Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. Why Reporting Matters to Board Members. How to Best Illustrate ROI. About the Sponsor.

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ROI Demonstration Nonprofit Metrics 342

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. See3, YouTube and Edelman have released a new report and guide for nonprofits about using video. The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me).

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Benchmark Video Practice Nonprofit 123

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measure Impact Issue Survey 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 102

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. Set performance benchmarks (e.g., Analyze revenue against any associated costs (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

One problem is that many do not formulate a measurement strategy and are at a loss to justify their investment of time and resources or reap insights to improve what they're doing. . Altimeter Report: Social Media Analytics. Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? cut and paste).

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Social Media Measure Media Strategy 100

Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Theyre specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant to your mission, with a deadline to keep you on track. Set milestones to measure success. For example, if youre launching a year-round fundraising campaign, set clear benchmarks for securing champions, completing toolkits, and tracking participation levels. Thats step one.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

You can use that benchmark to determine how well your ad copy is performing. Other Performance Metrics to Review Now that you understand the most important metrics to measure success, there are a few reports you can review with those metrics in mind to make any necessary changes. If not, you should make some tweaks to the ad.

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Campaign Evaluation Grant Google 288

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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Social Media Summary Measure Media 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

3) Advanced data reporting. Nonprofits quickly receive the data insights they need to track and measure success through the new Report Center. Capabilities include: the ability to build custom queries, tools for data visualization, and the option to schedule reports. 4) Easy-to-install donate button.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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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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Benchmark Measure System Evaluation 59

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Email deliverability is the measure of how many of the emails you sent actually made it to inboxes and there are many factors that can influence deliverability. 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.

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email Fundraising Donation Rate 118

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. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Social Media Measure Media Social 99

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. Along with the pressure, that limelight also brought opportunity. This was crucial at the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For me, what was most exciting was the group discussion about after reporting on the experiment about to how to design and measure the next experiment with a promoted post. Use promoted posts to accelerate the engagement of good quality content that you know from previous measurement insights performs well.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes. The results of the study are available in this graphic report.

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Studies Data Management Report 89

NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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Benchmark Facebook Report NTEN 60

Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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Benchmark Measure Blackbaud America 56

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 ). To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers.

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Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Cardiologists are looking forward to the future of blood pressure tech — but the field still needs to catch up It’s been over two years since Samsung first announced that its Galaxy Watch would be able to measure people’s blood pressure. Blood pressure measurement is something we need to do a lot more a lot of,” she says.

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Measure San Francisco South Korea Metrics 98

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. billion email messages.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Reports like this are great for organizations to determine if their increases in different web metrics are comparable or better/worse than others'. percent ( sign up for our newsletter here!

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Metrics Measure Web Convio 73

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

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Measure Impact Issue Survey 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2013

While techniques and equipment are important, it is also useful to have some benchmarks and best practices in the nonprofit sector to inform your strategy and measurement plan. Tactics will only go so far. Currently, there are no significant benchmarks around video for nonprofits. Why should you participate?

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Video Nonprofit Benchmark Survey 115

Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The European Union is already leading the charge in carbon-friendly AI solutions, proposing comprehensive regulations that would require detailed greenhouse gas reporting for AI systems. 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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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. As a general rule of thumb, the higher your report in an organization, the fewer and more encompassing your metrics will become. Measuring value-to-stakeholders But what about dashboards? Image by author. Image courtesy of Shane Murray.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. Download Reports.

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Review Benchmark Advocacy Campaign 120

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. You know what they say about measurement, right?

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Social Media 126

Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. It’s clear to us from this year’s report, that digital engagement has taken some important leaps forward for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. per dollar in online revenue.

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Benchmark Digital Trend Report 62

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the major differences between Salesforce and BBCRM is the capability and intuitive interface of native reporting. Let’s start with native reporting. Not only is the need to utilize an auxiliary reporting tool cumbersome, but Blackbaud has also discontinued support for Crystal Reports. a relational DB, like BBCRM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

For now, one thing is abundantly clear: Spend your time on a good strategy for an integrated campaigns with real and measurable results and have high quality content, engage your network, and cultivate of influencers and for now, don’t waste time on this meaningless metric. There’s a lot of confusion.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Keep an eye out for published studies from credible sources that provide acceptable benchmarks about efficiency or effectiveness of a particular technology. Metrics are a unit of measure. Tangible benefits are those we can easily measure and convert into dollars or time. Look at Work Processes. ROI Story Telling.

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