sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, this is not a universal benchmark. Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget.

Develop

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Set performance benchmarks (e.g., Corporate Sponsorships and Partnerships Companies often look for ways to engage with the community and enhance their brand reputation, making corporate sponsorships a win-win for both parties. This model isn’t just for gyms or museums—it can work for advocacy groups, community organizations, and more.

Professional

CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s a day when donors, businesses, and communities come together to create positive change—and it’s also the perfect launchpad for your year-end fundraising efforts. With updated benchmarks, you’ll have a roadmap to guide your campaign and keep your team focused. Maybe it’s about hope, resilience, or community.

Campaign

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to the M+R Benchmarks report , fundraising mobile messages generate an average of $92 in revenue for every 1,000 messages sent. Print QR codes on flyers, postcards, letters, and other marketing collateral and distribute them in your community to reach a wider audience. How does mobile giving work?

Mobile

Allegiance Group

JANUARY 13, 2025

Here are a few of their success stories: Healthcare A leading nonprofit cancer research and treatment center : Delivered a return on ad spend (ROAS) nearly 4x the M+R benchmark through programmatic ads. Programmatic ROAS was more than 4x the benchmark, while social media ROAS grew by nearly 300% YoY.

Digital

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2025

Your notice of award communication is also a great place to provide links to support resources that will help grantees successfully meet their grant obligations. These resources might include reporting templates and examples, access to community support, or information on professional development opportunities.

Grant

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study found that December giving accounts for 26% of all online revenue for nonprofits, with the final week alone contributing 13% of total online donations. A year-end event brings your community together to celebrate the accomplishments their support made possible. Host a year-end event.

Volunteer

NVIDIA AI Blog

MAY 19, 2025

Azures ND GB200 v6 virtual machines built on a rack-scale architecture with up to 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs per rack and advanced liquid cooling deliver up to 35x more inference throughput compared with previous ND H100 v5 VMs accelerated by eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs , setting a new benchmark for AI workloads.

Integration

Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, if youre launching a year-round fundraising campaign, set clear benchmarks for securing champions, completing toolkits, and tracking participation levels. Set milestones to measure success. Break large goals into manageable milestones and track them against your timeline. Create a shared dashboard.

Calendar

Bloomerang

JULY 14, 2025

” This keeps the focus on the team’s strengths and efforts and reinforces that excellence—not outcome—is the benchmark. Normalize the uncertainty and focus on the long g ame – Help leadership understand that rejections are a normal part of grant seeking.

Proposal

Fast Company Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

As AI models begin to play a part in everything from hiring decisions to medical diagnoses, our narrow focus on benchmarks and accuracy rates is creating blind spots that could undermine the very outcomes we’re trying to achieve. But what we really need to assess is whether it makes for a trusted and capable business partner. accuracy!”

Measure

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

say something like, Join a community of climate game-changers to level up your environmental advocacy skills! Prioritize making your nonprofits website a valuable educational resource for your community. Rather than saying, Subscribe today! Follow the full instructions in Googles guide to the process.

Websites

Neon CRM

JULY 11, 2025

Nonprofit Hub Part learning center, part community hub, Nonprofit Hub offers free webinars, eBooks, podcasts, and how-to guides. Community Boost Digital marketing can feel like learning a foreign language, but Community Boost is like a friendly (and patient) translator. You’ve got this! See Neon One in Action! Choose a Tour!

Resource

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

VML paired them with people from the blind communities to collaborate, converse, and help get a sense of the challenges and barriers of generating image descriptions for alt text. Noodling around on their instruments , the songwriters have added lyrical alt text to several hundred images, with the hope of reaching a thousand as a benchmark.

Tennessee

NVIDIA AI Blog

MAY 13, 2025

Build and Test Reasoning Agents With Llama Nemotron Learn more about Llama Nemotron , which recently was at the top of industry benchmark leaderboards for advanced science, coding and math tasks. Join the community shaping the future of agentic, reasoning-powered AI.

FAQ

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2009, when I worked at Gaps newly formed digital division, the finance team set benchmarks for success in e-commerce. The Fast Company Impact Council is a private membership community of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. And the results mattered more than ever.

ROI

Neon CRM

JULY 10, 2025

Your donor may not have made a gift lately, but the fact that they’ve done so in the past is a good indicator that they’re personally invested in your nonprofit’s work and the community you serve. Tell them a story about a person who’s benefitted from your community’s generosity—show them the real-life outcomes of their generosity.

email

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The data speaks for itselfaccording to the M+R Benchmarks 2024 report : Of desktop users who made their way to a nonprofits main donation page, only 16% completed a gift. Include images that showcase your mission in action, such as a photo of volunteers working with community members. Nonprofits have a conversion problem.

Donation

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Download Your Fundraising Planning Guide and Calendar Template: Fundraising calendars are designed to outline donor correspondence, campaign timelines, special events , benchmark dates, and other noteworthy occurrences that your fundraising team will be engaged in over the course of the year.

