Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

By Dana Bakich , founder and CEO of Positive Equation – a digital consultancy focused on equipping nonprofits with the tools and resources to build impactful digital strategies. For the example below, we’ll be building out a sample Facebook Live co-branded series. Phase 1: Identify Your Audience, Partner(s) & Content.

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sgEngage

JUNE 21, 2024

These strengths make text messages especially well-suited for: Relationship-building efforts. The ease and fast pace of texting naturally encourage two-way communication, inviting students, prospects, and donors to engage in conversations that build relationships. Reminders, check-ins, and updates.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. Your nonprofit’s supporters may have a limited capacity to contribute or prefer to get involved in different ways. After all, with 4.9 Thank supporters often.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Solution : One way to combat this challenge is to build out a central repository using a modern ecosystem. 8: Your Organization Doesn’t Have KPIs and Metrics Challenge : Without key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics, your organization is missing out on vital information about your members. Set up your KPI and metrics!

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Last week, I sat down with Amy Peyrot, Senior Consultant, Social Media Specialist, and resident mathlete at M+R , to discuss all things social media metrics. Here are some of Amy's thoughts on these common social media metrics and how to achieve them. Goal: Engagement Metric: Overall Engagement Rate.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Short Answer : It’s not just you, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is completely different than Universal Analytics (UA). High-level Differences. All of the default Audience/Behavior/Acquisition/Attribution from UA are gone and there are very few default views in the “Reports” section in GA4 (but things change weekly).

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

For instance, create donor segments and study commonalities among your target audience to better target your item catalog to match their interests and price ranges. This data can also help guide the follow-up and stewardship processes, as you can quickly sort bidders by total contributions or other engagement metrics. Social media.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

If it does poorly, it can quickly pivot and put out something different to please their audience and boost their profits. This is a measurable number that could be adapted if the survey needed to be given in different formats. This will build buy in, and you will likely learn something essential to inform your goals.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 14, 2023

Prioritizing donor retention will ultimately build a dedicated pool of supporters who will lend support any time you need it. One way to cultivate positive donor relationships that increase retention is to choose fundraising ideas and donation methods that engage your audience. You can apply this model to almost any fundraiser.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission. Nonprofit marketing goals often focus around building recognition, fostering community, and increasing your funds raised.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

We’re proud to share that Forum One was recently honored as a 2024 Vega Awards winner of 11 awards in five different categories! These awards honored Forum One’s work in building websites, digital tools, and virtual experiences for our clients. The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With our guide, you’ll be well prepared to create a content strategy for your site, whether you’re migrating from a different CMS or starting from scratch. Determine your goals and audience. The first step to creating a nonprofit content strategy for WordPress is to determine your goal and your audience. Sponsorships page.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. Be sure to ask stakeholders in different departments. This may seem like a daunting task, but it’s easier than you think.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Hybrid events are a great way to connect with audiences in different mediums. Essentially, an event organizer is being asked to put on two events (one for a live audience and one for a remote audience). This takes some thought and consideration as the needs and expectations of each audience will be different.

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Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

Email Outreach Before your event begins, building excitement and driving participation is crucial to your success. One way to achieve this is by implementing an email strategy where you send a series of emails that educate and inspire your target audience and provide them with a clear call-to-action.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

However, you also know these cycles of boom and bust aren’t always efficient or effective at building a truly successful program—instead, retaining advocates year-round and between campaigns is what will help you build more power and make a deeper impact in alignment with your long-term vision and goals.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Want to build strategic, mission-aligned plans that drive fundraising success? These plans, which summarize research about your target audience and center around your top objectives, can serve as an excellent source of truth throughout the campaigns. You’ll need to set clear goals to build the rest of your marketing plan around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.”

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Understand your target audience Your small business likely doesn’t have the seemingly endless budgets and robust marketing departments that large corporations do. This means that you’ll need to be more economical with your efforts, choosing only the communication channels and tactics that truly resonate with your audience.

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Media Cause

JULY 11, 2023

Moreover, automating your email marketing translates to time saved, which can be strategically invested in other crucial areas like fundraising and community building. Moreover, automation ensures consistency in communication, which is vital for establishing credibility and staying connected with the audience.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

SMART goals are the foundation of your social media strategy and should be tied to building brand awareness, increasing engagement with your community, or raising more funds. Social media provides plenty of tools to help you create an effective strategy that can make a huge difference in your organization and help you meet the goals you set.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A product, whether in the for-profit, nonprofit, or government sector, is a powerful tool that delivers a valuable service to a specific audience. For nonprofits and government agencies, products serve the same purpose but with a different focus.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

However, our recent Status of Fundraising research found an interesting link between income performance and innovating and trying new or different kinds of fundraising activity – it was one of the main drivers of income growth. Focus on Your Metrics Metrics will help you translate your data into action.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Throughout the year, it’s important to conduct plenty of preparation, strategy development, and stewardship efforts to make sure your audience is eager to give when the big day arrives. Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Use these tactics to increase your chances of reaching supporters at the right time: 1) Promote using targeted audiences. Also, be sure to restrict your audience to countries where people can create Fundraisers for charities.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

And it’s no different for social media managers. Here are my takeaways for the new year: LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube have growing audiences, and those audiences are increasingly engaging with our content. I see what we’re doing is working and plan to build on that momentum this year.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The good news is that smart people are working to identify ways that newsrooms and individual journalists can stem the decline and build trust within their communities. One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics. How is declining trust affecting your industry or profession?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Cause marketing is a great way to build a relationship with a business to make your fundraising more sustainable. A cause marketing campaign provides your nonprofit with a wider audience, an increase in revenue, and wider awareness for both your cause and your nonprofit. Check out these tips for building a cause marketing campaign!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Are we actually making a difference? If you need a specific metric for your reports, ask outside software providers to build a tool that can give it to you. If you want to reach a broader social media audience, post about topics outside of your specific issue area. What are the right tools to help measure success?

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

For example, is there an issue with or aspect of your current branding that needs to be addressed to better connect with the hearts and minds of your audience? As such, part of the research process should include conducting a survey to understand how connected your audience feels to your nonprofit’s brand right now.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Is technology tying your audience in knots? From the beginning of her tenure at ENA, Nancy has made building a positive culture a priority. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?”

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Personalized and valuable communication is what builds relationships, and long-lasting donor relationships are what set the foundation for nonprofit growth. How does donor data help with retention rates and relationship building? After all, how you engage and talk to these supporters will differ. Email tools.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Social media is just one of several channels that you should be using to connect with constituents, build community, and mobilize people to work toward your goals. Why is Social Media Data Important?

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

That assumption was also backed by years of UCS’s email fundraising metrics consistently beating M+R benchmarks. If too little cultivation was a real problem, we’d have seen it show up in fundraising metrics, right? Well, in the last few years, email metrics did start to decline.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

As a rule of thumb, nonprofits should start preparing and building their year-end giving teams when students return to school for the fall semester, usually three to four months ahead of the campaign period. Build your case for support around individual stories and compelling examples of how your nonprofit is making an impact.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences. Building a personalization strategy: crawl, walk, run. Segment your audience on social media. our demographics and interest areas).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

They have to do all this while regularly drafting and submitting grant requests from funders who have different and changing priorities. Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. So what makes organizations successful at building evidence?

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