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. Crunch the Numbers We really can’t talk about measuring ROI without talking about our numbers. We’ll use sharing a story in social media posts as our example.

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ROI Storytelling Measure Story 67

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. I shall investigate - I muttered - to know what ROI could account for.

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ROI Social Media Slides Media 77

Classy

AUGUST 11, 2021

We make it easy to compare your current metrics against benchmarks set forth by 4,800 of your nonprofit peers. Consider which resources are needed, and turn them into a repeatable playbook that your team will thank you for when it comes time to execute. Assess Your Fundraising for New Opportunities.

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ROI Fundraising Time Template 109

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Tens of thousands of nonprofits worldwide come online for the first time every year and a large number of them are launching email campaigns using BCC simply because they are unaware of the alternatives or do not want to spend financial resources on an email marketing service. BCC is an absolute worst practice, please don’t do it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

We've been sharing the results of our annual research on nonprofit investments in technology staffing and budgets in multiple ways this year: with the full report , an infographic with the key benchmarks , a webinar – and we also introduced a dynamic benchmarking tool this month. Well, if you thought we'd stop there, think again!

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Benchmark NTEN ROI Evaluation 94

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit?

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes. Respond here.

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Social Media Summary Measure Media 94

sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2025

Using your nonprofits resources wisely over time is key to your long-term fundraising success and ability to achieve your mission. Thats why increasing your return on investment (ROI) in all areas of your operations is critical, especially for your nonprofits website. Your website is the foundation of your online fundraising presence.

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ROI Websites Drupal Donation 52

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Web Bookmarking Map Conversation 114

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. . It also warns against collecting lists and lists of meaningless data that is not benchmarked against business objectives. . Tags: ROI.

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Social Media Measure Media Strategy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

The only way to do that is to benchmark against your organization’s performance or peer organizations. Donna Mehr, Smart Annual Giving, wrote “ How To Evaluate the ROI of Your Annual Appeal.” How To Measure Your ROI on Social Media by Kierra Stein is based on her experience as a social media manager.

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Measure Learning Case Study Social Media 118

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. It will make your group more productive and your ROI much higher. Another perk that is high in ROI is the ability to send “Announcements” to your group members.

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Linkedin Group Practice Management 194

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Social Network ROI Social Media Advocacy 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.      I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.  Photo by Smitty42.    What a combination! tags: blogging nptech ).

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Metrics ROI Community Help 56

Nimble AMS

JULY 13, 2022

While benchmarking is an understandable impulse, it’s often useless,” says Wes. Best practice calls to identify your digital needs and allow that to drive the budget, rather than an arbitrary benchmark number. Determine staff skills and resources for the RFP.

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Proposal Effective Associations Benchmark 121

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With automated processes you can save staff time and enhance your ROI. C areer advancement resources Does your association support your members throughout their careers? Become a go-to career resource in your industry when you leverage the best technology. Automation is the key to reducing manual or ineffective tasks.

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Associations Culture Measure Professional 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." View more presentations from kanter. But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Assign the right resources to collect the data on an ongoing basis. Benchmarks - Taking raw data and reporting in a comparable way.

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Social Media ROI Measure Media 36

Qgiv

JULY 12, 2021

Online resources are considered 20% more useful than direct mail when it comes to influencing donors. Search ads had the best ROI (return on investment) for nonprofits using paid advertising, with an average ROI of $4.78. . The average ROI on social media ads was $1.05. . Mac users give an average of $182 per donation.

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Statistics Fundraising Raise Social Media 116

NTEN

JUNE 5, 2012

Should I put more resources towards developing a formal technology plan? Nearly 44% of respondent organizations are considering ROI of technology projects or programs at least somewhat. However, only 7% are evaluating ROI rigorously or regularly. > Will that improve how our organization works on our mission?

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Survey Report Technology Nonprofit 71

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

specializes in high growth business-to-business software-as-a-service, is aligned with our goal of high but responsible growth, and has the financial resources to help us go big in the automation space,” Cochran told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” “H.I.G. a few months).

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ROI Gartner Active Activism 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits. Facebook has the highest ROI and it is worth investing $100-500 in a test advertising campaign for your monthly giving program. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Practice Fundraising Online Nonprofit 342

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?"

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Web Indiana NTEN Case Study 117

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What does social media success look like, anyway?"

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Web Social Media San Francisco Search 117

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. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve? Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Awareness Social Media Tips RSS 101

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While its true you know your audience better than anyone, you can greatly increase your websites return on investment (ROI) by taking a data-driven design approach. With a continuous improvement mindset, you can refine your website over time and make it a valuable resource for all audiences, no matter their preferences.

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Websites Data Nonprofit Mobile 52

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, much can be learned from analyzing even a single year and comparing yourself to industry benchmarks. Return on Investment (ROI) . ROI and CRD help measure how efficiently your investments (aka fundraising expenses) lead to funds raised. Your goal with ROI is to be positive and the higher the number, the better.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

One of our most valued nonprofit resources is our time, especially in these days of tighter budgets and cutbacks in funding. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Social Media Media Tips Social 99

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. Start small and measure the ROI, that way you’ll have a better idea of what to expect the following year. Set Achievable Goals. Get Planning Now.

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Giving Tips Digital Campaign 112

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

This 1, 3, 5 year plan will serve as your road map, illustrating your course and outlining goals and benchmarks to hit. Most plans offer a benchmark against which actual performance can be measured and reviewed (more on this later.) It is important to establish a baseline and set benchmarks and goals to strive to achieve.

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Communication Effective Impact Benchmark 93

Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Because the pooling layer requires fixed-size inputs, e.g., 7x7 for ResNet50 (R50) CLIP backbone, we crop and resize the region features with the ROI-Align layer (shown below). Evaluation We apply F-VLM to the popular LVIS open-vocabulary detection benchmark. At the system-level, the best F-VLM achieves 32.8

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2008

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Convio Benchmark Social Media Online 28

Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

This allows you to keep your focus on marketing channels that will deliver a higher return on investment (ROI) for your campaign. Benchmarks to hit along the way. Review Bloomerang’s additional resources on the topic: Fundraising Apps: 24+ Must-Have Tools For Your Nonprofit. Determine and assign responsibilities.

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Guide Fundraising Social Media Donor 140

Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reference Sheet: Keep the benchmark rates at your finger tips with this handy reference sheet!

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Benchmark Social Media Studies NTEN 28