Candid

APRIL 23, 2024

In my last article , I examined some of the key findings from the latest CF Insights survey , conducted annually by the Council on Foundations to track trends in community foundation activity and growth. DAFs represented 32% of all assets held by the more than 220 community foundations in the 2022 survey — $38 billion in over 50,000 accounts.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Read time: 4 minutes Are you done running reports for your 2023 year-end fundraising? Email fundraising has become increasingly difficult, but many of the organizations in our sample of 24 nonprofits saw strong results this December. Good, it’s time to start planning for 2024 year-end fundraising!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 10, 2022

A study conducted by Edelman and Linkedin reported 65% of those surveyed said thought leadership content improved their perception of an organization. As a result of your thought leadership efforts, you’ll see an increase in member engagement and retention. Also, consider contributing to guest blogs in your industry. .

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

“Survey says!” The premise of the game, as you may recall, was a competition between the members of two families to see which family could more quickly and accurately guess the results of survey questions. by both the contestants and the survey respondents. by both the contestants and the survey respondents.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I quickly became responsible for identifying potential funding opportunities, grant-writing, stewardship efforts, and reporting to funders. I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs).

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Utah Project Lesson Fundraising 105

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2010

Nancy Schwartz, president of Nancy Schwartz & Company and blogger at Getting Attention , has just finished analyzing data from a nonprofit marketing survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders, revealing that they are doing a poor job connecting with their audience and community. We don’t move our base to action.”. “We Too much jargon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Often overwhelmed.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2009

GuideStar , an organization that gathers and publishes data on charitable organizations, recently conducted a survey looking to measure impact of the economic downturn on nonprofits. Another reported, “The only reason we are still solvent is that we had a financial crisis and could no longer pay our utility bill.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. After the Giving Day: Follow-up and Report. Blackbaud: # GivingTuesday Trends Report (PDF). 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. Consider a.ngo domain for your landing page, microsite, or third-party redirect. are still available.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. We had some requests for more detailed survey results, so here they are! A Few Caveats Keep in mind, this was not a very scientific survey. The sample size is. sample of organizations. September, 2011. A majority of.

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Library Survey Sample Nonprofit 61

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

A recent Salesforce survey found that more than a quarter of respondents are using AI tools at work, more than half of whom are using AI that is not approved by their organizations, including in the social sector. We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help. This article will dissect the different types of nonprofit sector reports you may come across in your own research. No matter what type of report you may end up utilizing for your own work, it is important to ask a few assessment questions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2013

Take the short survey. Take the short survey ). They’ve been producing a similar report for the business world for the past four-years. In order to produce this research and report our finding back to you we need to study the content marketing practices of nonprofit organizations. We’re not sure, but we want to find out!

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I quickly became responsible for identifying potential funding opportunities, grant-writing, stewardship efforts, and reporting to funders. I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs).

Utah 52

Utah Project Lesson Time 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2014

Take the short survey. This year we’ll be producing the second edition of the annual report – Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends ! In order to get it done … we need your help – Take the short survey. They’ve been producing a similar report for the business world for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Helping an existing participant achieve greater results is easier than finding new participants and turning them into superstars. Instead, deliver a message that tells them how easy it is to get started ( 1 in 4 emails you send will usually results in a donation ). And for good reason. It’s also more cost effective.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One hot take: We did an informal survey of several groups, and while we found that most are not yet using peer-to-peer texting to reach their mid-level donors, the handful of organizations who are doing so are getting GREAT results. Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . . Analyzing the results.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2014

Take the short survey. This year we’ll be producing the second edition of the annual report – Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends ! In order to get it done … we need your help – Take the short survey. They’ve been producing a similar report for the business world for years.

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Survey Benchmark Content Marketing 39

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. Over the period of the pandemic, the Merkle “ 2021 Loyalty Barometer Report ” showed four trends in consumer thoughts on rewards and benefits. . Earning trust is work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Using data from three surveys conducted in the U.S. — Giving and volunteering in the United States: Findings from a national survey.

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United States Survey Dominican Republic Volunteer 71

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Rigor is always important when building and using evidence — but rigor does not only mean using quantitative data or producing a result that can be assessed for statistical significance. It was more effective and equally appropriate to right-size an assessment with a survey from a statistically significant number of respondents.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. These challenging questions were addressed by the 2010 Arizona Health Survey sponsored by the St. Over 8,000 adults were surveyed about their physical, mental and social well-being. Fortunately, over 2,000 adults over 65 years old responded to the survey.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Giving USA 2021 , produced by Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , reports total giving grew 5.1% Here are a few 2021 key findings from the report to help us retain and upgrade nonprofit donors: . Per the FEP’s report, in 2020: The overall number of donors grew by 7.3%.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We are seeing more research reports based on convenience samples (i.e., Executive Director. ASU Lodestar Center. Like this article?

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Arizona United States Philanthropy Sample 90

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

For example, a representative from the fundraising department can make sure you consider when your funders’ reporting cycles are so that you are producing outcome measurement results at a time that aligns with their requests for information about your programs. concerns, suggestions, strengths, etc.).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

" A quick Google search on "data" brings up more than 5 billion results, and a search for "data" on TechSoup's website shows a total of 4,303 results. Also, look to the NTEN Benchmarks X Study and, of course, GrantStation's free State of Grantseeking™ Reports. We want you to be able to.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2015

Take the short survey. This year we’ll be producing the third edition of the annual report — Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends ! And we need your help— Will you take the short survey? They’ve been producing a similar report for the business world for years. That’s where you come in.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

Ushering out those dog days of summer is some exciting news from around the sector; from acquisitions and survey results to emerging leaders, there is no shortage of fresh perspectives this week. Not surprisingly, one of the highest reported challenges facing nonprofits is harnessing the potential of social media marketing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. The whole point of the post was to crow about how positive the open source results were. The whole point of the post was to crow about how positive the open source results were. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

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NTEN Data Metrics Sample 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan. And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs."

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 26, 2015

Earlier this month, The Nonprofit Times (NPT) published the results of its online engagement survey. Despite the benefits of an OES like Salsa, most nonprofits (56 percent of those surveyed) rely solely on traditional email blast systems (Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc.) The result? So why are these findings troubling?

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ROI Software email Marketing 28

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 26, 2015

Earlier this month, The Nonprofit Times (NPT) published the results of its online engagement survey. Despite the benefits of an OES like Salsa, most nonprofits (56 percent of those surveyed) rely solely on traditional email blast systems (Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc.) The result? So why are these findings troubling?

ROI 28

ROI email Software Marketing 28