Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. Tracking for Impact and Learning. Metrics for Movements.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Convey the mission as urgently needed and highly solvable to inspire hope and action.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Empower prospects to see your mission in action and understand exactly how your organization operates and creates the most significant impact possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Luckily, there are some simple actions you can take to boost your nonprofit’s revenue without planning extra fundraisers or dramatically changing your approach. In this article, we’ll discuss the following six concrete steps your nonprofit can take to boost revenue and grow your organization: Track your organization’s retention rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. These included website traffic, donations, email list size, and moving people to action (advocacy actions). Who’s seeing success with their Facebook page?

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Most segmentation efforts are based upon three key factors: Demographics and Lifestyle – these are observable and traceable metrics such as location, age, region, marital status, etc. Behavior – again, this is observable and traceable, and is based upon prior actions and not intentions or preferences. First, Create a Plan.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. Keep an eye on your campaign progress as soon as you open the app with the dashboard.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

What’s an action you need to take to achieve your goal? Who on your team will be responsible for taking this action? When do they need to take this action? Another way to track organic page performance is to look at pages by clicks by navigating to Search Analytics in Google Search Console.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. Gift range chart. Measure all fundraising metrics. Be transparent with your actions, and let donors in on: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

One-Click Advocacy: What is the call to action online? Learning and Metrics. Next up was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who gave a fantastic presentation on what metrics Momsrising uses to track their progress – not only KPIs but some of the countring metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Transform your vision into actionable steps and watch your organization thrive. It’s what keeps an organization on track, pointing in the right direction while dodging pitfalls and making smart decisions about where to focus efforts and resources. Think of planning as the non-profit world’s Swiss Army knife.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Garcia is an executive board member of the Arizona Children's Action Alliance.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. This could include noting different points of data exploration, such as filtering data views or comparing specific charts.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Survey: The purpose of the survey is to get as much actionable information from the donor to target future solicitations better than the competition. Key metrics to explore: . We developed the following chart to help our organization track and evaluate the donor kits’ impact on giving: .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

Metrics around the success of the year-end campaign work as great marketing material. Assessing and communicating results helps internal staff members stay on track. And, it helps your team stay on track when creating the report. Provide an opportunity for action The best nonprofit digital reports inspire readers to take action.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Finding the right grants to apply to Look through well-established grant databases, set up Google alerts, check out company foundations, and network with other nonprofits to keep track of available grants that align with your mission and find one that will fit your program needs. Pick a few key ways the funders can evaluate your program.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

Metrics around the success of the year-end campaign work as great marketing material. Assessing and communicating results helps internal staff members stay on track. And, it helps your team stay on track when creating the report. Provide an opportunity for action The best nonprofit digital reports inspire readers to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Sometimes we think that because we’ve purchased a fancy software package, that it will give us actionable information with just one click.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Assign relevant metrics to each goal. For example, you might track donation page conversions, homepage bounce rate, or overall website traffic. Check in on these metrics regularly as you carry out your strategy. . Interactive charts. Decrease bounce rate by 50% for important pages like your homepage or donation page. .

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DipJar

JUNE 8, 2021

By generating accurate predictions about the actions that donors are likely to take, AI can shape your fundraising strategies down to the individual level. AI for fundraising works by identifying deep patterns in your historical engagement and fundraising data and then training predictive models to chart likely outcomes in the future.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

Do you remember the chart your teacher had on the bulletin board or hanging right off the front of his/her desk? Like the spelling test stars, I had students track their daily speed math achievements whenever they got a perfect score as an added layer to help make doing math quickly, fun. Foursquare is a location based check-in system.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign. How many by when? Guides, not report cards.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. They created a data warehouse that tracked not only student progress in school, but progress from cradle to career. Everybody on staff is tracking and using metrics in their work.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . Workgroup, action group. And then when we meet every other month or three times a year, we’re going to look at that list, and we’re kind of going to take some action on some things.” Here are the metrics. They all know they’re being tracked.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some Basic 101 Resources and Metrics ROI = What you spent divided by what you got out of your investment.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Because this information is publically available, supporters can use your nonprofit’s annual Form 990 to track your financial transparency. They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Create visuals to feature important metrics and information. Follow a prepared script.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Once your books and chart of accounts are set up properly, you’re ready to analyze key metrics to help drive outcomes. Using this metric, you can determine your most successful events, fundraising channels, and donor types. For example: Program Efficiency. How can you calculate this?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Here are the 7 Things You Need to Know About 2013 Online Donors from Gail Perry, with action steps you must take to ensure your site is armed and ready for the online giving season, and every season in between. Being liked isn’t everything, especially if those likes don’t translate into further action. Checklists.

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