Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?" Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Design Engaging and Interactive Training Content An analysis outlined that “comprehensive training programs” see a 218% higher revenue per employee, along with a 24% higher profit margin. In a recent study, the Association for Talent Development revealed that 82% of organizations have reported a skills gap. billion in 2022.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Design Engaging and Interactive Training Content An analysis outlined that “comprehensive training programs” see a 218% higher revenue per employee, along with a 24% higher profit margin. In a recent study, the Association for Talent Development revealed that 82% of organizations have reported a skills gap. billion in 2022.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Design Engaging and Interactive Training Content An analysis outlined that “comprehensive training programs” see a 218% higher revenue per employee, along with a 24% higher profit margin. In a recent study, the Association for Talent Development revealed that 82% of organizations have reported a skills gap. billion in 2022.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The program should begin with a skill gap analysis and must set learning objectives in advance. Gap Analysis This step is essential as it helps to identify areas where the employees need improvement. This approach can provide employees with hands-on experience and help them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The program should begin with a skill gap analysis and must set learning objectives in advance. Gap Analysis This step is essential as it helps to identify areas where the employees need improvement. This approach can provide employees with hands-on experience and help them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The program should begin with a skill gap analysis and must set learning objectives in advance. Gap Analysis This step is essential as it helps to identify areas where the employees need improvement. This approach can provide employees with hands-on experience and help them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?" Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. 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. .

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Pamela Grow

MAY 2, 2024

However, the wide range of revenue sources and expenses your nonprofit may have can quickly complicate your data collection and analysis. It’s possible to solve this last problem by using a modified cash accounting system, in which you add additional sections to your spreadsheet to log assets, payables, and receivables. future growth.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. If so, it’s best to figure that out now and correct it before getting too far into the weeds of building any sophisticated data warehousing or reporting systems.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

These solutions are useful for referencing past donor interactions, personalizing donor outreach based on supporters’ preferences, and reporting fundraising progress. With Bloomerang , nonprofits can track and measure the metrics that matter most to them, including donor retention, major gift prospect numbers, and corporate giving totals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

The State of Marketing 2011 report recently released from IBM analyzes over 300 online and direct marketers across a wide range of industries, geographies, and company sizes. A key finding: Nearly 60 percent of respondents listed “ measurement, analysis, and learning &# as their top information technology bottleneck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Do you need annual reports, or will monthly reports suffice? Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Customized donor reports. Generate customized reports based on your nonprofit’s current donor engagement priorities. Save your most-used reports as templates to reuse in future data analysis. Website analytics tools enable you to track metrics such as time on page, bounce rates, and conversion rates for different pages.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

The well-intended “programs” that don’t work are nothing more than a relabeled annual job satisfaction survey that combines “agree and strongly agree” responses into a “% favorable metric” that looks good on the surface but hides problems. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Harter, Ph.D.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Nonprofits usually report retention as a percentage. Use Google Analytics to track metrics like unique visitors, pageviews, backlinks, and more to identify how to create compelling online content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

As they do so, more hospitals are deploying grantmaking programs that support nonprofit partners, tangibly demonstrate commitment to the community, and tackle entrenched problems facing vulnerable populations. A small number of coherent initiatives with a clear theory of change and metrics. Intelligently align mission and strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The well-intended “programs” that don’t work are nothing more than a relabeled annual job satisfaction survey that combines “agree and strongly agree” responses into a “% favorable metric” that looks good on the surface but hides problems. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Harter, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. We analyze the content that users spend the most time, referral traffic, and other key metrics over time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

These platforms are both automated and centralized, offering solutions to the most common problems associated with outdated data management tools. Reporting - With centralized information, developing reports that show the broad range of activities that your members are engaged in is simplified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue. "    He talked about different categories of metrics for the web: 1)   Types of visitors:   You have to get inside your customer's heads and what is important to them. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This section of the report covers new ways of thinking about organizational culture based in continuous improvement based on feedback. The report describes the indicators below as hallmarks of a culture of continuous improvement. In addition to periodic check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes goal-oriented performance metrics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. What is Business Intelligence?

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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. Board recruiting is hard,” said Tivoni Devor, author of “The face of nonprofit boards: a network problem,” published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 4, 2015.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Look first at your organizational metrics. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change. How do we move away from slacktivism?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS. The problem: Managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform. The problem: managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Once the hallmark of marketing professionals and financial analysts, data analysis has now infiltrated almost all aspects of our life from fitness trackers (got to make sure you get those steps in!) To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome? How might you measure it?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Identifying potential donors involves research and analysis that highlights individuals or entities that share the same values and interests as the organization. Communication can take various forms, including email newsletters, annual reports, and social media updates.

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