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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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ? Are you doing a good job telling your story and not getting caught in organizational red tape? Why is that?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Communicating the stories of your nonprofit is the most powerful means of inspiring your donors and supporters. In fact, 56 percent of individuals who follow nonprofits on mobile and social networks take further action, the number one action being making a donation, after they have read a compelling story published by a nonprofit.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

From Environmental Challenge to Potential Solution Here’s where the story gets truly exciting. 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.

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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. Craft a story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. 10) Explore Twitter Spaces, Newsletters, and Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

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. Stay focused : We all create goals and benchmarks and metrics.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whether you tell stories in your fundraising or communications program, chances are you want to understand the impact and return on investment (or ROI) of the stories you tell. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Customize their personal page with own story and picture. 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 They: Register early. Send emails to as many people as possible, multiple times. Belong to a team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

It didn’t matter whether you were burning money left and right: As long as you had chubby growth numbers, a strong story and charisma, your round was pretty much guaranteed. 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.

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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. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Explore our customer stories to discover how nonprofits like yours have used these solutions to raise more for their causes.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Rather than sending an email that simply says, “Here’s your receipt,” we could start sending hyper-personalized thank you emails, telling stories of impact, or sharing evidentials that reinforce just how valuable the donor’s gift is. What if we could turn gift acknowledgement into something that provided value to the donor. The result?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Data Analysis. Respond here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.     What a combination!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Online fundraising continues to shine, but there’s more to the story. According to the Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits [ Download Now !] Paying attention to sustainer giving, website traffic, email response rates and other key metrics is an important part of creating a successful online fundraising program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

The best feeling in tech journalism is telling a story about a startup before it becomes a household name. On that note, one of my favorite renewed series at TechCrunch is an EC-1 (Extra Crunch subscription required), a story series that goes through the nitty-gritty of a startup’s story, from its original days to its pivots along the way.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Mobile-friendly content According to the M+R Benchmarks report , The majority of nonprofit website traffic came from users on mobile devices 52%, with 48% of traffic from users on desktop devices. With that in mind, its no surprise that 92% of people want brands to create story-like ads.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 4, 2024

One piece of data taken alone doesn’t tell the whole story. To truly understand the health of your organization, there are seven key metrics you should track in your database: Year-on-year revenue Donor file growth Donor retention Gifts per donor Average gift Revenue per donor Cost to acquire Data can be overwhelming.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Long story short, QR codes ask a lot from users, including the following steps: recognize QR code, pull out mobile phone, launch QR scanner app (assuming they already have one downloaded), perfectly align mobile camera to QR code, snap picture, submit QR code, wait for response, then arrive on desired website.

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CauseVox

JULY 10, 2024

This integration ensures that all information is easily accessible and well-organized, which is essential for sharing stories with donors and raising funds efficiently. Enhanced Donor Engagement : The clear display of impact metrics and the automated matching feature increased donor satisfaction and engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics. A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Static workload benchmark is insufficient. The standard way to evaluate ANN indexes is to use a static workload benchmark , which consists of a fixed dataset and a fixed query set. A static workload benchmark. This evaluation approach was popularized by the ann-benchmarks project which started 5 years ago. MIT Licence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’m unsurprised to see that those parts of the story, in particular, were very well covered. Promising early metrics For a company raising more than $40 million, I would have expected pretty beefy metrics. Clear, bold mission [Slide 2] Off to a solid start. Again, elegantly done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. Recruit 40 organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A solid monthly finance routine will create efficiencies, allow you to slow down and understand the story your numbers are telling. The comparative reports give you a benchmark for performance, comparing your results to last month or last year. Here are three monthly habits that you can start practicing today. But often things change.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. ARR per employee is the North Star efficiency metric you’ve been looking for. “APE is an extremely simple metric we think could serve as your north star as you navigate these volatile times.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Funding-round stories are TechCrunch’s bread and butter. That’s a story that we can tell every day. From time to time, a debate pops up about the role of funding-round stories: Are financings the right metric to focus on? Natasha Mascarenhas: The stories are so much more than the dollar signs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. It’s been a strange news day, but never fear, we have some great stories for you to peruse. Well, in the wee morning hours, Tage laid out more of the story based on an employee email obtained by TechCrunch.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

Do you know the first steps in telling your organization's story? I have been fortunate to work at a few nonprofit organizations, and there is always a critical need to effectively tell the story. However, in our world, one of the most challenging tasks can be translating complex issues and ideas into a compelling story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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