Robert Weiner

JUNE 3, 2010

Yesterday I spoke on a fundraising panel at Compasspoint's Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Forum and mentioned a variety of resources. My own resources page: [link] It includes links to articles like: Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: The Results of a Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I just finished my session on ROI as part of the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology. But the real learning came from a couple of ROI cliff hangers. Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2017

My recent paper, Remarkably Outstanding Implementation: The Foundation for Positive ROI with Target Analytics , is now available. As I prepared and wrote this paper, several thoughts occurred to me about the importance of measuring ROI for nonprofit analytics projects that I thought I would highlight for you in this post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2019

Social media is in a constant state of change and without regular education in emerging trends, your nonprofit could be wasting valuable time and resources implementing outdated best practices. The results will be released in the 4th edition of the Global NGO Technology Report on September 16, 2019.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There are three “results” categories producing data points that can be measured. Inputs : The resources—financial and non-financial, human, and material—used to conduct an activity. Outputs : The products, goods, or services which result from an activity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We update Nimble AMS three times a year to offer constant staff innovation, create amazing member experiences, and drive ROI at your association. Here are some highlights from the Nimble AMS Spring ‘23 release. Leverage this new feature in Salesforce Einstein to get results about your work behavior. Einstein Search.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

The end results are more efficient fundraising, more revenue, and more time for what matters. Altogether, these benefits mean healthier fundraising ROIs, efficient campaign planning, and more time for building donor relationships. . Does an AI-driven approach result in more or less revenue than a more manual approach?

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Ask an AI tool to help make your writing more succinct or engaging and see what the results are. (It AI is an impact multiplier for mission-driven organizations since nearly all already do a lot without enough resources. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand. Copyediting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. She points out that deep engagement is what leads to these results, but also offers 3 different engagement strategies that can be scaled to capacity. Tags: ROI.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

From the donor’s perspective, their “purchase” of investment in a nonprofit’s work results in the gratification of being a part of the solution to a societal problem. This will also help ensure that your nonprofit continues to get resourced. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How to Improve Your Conversion Rate If your organization is experiencing high engagement, yet low conversions, there are several easy ways you can improve your results. Social Media Return on Investment Measuring your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) is essential for any marketing or fundraising initiative.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Without capable resources, this could be a high-maintenance project, and a costly long-term option. And even then, there’s no guarantee that third-party solutions would be fully compatible with your point solution, resulting in paying for and maintaining multiple solutions.

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Kindful

JULY 8, 2021

To get better at understanding the trust cost of an event, you need to evaluate the event’s return on investment (ROI). . A simple formula to evaluate your event ROI is: . Some of the ways grants can drain an organization’s resources include: Not paying for administrative costs like salaries, rent, etc. .

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Show leadership how better reporting and business intelligence can give them more clarity into revenue, including reporting on which programs helped drive revenue and which aren’t yielding results. Step 2: Discuss the difference between ROI and TCO. The ROI belongs in the first meeting. Clarify the risks of doing nothing.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2010

A couple of years ago I put together the "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. link] or [link] if you want to tweet it. (Ha! The irony).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. We’d love for you to have a look at our results and join the discussion. The question.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) arrived at similar results. Because the anticipated ROI at this point is modest, smart awareness-building strategies are broad brush and relatively inexpensive. Again, the anticipated ROI at this point is modest so the selected strategy should be equally modest.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

These benefits include saved time, money, and resources. In VolunteerHub, reports can be generated quickly and used to evaluate volunteer trends, activity, preferences, and ROI. Return on Investment (ROI). When used strategically, your volunteer management solution should provide a return on investment (ROI).

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If email or mail appeals are a part of your GivingTuesday strategy, segmenting your audience could make a big difference for return on investment (ROI.) Track and analyze your results. How many people will your organization provide ‘x’ resource with ‘y’ dollar amount? Segment your audience. Get in touch here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. How can we most efficiently allocate our resources to maximize our social media’s effect? By Sacha Evans. Simply Measured.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. LinkedIn is a powerhouse in ROI. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2011

LinkedIn Groups can be very high in ROI as long as you’re patient and willing to invest at least an hour a week promoting and monitoring your LinkedIn Group. Unfortunately, many nonprofits have created LinkedIn Groups over the last few years and when results were not immediate, they abandoned their Group much too soon.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2017

Lower cost; higher ROI. Instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars per year for a dedicated administrative staff, you can automate many repetitive tasks and allocate resources to new initiatives. This 360 degree reporting also means that you can be more transparent with your donors and leadership.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. At CauseVox , we believe that the best way to grow your resources is to understand what has worked (and hasn’t worked) in the past. See this article for more tips on calculating your ROI. Highlight the fundraisers you expect to bring in similar results.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

This results in feeling like you’re drinking from a firehose. Attach an anticipated ROI to each one (e.g. Little things that don’t result in much ROI can eat up a lot of time. What would make it possible for you to do your priority tasks more effectively, resulting in greater revenue for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

Finding the ROI. One reason for the disconnect between stated belief in video and video budgets has been the lack of hard data about the return on investment (ROI). It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. Video is cool, but it is also expensive (in time and money).

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Givinga

DECEMBER 18, 2018

New records were set in ROI, donor advised funds (DAFs) and other areas as corporations addressed the rising importance of philanthropy in engaging employees, attracting talent, and building brands. More Companies Will Track Giving ROI. In the past, corporate giving initiatives were both resource and time intensive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Beyond the power and promise, nonprofit technology needs to produce results that can be quantified and that’s becoming harder to do in respect to social media. That’s a wasted use of time and resources and that’s how many nonprofits are feeling these days about Facebook. But ROI is minimal in the traditional sense.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. We track ROI by looking at a couple of different factors – first we see how much revenue is generated from sites like Facebook Causes, Crowdrise , Social Vibe , etc. I know resources are always a struggle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

And the end result of using the standardization tools to intensively control computer usage results, most often, in IT working just as hard or harder to manage the exceptions to the rules (like Beth’s 72, above) than they would dealing with the tasks that the automation simplifies in the first place. Tags: guest blogging ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. What are the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. You cannot rely on being ???given

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to do more with fewer resources, prompting us to look at our internal fundraising operations to see how to become more efficient with the resources we have. However, committing to fixing it can have lasting results. Additional Resources. Set a realistic timeline given your workload.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Adjust your digital marketing strategy according to these responses to make clients feel valued and drive better results. Then, link back to these resources across your other marketing channels. The higher your business ranks in the search results, the more likely people are to visit your website and invest in your services.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

CauseVox helped Andrea run their Duradash fundraiser with ease, and accessed our library of free webinars and resources to help plan her campaign and generate fundraising ideas. Learn more about how you can use CauseVox for your fundraising event and get similar results! The Toolkit.

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