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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

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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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, this is not a universal rule. After setting your goal for dollars raised, determine what metrics you will be tracking throughout the campaign and your goals to measure against. Common benchmarks include the number of new donors, the number of new email subscribers, or volunteer sign-ups.

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Demographics via Candid: A data-driven approach to encourage equitable funding practices

Candid

Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. These disorganized efforts take valuable staff time away from mission-critical work. Introducing Demographics via Candid.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

An assessment tool can help identify strengths, challenges and gaps and help the board hold themselves accountable to reaching benchmarks and goals. Examine current goals and objectives around board diversity and create benchmarks. Jen earned a bachelor’s of recreation management from University of Northern Iowa.

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Zoetica Salon Summary: A Few Good Social Media Measurement Insights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. But we leave them out of our book because they are neither timeless nor universal.

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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

Candid

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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