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. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation?

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

We dove into a number of industry benchmark reports to compile the following indicators that nonprofits should consider when planning for the year ahead. Not all points may apply to you, so we recommend that you to focus your evaluation on categories and elements that are most critical to your overall mission. Website metrics.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 26, 2025

Nonprofit email benchmarks are more than interesting data points. Theyre valuable tools for evaluating your organizations email campaigns! Comparing your own performance to industry benchmarks can help you identify areas to improve your email strategies. This metric is an important one! Its a versatile metric!

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Even many of the standard datasets we use today have been shown to have mislabeled data that can destabilize established ML benchmarks. In this blogpost, we outline dataset development bottlenecks confronting researchers and discuss the role of benchmarks and leaderboards in incentivizing researchers to address these challenges.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

If an organizational evaluation isn’t on your agenda, now is the time to revise your schedule. At.orgSource we call this new benchmark for performance Association 4.0, Robust Business Intelligence Systems : Use data systems to support decision-making and produce clear, multidimensional metrics to guide initiatives.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This data is a goldmine for organizations looking to: Evaluate the effectiveness of their training programs. Engagement Metrics Engagement data includes metrics like how often employees log in, interact with content, and participate in discussions or collaborative learning activities.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The key is to thoughtfully evaluate that footprint and weigh it against the potential benefits of deploying an AI solution. Is the impact significant enough to justify the emissions generated? By building this analysis into the decision-making process, organizations can make more informed choices about when and how to leverage AI responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Open rates , click-through rates , conversion rates , and other metrics measure the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts. Use benchmark data from past actions or other nonprofits to evaluate your campaigns, and then work to improve the metrics that matter most. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 5, 2025

Published on March 5, 2025 10:56 PM GMT In collaboration with Scale AI, we are releasing MASK (Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge) , a benchmark with over 1000 scenarios specifically designed to measure AI honesty. There is no large-scale AI honesty evaluation to date. An evaluation of harmless social lies (e.g.,

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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. The 2019 M+R Benchmarks Report observed that for certain nonprofit sectors the impact has been “dramatic,” and for health nonprofits, in particular, it appeared “nothing short of transformative.”.

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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. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Thats why weve created this comprehensive articleto guide you through the ins and outs of mobile giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

Stay focused : We all create goals and benchmarks and metrics. If you feel like you need a new jolt of energy to be inspiring others from the heart of your mission, then reconnect with those you are serving, listen to their stories, share their stories, and in the process you’ll be inspired, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A unifying vision The message, goals, and metrics that both define your top-line digital future and give you a means for tracking its progress. How your organization has communicated in the past should be evaluated against the changed environment we are working within today.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. 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. . . — Kevin Shulman for the Agitator-DonorVoice.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. You can divide the key metrics into offensive and defensive variables.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The algorithm, which was described in a pre-print paper published in September , achieved the highest ever scores on an image-captioning benchmark known as “nocaps.” The nocaps benchmark consists of more than 166,000 human-generated captions describing some 15,100 images taken from the Open Images Dataset. (You

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. But we explained that we can’t evaluate tech options like a new CRM without first knowing what they needed to accomplish with the technology. Would a data management plan like you suggest really improve those kinds of metrics?

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

For many natural language processing tasks, such as question-answering or translation, few-shot prompting performs competitively with benchmark approaches that train a model specific to each task. Human evaluation rated LLM summaries as more accurate than the benchmark, yet they scored lower on metrics like BLEU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to OpenView’s annual Financial & Operating Benchmarks report , only 13% of nearly 600 companies surveyed named “burning too much cash” as one of their top three concerns, compared to 30% last year. And which benchmarks can they use to evaluate their performance? ” OpenView Partners.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 20, 2023

A number of neural network–based solutions have been able to show good performance on benchmarks and also support the above criterion. However, other work has suggested that even linear models can outperform these transformer variants on time-series benchmarks. Left: MSE on the test set of a popular traffic forecasting benchmark.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this post, I point to several problems with the way we currently evaluate ANN indexes and suggest a new type of evaluation. Static workload benchmark is insufficient. Static workload benchmark is insufficient. A static workload benchmark. See the Qdrant benchmark and Timescale benchmark.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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DataRobot

APRIL 20, 2021

At DataRobot , we define the benchmark of AI maturity as AI you can trust. Accuracy is best evaluated through multiple tools and visualizations, alongside explainability features, and bias and fairness testing. Binary classification models are often optimized using an error metric called LogLoss. Download Now.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important? What Is Training Effectiveness?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important? What Is Training Effectiveness?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report is now available, just in time for #bbcon! It’s the largest and most comprehensive report of its kind, using data from nearly 800 Luminate Online customers to help you evaluate your overall strategies and performance in online fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As with our annual Benchmarks Study , our goal here is to report on the largest dataset we can in order to provide useful averages and overall trends. If we evaluate by last-click — counting only donations sourced from a click on a digital ad that landed directly on a donation page and resulted in a gift — revenue increased by 11% from 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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