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. There were a lot of conversations around the right metrics to track, which gave us a say in how to measure our results. This was crucial at the time. Marketing overhauled how the organization viewed them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I was curious about what I could learn if I did an informal benchmark study of a few nonprofit Pinterest users. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. Have you benchmarked this data against other similar types of nonprofits?

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the past year, you and your team devoted time and resources to optimize your digital platforms, social media and email marketing to support your organization’s goals and overall mission. Website metrics. Email metrics. Social Media metrics. Fundraising metrics. So the big question is: how did you do?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

2) A medical foundation exceeded their fundraising goals and averaged over $1,000 per gift when they personalized their email appeal by: Thanking people for last year’s gift (in the headline and first paragraph). MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008.

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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

A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters. Define your metrics of success. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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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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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that exhibit robust and dynamic locomotion capabilities, similar to animals or humans, has been a long-standing goal in the robotics community.

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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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Care2

APRIL 6, 2010

If your nonprofit is not developing yearly benchmarks for its fundraising program, website visits, email and e-newsletter open and click-through rates, start now. Establishing benchmarks helps organizations better leverage supporters, engage activists and keep websites dynamic with compelling content that drives people to take action.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Gifts from prospects on the top of your giving pyramid are necessary to meet your campaign goal. Review reporting. Add data health tools.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Suddenly, digital transformation wasn’t just an aspirational goal; it was a mission-critical investment. Did you complete all your ambitious digitalization goals? Your strategy should align with your overall goals, cater to your audience, and focus on the outcomes you’re aiming for. And they needed to do it right away.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Align learning initiatives with broader business goals. Engagement Metrics Engagement data includes metrics like how often employees log in, interact with content, and participate in discussions or collaborative learning activities. Identify areas where employees may need additional support.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

At.orgSource we call this new benchmark for performance Association 4.0, These characteristics support fulfilling your constituents’ needs: Focus —A clear understanding of your purpose, vision, goals, and objectives. or the ability to keep pace with the 4 th Industrial Revolution.

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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 asking how we can make AI faster or more powerful.

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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.]

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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Some of the posts shared some great case studies, insights, and tips about each step of the process: Set Goals. Set Goals by Katie Eickhoff, Social Media Manager/Senior Media Analyst for CARMA International talks that critical first step of the process – goal setting. Pick Metrics. Want Useful Analytics?

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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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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some people love setting goals. The thing I love about it is that I know I’m getting closer to my goals even when I don’t achieve them. Today I want to talk about the goals you have for your nonprofit, specifically your goals around acquisition. And isn’t that the, dare I say it, goal? .

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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. Your goal is to stop the scroll and get them to click. Link clicks.

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Tableau

JUNE 3, 2021

Data leadership committees are particularly adept at accomplishing these five goals: . Focusing the business on a short list of data-driven metrics. . This can lead to internal debates about definitions and different versions of similar metrics. Identify high-value business goals. Agree on metrics to measure progress.

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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. Are you meeting your goals? Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Weve broken the process down into five basic steps: Step 1: Examine your existing fundraising.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2007

This slide came from a presentation by Rashimi Sinha that I stumbled upon and is focused on a different topic, but I pulled out this slide for "Popularity Metrics." Metrics help us -- if we let them -- to keep a balance on what else we might look at to be curious about. It's like measuring 'friendship'.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the holidays, I used DataRobot to reproduce a few machine learning benchmarks. In the section about tabular datasets, the authors use the Blue Book for Bulldozers problem, the goal of which is to predict the sale price for heavy equipment at auction. The SARCOS dataset is a widely used benchmark dataset in machine learning.

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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). " I hope she will unpack that a bit more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I'm just one person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Make Time for Reflection.

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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. Ask, how much progress are we making towards our goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 1: Define your goal(s). How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. Step 4: Define your benchmarks. Step 5: Define your metrics. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi.

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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 8, 2011

If Zoos and Aquariums had a benchmarking process or what I starting to call “ bench learning &# where there is a dashboard of peer metrics to review and discuss with peers, they might discover a wealth of insights. The goal is share with peers to get a better understanding of where they are as an industry on Twitter.

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised a $46 million Series B. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets?

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