Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. Point a Compass to the Future Regular updates on the status of governance can be a compass to help the group stay on the right path. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 An annual survey is a good start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Picking A Social Media Measurement Pilot.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. So, rather than honing in on just a few individual practices as part of a limited-scope retention strategy, it’s ultimately more helpful to look at your organization’s broader talent strategy and how it is or isn’t helping to drive retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help busy fundraisers reduce time spent on administrative tasks, brainstorm new fundraising ideas, help with appeal writing, and more! This automated security measure has resulted in a 97% drop in card testing on Qgiv forms. Qgiv has also joined the Fundraising.AI

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to a benchmark study by Globalscape, the average cost of non-compliance was $14.82 Consequently, compliance teams grapple with the imperative of adapting to industry-specific regulations, fostering collaboration, and implementing measures to mitigate risks effectively.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to a benchmark study by Globalscape, the average cost of non-compliance was $14.82 Consequently, compliance teams grapple with the imperative of adapting to industry-specific regulations, fostering collaboration, and implementing measures to mitigate risks effectively.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to a benchmark study by Globalscape, the average cost of non-compliance was $14.82 Consequently, compliance teams grapple with the imperative of adapting to industry-specific regulations, fostering collaboration, and implementing measures to mitigate risks effectively.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks report , mobile message volume for nonprofits increased by 40% in 2023, indicating that this channel is here to stay. That’s because donors can send gifts as quickly as possible when they feel inspired to help. A free short code option to help reduce costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Benchmarking, forecasting, and determining how your organization fares with its supporters is difficult when there is a data gap. Discover how marketing continuity in these areas can help your nonprofit stay afloat during a societal shift, crisis, or financial downturn and stand out among the crowd. They are behind the curve.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

Learn more about how CauseVox can help you run a winning peer to peer fundraiser. Ability to set default content, design pages, and clone campaigns. One best practice when designing your giving page is to showcase the impact of each donation amount. Flexible metric counting for donations, activity, and impact. Recruit and Coach.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

A national panel of judges was engaged in reviewing all entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and overall impact. Compass is an app designed to support parents in their journey from pregnancy through postpartum by providing answers, resources, and compassion at every step.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Competency management helps identify and develop the skills that employees require to fulfill their jobs and achieve organizational goals. Competency is the measurable skills and abilities employees develop that help them complete their job successfully and contribute to the organization’s growth.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Competency management helps identify and develop the skills that employees require to fulfill their jobs and achieve organizational goals. Competency is the measurable skills and abilities employees develop that help them complete their job successfully and contribute to the organization’s growth.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Competency management helps identify and develop the skills that employees require to fulfill their jobs and achieve organizational goals. This helps in boosting employee engagement and reducing employee attrition. What Is Competency Management? Why Do You Need It?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. And while I’m usually able to offer some general guidance, nonprofit website design best practices have never been my area of expertise. What are the most important website metrics to measure?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

As a decision-maker, you may be tempted to cut costs and hunker down, but what if there was a recession-proof strategy that could help you weather the storm and set you up for success in the long run? This can help companies save on recruitment and onboarding costs during a recession.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

As a decision-maker, you may be tempted to cut costs and hunker down, but what if there was a recession-proof strategy that could help you weather the storm and set you up for success in the long run? This can help companies save on recruitment and onboarding costs during a recession.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

So, in that spirit, we’re providing a round-up of short readings, resources and tools that may help you as you consider different facets of the “social” element of ESG. Our D&I efforts empower us to better serve our increasingly diverse customers and help us create teams that leverage their differences in strategic ways for our business.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

As a decision-maker, you may be tempted to cut costs and hunker down, but what if there was a recession-proof strategy that could help you weather the storm and set you up for success in the long run? This can help companies save on recruitment and onboarding costs during a recession.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

No matter the type of event you’re planning, we’re here to help you and your donors spring into giving. For the Jane-A-Thon, Invest in Kids had benchmark prizes for fundraisers who hit their minimum fundraising goal. Each level came with designated promotions, acknowledgements, and a certain number of free registrations.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the process of building a fundraising strategy. Your fundraising strategy will build on your past successes and opportunities to help your organization grow year after year. Major gifts.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. It will help them participate in volunteer programs, sustainability initiatives, and other CSR activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

These individuals were selected to apply their unique perspectives into the judging process and help determine this year’s Social Innovation Winners. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you’ve just migrated from Blackbaud onto Salesforce, you’ve made the right choice, and we’re here to help ease your transition. Built to integrate, natively mobile, and endlessly adaptable, Salesforce is a platform designed to transform the way you work.

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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. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Notes and Resources.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Use these tips to outline a fundraising calendar that will allow your team to be efficient and helpful.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Poor Design. Four of the five email designs I looked at today we’re plain text – i.e. they didn’t even have basic design. The one tip I’ve got for you when it comes to email design is to make sure your outbound emails are designed to match your non-profits brand. Lacking Analytics. What am I missing?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While the look and feel of a new website is often top of mind and absolutely essential in making a resounding impression, there are also a number of non-design-related strategies that you need to take into account. The purpose is not only to affect and control change but also to help staff and stakeholders adapt to these changes.

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