Calendar

NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Stanford group benchmarked 30 foundation models, noting the field is moving so fast they did not review some new and prominent ones. These are issues were working on as a research community, said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning research at NVIDIA.

Foundation

Neon CRM

JUNE 26, 2025

In it you’ll find troves of data and recommendations covering nonprofit email benchmarks like send times, open and clickthrough rates, subject lines, and more! This comprehensive report surveyed 37,472 email campaigns sent by 1,495 Neon One clients, both large and small. In fact, the best fundraising goals are both. Choose a Tour!

Goal

Allegiance Group

JULY 23, 2025

This furthers your mission and allows you to make a greater impact on your community. MS Canada MS Canada aims to eliminate multiple sclerosis (MS) while connecting and empowering those in the MS community to create positive change in the meantime. RTC saw a 22.8% See the live website Take a peek! See the live website Take a peek!

Examples

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Data in the new Trends 2025 report, shows that donors are shifting from a donor-centric mindset to a community-centric one. Trends 2025 builds on previous national benchmark surveys of family foundations conducted by NCFP in 2015 and 2020.

Foundation

Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

Kristin is committed to strengthening the nonprofit community and serves on the Milton Murray Fund board, is a member of AFPs Research Council, and is a founding member of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. FEP 2024 Quarterly Benchmark Report. 1] Quarterly Fundraising Report. Accessed September 9, 2024. link] [2] Jacobs, Bill.

Map

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The data was included in the 2024 Digital Fundraising Benchmark Report for Hospitals. The locations were 39% from urban hospitals, 33% from suburban communities and 28% from rural communities.

Retention

Neon CRM

JUNE 18, 2025

They’re how you process donations, sell event registrations and memberships, capture information about volunteers and newsletter subscribers, and otherwise build your community. All of these details will make it much easier for people in your community to decide if they want to (or can!)

Online

Whole Whale

MAY 9, 2025

For more information and to see benchmark trends by organization or cohort, check out the full study dashboard below. This study helps you understand and explore spending trends in Grants, Fundraising, and Advertising among top Foundations and Fundraising Organizations in the US.

Foundation

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

But education is already largely the domain of states, which set curricula, establish academic standards, and determine teacher certification requirements as well as graduation and testing benchmarks for students. Its going to affect our kids, he said, but its going to affect all of our communities.

Education

Candid

APRIL 21, 2025

As chair of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) and director of community engagement at Neon One, I’ve had the opportunity to closely observe the evolving landscape of philanthropic giving. of all donors, according to FEPs latest quarterly report. Most concerning is the sharp 8.8%

Donor

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 24, 2025

Grow your DAF donor community At this very moment, only 17 percent of US adults know what a DAF is. That means you have an enormous opportunity with your community of supporters. Your DAF Day participation can equip your team with benchmark data so you can track DAF giving growth through year-end and set goals for 2026.

Nonprofit

Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Sustainability Audits : Our sustainability audit toolkit can assess the environmental impact of your existing AI solutions and digital products, using rigorous metrics and benchmarks to identify opportunities for improvement. We’re not just building digital products. The future of AI isn’t just intelligent. It’s sustainable.

Digital

Neon CRM

JULY 3, 2025

158% above the benchmark—and over five years, their cumulative giving reached $7,655.79, more than double the average donor. Check out these 12 self-guided tours and learn how Neon One’s tools empower nonprofits to connect with their communities, move their supporters to action, and simplify their operations. Choose a Tour!

Pledge

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

About 136 lobbyist registrations were filed with the secretary of state in the position of support, opposition, or monitoringa benchmark of the measures divisiveness. The bill, as youve heard, seeks to drive systemic change and to help us meet our greenhouse gas emission goals, state Rep.

Colorado

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, and JPMorgan Chase reported using Quantinuums processors to achieve a quantum algorithmic speedup in a benchmark called the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, which has potential applications in logistics, telecommunications, financial modeling, and materials science.

Companies

Candid

MARCH 3, 2025

Nonprofit Sector report , providing comprehensive data to establish a benchmark for equity efforts across the sector. One of Kalamazoo Community Foundations grantees shared how much they value this shift towards greater transparency. This data also enabled the development of The State of Diversity in the U.S.

Demographics

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The o1 model rose quickly to the top of the rankings in common benchmark tests, and soon Google DeepMind , Anthropic , DeepSeek and others were training their models for real-time reasoning. The model generates PhD-level answers to complex questions, landing it on top of performance benchmark rankings.

Companies

Bonterra

JULY 21, 2025

The firm has reinforced a culture of giving back through its contribution matching programs and continued promotion of volunteer opportunities, enabling employees to make meaningful contributions in the communities where they live and work. How are we making a difference in the communities?

Storytelling