Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Implement procedures to asess metrics. The most successful campaigns begin with research.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. The output of a dashboard can in turn be used to generate reports that document an organization’s progress. Five Reports Every Nonprofit Should Know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Too often I hear nonprofit communicators and techies bemoan the stats that their Executive Directors and boards want them to track – mostly follower counts and ‘Likes’. And those Facebook fans that your board is asking you to count and report on?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! If you do, check out Nutshell Mail for reports on your various social media presences. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Facebook Insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Keeps the Executive director up at night. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. An area of social media practice that needs improvement.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. Learning and Metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics. This helps to make connections.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2013

Understanding the strategic plan and the course it is charting for the organization’s future. Take the time to read the plan, think about the plan and understand the key metrics that will be used to show progress against the plan. Strategic plans ARE NOT static documents. That’s the job of your CEO and the CEO’s team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Is it worth it?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

posted by Joseph Garcia Director of Communication, ASU Morrison Institute Director, ASU Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center. Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The director of the Center has been there since 1977 and is originally from Cambodia. What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. Tags as a metric. The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. Whether your grantmaking organization is managing one funding program or a dozen, the right grants management software can save you time and improve compliance through streamlined processes, intuitive reporting, and built-in due diligence.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

CC also reported a significantly increased web presence and that it had engaged a much different constituency of young donors that the organization had not seen before—great potential for the future. Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Board members should take on key campaign leadership roles in partnership with your advancement or development director. By now, you should have a defined gift range chart to demonstrate the impact of various giving levels. It should be directly tied to your progress and defined metrics.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

While there is no industry standard for what qualifies as a major gift—a global organization might target $1 million, whereas a startup nonprofit might shoot for $500—the 2020 Major Gift Benchmark Study reported the median level for a major gift at $5,000-$9,999. But more than a quarter of nonprofits define a major gift as starting at $1,000.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

In a previous blog post written by Kestryl Lowrey (Managing Director, Technology Services) and Stephen Earheart (Director, Campaign Services ), Cloud for Good explored the role of data warehouses in nonprofit technology strategies. This line of thinking also applies to direct mail campaigns and large email blasts.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. I pull in metrics from all over the web to get instant snapshots and create graphs that show changes over time. One place to look). likes Sprout Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

We have a ten step drafting process, with stage 10 being perfection. We have a visual chart that shows us the stage of each draft – so when we reached 80% milestone, my reward was to attend the afternoon sessions of the Social Innovation Summit 2011. Impact Investing. Driving Community Solutions: Impact and Scale.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My executive director asks, maybe my board asks, you know, “Are we getting an ROI at budget time? Even if you’ve got automation, even if stuff is set up to, like, run reports automatically or send out an acknowledgment letter automatically, people use computers. She runs some reports. Is it worth it?”

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

You saw the bar chart. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. How did we report to them? ” “Oh, they don’t require a reporter. Their development committee is afraid to ask for money and primary wants reports to development director. We have to remember this. Yes, they do.

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