sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

The 16th annual Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report is here! It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. We look forward to this report every year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics).

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. We’d like to invite you to come along by participating in our upcoming 2022 M+R Benchmarks. . The window to sign up as a Benchmarks participant is open NOW. Related Links: Benchmarks UK is here!

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In light of this data scarcity, we position FRMT as a benchmark for few-shot translation, measuring an MT model’s ability to translate into regional varieties when given no more than 100 labeled examples of each language variety. Metric Pearson's ρ chrF 0.48 The same process was carried out independently for Mandarin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

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). 3. Metrics with video are hard and is probably one thing holding back investment. Is your organization using video and getting results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hoping to hop on the 2022 Benchmarks train? This Friday (December 3) is the last day to sign up to be part of the next Benchmarks journey ! And please reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com with any questions. The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out the third quarter and look ahead to Q3 venture capital results (early work here , here , and here ), I am curious about present-day targets for startups at different stages. What are the new new metrics, then? What are the new must-hit startup metrics? Or a Series B?

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Metrics Newsletter Benchmark Attention 89

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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Benchmark Nonprofit Photography Ratio 104

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. Website metrics. Email metrics. Social Media metrics. Fundraising metrics. Website visitors (what did traffic look like on a monthly or quarterly basis?).

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Metrics Digital Strategy Social Media 88

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 4: Define your benchmarks. Who or what are you going to compare your results to? Step 5: Define your metrics. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results.

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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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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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M+R

MARCH 11, 2024

Here are the four biggest takeaways: 1) Huge Results for the Humane Society of the United States: Gabby Green from HSUS shared her experience using Scout Quest data to reactivate a huge inactive file. P.S. Guess who will be releasing a Benchmarks study on April 24? The post Scout Quest Webinar Recap: Humane Society Results!

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Mail Results Benchmark United States 94

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. NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Blackbaud’s annual Online Benchmark report was released earlier this month at #bbcon and the results speak largely to a positive outlook for nonprofit fundraising. . What is surprising, however, are the results seen around email: There was a 60% increase in the total volume of emails delivered. .

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Benchmark Metrics Online Report 55

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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Benchmark Studies Metrics ROI 65

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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. Measuring your results instead of just counting clicks, opens, and tweets. Industry benchmarks are meaningless unless you know how your organization compares to them. Then you can start comparing your results to other nonprofits in more meaningful ways.

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Benchmark Metrics Question Fundraising 44

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. The results consisted of over 3000 paid event registrants and $10,000.00

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email Profit Registration Review 212

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

A good story published on blog that receives a lot traffic and has a strategically placed donate button may result in a small number of passive donations, but fundraising content is written to tap into the core characteristics of what motivates donors to give online (as discussed in Chapter 5) and not just once but multiple times. Engagement.

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Communication Online Nonprofit Social Media 263

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If you want to dig into all of the results, you can check out the full study (including 32 unique and data-driven test ideas) at: recurringgiving.com. The result? The result? Not only does it improve your typical email metrics, it often generates more email responses which help to cultivate the relationship with your donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

You may discover that retweeting your own tweets results in higher engagement than tweeting the same tweet twice. Most nonprofits, however, will have to engage their followers for Twitter to produce results – but Twitter is tricky and not for everyone. Don’t be a #hashtag #spammer.

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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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Benchmark Hunger Advocacy Channel 65

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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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Social Media 125

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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Analytics Training Train Data 64

NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

we know the activities we’re asking people to do will result in their friends and family supporting them by making donations. 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 It’s as simple as that.

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Contest Mind Fundraising Ipod 183

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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Metrics Facebook Question Strategy 64

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

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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Facebook Fundraising Raise Campaign 223

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!) Source Everything ! Let's say you want to track your email fundraising open rate.

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Metrics Benchmark Rate email 55

DataRobot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Even if all the code runs and the model seems to be spitting out reasonable answers, it’s possible for a model to encode fundamental data science mistakes that invalidate its results. Over the holidays, I used DataRobot to reproduce a few machine learning benchmarks. See the source for this graphic.). SARCOS Dataset Failure.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Troubling Nonprofit Statistics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 28th, 2010 I spend a lot of time looking at metrics and benchmarks from across the nonprofit sector. Recurring Giving Benchmarking Analysis says so.

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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. Find a mobile giving software provider that works for and with your organization to achieve the best results. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress.

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Mobile Giving Guide Nonprofit 104

Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

It’s one thing to track metrics, and another to understand the story they tell about where your organization is today and what the most valuable actions to take for the future will be. . We created a free Benchmark Assessment to surface actionable fundraising takeaways based on your organization’s current metrics.

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Fundraising Philanthropy Benchmark Stats 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A good story published on blog that receives a lot traffic and has a strategically placed donate button may result in a small number of passive donations, but fundraising content is written to tap into the core characteristics of what motivates donors to give online (as discussed in Chapter 5), and not just once but multiple times.

Communication 224

Communication Online Nonprofit Social Media 224