Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2021

Donor Reports present a great opportunity to share organizational wins and losses throughout the year. Annual nonprofit reports are great for the big picture impact of the organization, however they only come once a year. These reports can be an efficient way to communicate transparency with supporters and show appreciation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are also research reports , events, fellowships, and bootcamps , and an annual AI4Good Global Summit. Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects.

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Google Challenge Report Impact 74

Qgiv

AUGUST 18, 2023

When launching the Sustainable Giving Report , Qgiv aimed to find solutions to many of the challenges fundraisers are facing. An area that the Sustainable Giving Report explored was the overall wellness of nonprofit teams. Over half of nonprofit respondents plan to remain in the fundraising profession.

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Team Report Giving Nonprofit 52

Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

We are also investing $500,000 to establish the Candid Innovation Fund, which will be deployed to test and validate major new ideas from staff for products, features, services, and markets over the next three years. The Candid Innovation Fund.

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Grant Open Report Product 120

NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. Source Report. What to do with? Traffic Sources, Overview + additional sub-sections).

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. Put the Bot to Work Remember the news story about the Bing chatbot and New York Times reporter Kevin Roose?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A key component of finishing the calendar year off strong is to ensure that you are reporting on what you’ve achieved and identifying where there is room to grow. As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way.

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Report Data Metrics Analysis 71

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.) Tip: Using the Giving Analysis for Appeals report in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a great first step to analyzing your historical data. Package codes will determine the segment and where in the A/B test they fall—see more in step three, below.

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Data Giving Work Test 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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Test Impact Experiment San Francisco 114

Media Cause

JUNE 30, 2022

When you pull a report in Excel or Google Sheets, it’s informative and just makes sense! This is the first blog in a series about creating Paid Media Reporting Dashboards. Strong and consistent naming conventions at the ad or creative level are the nuts and bolts of an informative and easy-to-use reporting dashboard.

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Report Build Media Channel 52

Nimble AMS

JANUARY 25, 2024

All apps go through a hardcore review and testing process before being added to the store. Nimble AMS is user friendly and offers our organization the ability to gather and report more data than ever before. The report capabilities of the system have been outstanding and incredibly useful to us.

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Associations Software Management System 119

M+R

JULY 27, 2023

Read time: 5 minutes Most nonprofits, even the smallest ones, include supporter cultivation in their messaging mix — the occasional thank-you email, an annual impact report, maybe a robocall at year end. So, when coming up with a cultivation content strategy for the test, we tried to reuse existing assets as much as possible.

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Fundraising Test Advocacy Metrics 52

Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not surprisingly, a 2020 report from Wild Apricot showed that 68% of organizations have difficulty growing membership. When it comes to judging what works, A/B testing – also called split testing or bucket testing – can help you compare the performance of two versions of content to see which one appeals more to viewers.

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Create Strategy Associations Registration 169

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

By Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and producer of the Global NGO Technology Report and the Global Trends in Giving Report. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 3) GiveTrack :: givetrack.org.

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Tools Online Fundraising United States 330

Candid

MAY 25, 2021

In this article from our 2020 annual report , Lisa Brooks talks about the impact Floyd’s death had on her personally and professionally. “It Externally, Candid responded by updating our funding for racial equality page and publishing a statement on racial justice on all of our websites. But I actually can’t.

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Professional Personal Test Minneapolis 52

EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Communication Practice Program Instruction 130

Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Track, Test, and Test Again The key to maximizing your return on investment is ensuring your campaign is set up for success on a foundational level. Installing pixels, and making sure the conversion actions you want are tracking are all vital to being able to report on success.

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Social Media Guide Media Social 97

Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

And don’t forget to test, test, test before launching. If the hundreds of existing visualizations do not deliver what an association needs, Acumen also has a module that allows for the development of completely customized reports as well. Recruiting and hiring can add weeks or months to the schedule.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Every year, nonprofit consultants M+R release their annual Benchmarks report , which provides an overview of digital trends in the sector. This year's report addressed issues such as email list growth and churn, the rise of monthly giving, and the impact of social media's peer-to-peer fundraising for nonprofits.

