responded, many of which had similar initiatives at their universities, and students from all corners of the country came together at Purdue.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Donor retention rate : the percentage of donors who gave to your organization last year and this year (Returning Donors in Year #2 ÷ All Donors in Year #1). Donor growth rate: the percentage increase in the total number of donors compared to the previous year. Total donors: the number of individuals who donated to your organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It also has one of the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness in the country. California State University, East Bay Supports Students Through the Pandemic. When COVID-19 hit the CSUEB campus, the university had to think quickly about how to support its most vulnerable students.

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