Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As with the open rate, a good place to start with the click-through rate is to benchmark your email’s click-through rate against past fundraising emails. The donation page conversion rate The donation page conversation rate is the best metric to judge your email by as it represents the ultimate goal of a fundraising email—getting donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

” For example, @WomenforWomen : It’s also recommended that your nonprofit sign up for Twitter Blue for $2.99 (USD) a month. For example, if you send a tweet on Monday morning at 8 am, retweet that same tweet the next day at 1pm. The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Yet, while researchers have enabled robots to hike or jump over some obstacles , there is still no generally accepted benchmark that comprehensively measures robot agility or mobility. Overview of the Barkour benchmark’s obstacle course setup, which consists of weave poles, an A-frame, a broad jump, and pause tables.

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Types of Data Available in LMS Systems According to our 2024 Customer Education Benchmarks & Trends report —in which we commissioned Forrester to survey 300 education leaders at the director level or above—80% of high-success organizations consider “access to multiple types of data” important to running a successful customer education program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

If your nonprofit focuses on human rights or poverty, for example, then your tone of voice should be serious, smart, and thought-provoking. The overtouting of conversation as the ultimate metric of mobile and social media success has unfortunately been overdone.

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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. Check out the example below of the Michael J. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Step 5: Track and analyze data to improve over time.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2012

The 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study was just released and is packed with insightful data on advocacy and fundraising response rates across the nonprofit sector. For example, the median growth rate for nonprofit fan pages was an impressive 70%. Overall, email open rates held steady between 2010 and 2011.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). However, the benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used. To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 26, 2025

Nonprofit email benchmarks are more than interesting data points. Comparing your own performance to industry benchmarks can help you identify areas to improve your email strategies. These benchmarks are based on the performance of 37,472 individual email campaigns sent by Neon One clients in 2022. 6 min read Read Now 4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Coordinating these channels cohesively – for example, telling one community member’s personal story over email, social media, and direct mail – promotes consistent messaging that reinforces the nonprofit’s brand in the supporter’s mind. Define your metrics of success. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2012

[This is part one of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. You can download the complete report for free here.] incidentally, the mode was also 1.0 -- the most frequently reported number). now you have 0.25

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Tableau

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For example, through Mulesoft’s Connectivity Benchmark report we found that the average enterprise uses 991 applications. Through our new partnership with dbt, we are aiming to broaden the trust, extensibility, and value of Tableau by incorporating dbt models and metrics directly into the product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Yes, it is complex and confusing, but as a metric, it is helpful. In the early stages of building a company, churn gives you quick feedback, which other metrics seldom do. Then, we dive into churn benchmarks. For example, imagine you’re running a SaaS business with three customers: A, B and C. And how can it be negative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

If your nonprofit focuses on human rights or poverty, for example, then your tone of voice should be serious, smart, and thought-provoking. After your nonprofit has crafted a content strategy and created an editorial calendar (Chapter 7), the next step is to start thinking about the tone of voice of your content. Engagement.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Once again, you’ve amazed us! A: Of course!

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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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M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). But, our 2024 Benchmarks study also shows some clear opportunities for food banks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, we will explain why that happens, and whi h metrics to track to understand where you stand on the capital efficiency scale. The biggest mistake in measuring your capital efficiency Understanding where you stand as a business boils down to the metrics you use and how well you can interpret them. Let’s see what they are.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. But the Benchmarks Study is really meant to help you think (or rethink!) Let's take an easy example. Source Everything ! How's that work?

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For example, last year I shared an analysis of a project by Harvard and Google researchers that contained fundamental errors. Over the holidays, I used DataRobot to reproduce a few machine learning benchmarks. I found many examples of machine learning code that ran without errors but that were built using flawed data science practices.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

My point is that it CAN happen (In fact, I saw some examples today of non-profits achieving results like this), but a lot of non-profits shoot them selves in the foot by forgetting to do the basics of email marketing correctly. Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

There’s no magic metric in software startups (so don’t let anyone convince you there is). That said, it’s crucial to have a core KPI (key performance indicator) to benchmark your progress, and it’s typically ideal that such a metric be a revenue lever. Offer key financial metrics.

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DataRobot

APRIL 21, 2022

Leaderboards for popular benchmarks are full of examples of Red AI where improvements are often the result of scaling processing power. Schwarz et al have a comprehensive discussion on which of these metrics are the best, and I recommend their article on this topic.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Benchmarking Your Engagement Rate. Divided by the total number of impressions.

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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. Even when aware of the truth, they often choose to lie in many scenarios in our benchmark.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

It started in January, when prices jumped to $37,000 per metric ton from $10,000 a month earlier, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Then it got worse in February, with spot prices rising to $52,000 per metric ton before rising again to $62,000 in March. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is expecting demand to grow to 2.4

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Here’s what it would look like if you were on par with our benchmarks … If one of your participants sends 30 emails on the day of your contest they’d receive 7.5 For more Friends Asking Friends benchmarks, see Amy Braiterman’s post “ Averages, medians and modes … Oh my! ”.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

For example, they cannot answer a user's question about specific information displayed on a screen. Recent pre-trained LLMs, such as PaLM , have demonstrated abilities to adapt themselves to various downstream language tasks when being prompted with a handful of examples of the target task.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

QUESTION: When you gave an example of a data management plan, you started from a fundraising plan. For example, one initiative might be to re-engage lapsed donors, using three outbound communications over a three month period, one per month. Would a data management plan like you suggest really improve those kinds of metrics?

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 20, 2023

In retail use cases, for example, it has been observed that improving demand forecasting accuracy can meaningfully reduce inventory costs and increase revenue. A number of neural network–based solutions have been able to show good performance on benchmarks and also support the above criterion. The architecture is illustrated below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We also just started reporting on the metrics we already had available (web analytics, FB insights, email campaign stats) and are now moving towards more of a “digital content services&# model with metrics related to specific campaigns, etc.&#. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

” In practice as an example, that could mean understanding what percentage of data in the organization is encrypted. “I can tell you that it was an upfront discussion with my co-founders Mike (Admon) and Shay (Haluba) that we are putting it as a benchmark for ourselves to be a diverse company,” she said.

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