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And Giving Tuesday results have increased dramatically each year, both in donations and in participation. Giving Tuesday results have increased from $117 million in 2015 to over $168 million in 2016 – a 43% increase! MORE
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Online fundraising isn’t a fad. As a matter of fact, online fundraising accounts for seven-percent of total fundraising and has seen double-digit growth over the past four years. Online fundraising has also proven to be an extremely effective donors acquisition vehicle. MORE
Online fundraising isn’t a fad. As a matter of fact, online fundraising accounted for seven-percent of total fundraising in 2016. Online fundraising has also proven to be an extremely effective donors acquisition vehicle. MORE
Fitness Australia, an association based in Sydney, is an organization that has taken the principles we laid out in Humanize and is now showing amazing results in their revenue growth, employee engagement and retention, and other success metrics. And the results were… . MORE
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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. MORE
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Unfortunately, as Beth has pointed out , Facebook doesn’t always make it easy to generate meaningful and measurable results that drive your mission or your bottom line. Measurable, Meaningful Results. Note from Beth: Greetings from the Gold Coast in Australia. MORE
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They keep a finger on the pulse of what is happening around their organizations, and they are increasingly responsible for connecting data to better understand results. Be honest about all results, good and bad. Communicate your results. MORE
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Did you know that people between the ages of forty-nine and sixty-seven contribute 43 percent of the total dollars given to nonprofits in America [ study ]? That’s right. One group of people, those known as the “ Baby Boomers ”, gives almost half of all dollars donated. That one bit of information alone should make you stop, think about your donor base, and start asking questions. especially if you’ve got a hunch that many of your donors are Baby Boomers). MORE
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Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Arts and Social Media. MORE
And yet another reason why your nonprofit can not ignore Google+… the Google Knowledge Graph which now prominently features information about nonprofit organizations on the right-hand side of Google Search results. MORE
The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Who or what are you going to compare your results to? The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. MORE
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Employees are much more excited by statements like “Our corporation provided funding that resulted in 100 third-graders improving their reading achievement by two grade levels in 2015” rather than “We gave $200,000 to our local public school system.” MORE
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Meet regularly: Reinforce with regularly scheduled meetings (weekly at Southlake) where the report data/results is used as a tool for performance metrics. MORE
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