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Benchmark Digital Report Learning 81

Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

This is not a hypothetical concern, one user reported trying the chatbot and stated, “[The chatbot] gave links and resources that were completely unrelated” to her questions. Second, chatbots and other AI technologies need to be carefully designed and tested for human interaction and bias to mitigate risks.

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Literacy Advice Test Training 138

EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

Review your data tables, queries, reports, and exports. Create a list of all queries, reports, exports, and dashboards that your organization uses so that they can be created in the new system as appropriate. Establish an ongoing plan to keep your data clean and ready to put to work for your organization.

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Software Tips Phase Policy 226

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. These professionals came to talk about standardizing the reporting process – about integrating social media results into the traditional reporting procedure. If that’s your goal, then demonstrate in your reporting how Facebook helped you achieve it.

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Report Social Social Media DC 96

Achieve

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This year, as an important resource and add-on to the 2014 Millennial Impact Report, we’ve worked with Millennial employees across the country to conduct video-recording user tests. But here are some things we’ve learned from these user tests: Millennial employees were drawn to good design, but frustrated by lack of information.

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Test Video Learning Companies 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

29: International Day Against Nuclear Tests — #AgainstNuclearTestsDay. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay. September.

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Calendar Awareness Causes Giving 363

Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. It’s clear to us from this year’s report, that digital engagement has taken some important leaps forward for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. This is where EveryAction comes in! per dollar in online revenue.

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Benchmark Digital Trend Report 62

VisionLink

MARCH 3, 2020

While the CDC focuses on policy and testing certifications, and as local hospitals prepare, local communities and their public health officials need access to accurate, daily information about the numbers of residents concerned about the virus, those you are symptomatic, and those who are in self-imposed or officially mandated quarantines.

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Disaster Local Policy Test 130

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 5, 2022

Reports and Dashboards . Reporting on the statistics that are important to your organization just got easier. Create Reports Based on Selected Salesforce Objects. Please note that with any new enhancement, it’s best practice to test the new features in a sandbox environment first.?Each Flow Updates .

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Module Report Org Phase 97

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. In the first part of this series , we talked about why you should test your website and donation form with real supporters. Makes sense, no? Some tips for creating tasks….

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Test Design Donation Language 38

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. We include them in your reports and you can use them in your CRM. Test with a couple of links to see how it all works. Last but not least: test and learn from it. We’ll get to that next.

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Donor Track Campaign Facebook 294

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A true fund accounting system simplifies restricted funds, making it easier to track and report on government grants, endowments, and specific donor requests. Can you walk me through the process for building a report and a dashboard? See that you can get information quickly and set up reports that give you information you can use.

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Fund Question System Integration 81

Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

The Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic released the fifth-annual Charitable Giving Report at the beginning of the year. This report leverages The Blackbaud Index to provide one of the most credible resources on fundraising performance in the social good community. If you haven’t read the report yet, no worries!

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Knowledge Test Trend Giving 28

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . Do more testing. Testing is a way to move from opinion to knowledge.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible. Isn’t it more of a success if potential solutions can be tested and co-created with stakeholders to deliver the greatest benefit?

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Collaboration Impact Test Grant 70

Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Drafting and testing. Writing multiple drafts for A/B testing on social media. Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? AI can help in quickly drafting responses. Optimizing reach. Generating variations on hashtags and keyword searches.

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Social Media Images Video Media 80

Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2023

Try some tests: EXAMPLE: International Rescue Committee tested calls to donors giving $100 to $149, dividing them into three groups: The first, the control group, received no call. Alas, I left the organization before the test was completed.) Think about what you could test. Good to call: Mid-level, ongoing donors.

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Donor Charity Gift Test 92

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

With Nimble AMS you can build a report and dashboard through point – and – click actions , within a matter of minutes. We’re so used to being able to create reports, objects, fields, and more with just clicks and zero development effort, that sometimes we take the ease of use with Nimble AMS for granted. Salesforce sandbox.

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Associations Adobe Software Widget 118

Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

software, business intelligence, data storage, financial reporting) to ensure they can operate smoothly. Avoid assumptions—test iteratively A saying I’ve always lived by is, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” We also leaned on teams across Candid to refine and test these procedures.

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Culture Build Policy Nonprofit 106