Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You need to measure nonprofit impact, according to McKinsey and communicate value in a visually-appealing manner so that it draws readers in and keeps them engaged. Use charts to present statistics and financial figures. Make comparisons (use bar charts, pie charts, stacked bar charts). Source: Venngage.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., A tool for nonprofit success Unlike businesses and corporations, nonprofits measure success by helping at-risk individuals and communities thrive. or combined with photos of the communities you serve.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You know what they say about measurement, right? Start with benchmark data.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. as measured by total giving. It’s contributed to a broader picture of philanthropic giving by including more—and more recent and in-depth—data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score. Why get good at Excel?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. Attainable: Achievable based on your past successes.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view. Management and Organizational Charts. Break up the sections for easy reading, and use graphs and charts where you can. How much will it cost?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you own a dog kennel, you could integrate your website with Gingr’s dog boarding software to allow customers to conveniently make reservations and payments, sign forms, and see pictures of their pets while they stay with you. These measurements should align with your campaign’s goals.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

This sponsor packet should explain the big picture of your nonprofit’s work and tell potential sponsors how they can get involved and support the mission, and outline action in a way that expresses urgency. Don’t just hurl numbers or fancy charts onto the page! Think of this section as establishing your trustworthiness.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

They’re looking at the big picture, the potential of AI to help us understand our constituents better, improve our operations, and ultimately serve our mission more effectively. To put this another way, here is a super scientific chart showing how correlation will be causation for how useful AI will be for someone based on fear.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Measuring the Impact of Your Stories Measuring impact in nonprofit storytelling is a crucial step toward understanding the tangible outcomes of your efforts. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate. Again, authenticity is key.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

While it is important to have your data set be as complete as possible to give you a full picture of your impact, don’t pressure your grantee organizations. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists. Need help making sense of your GMS data?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2021

In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator , we showed how the connection between the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Education Data Architecture (EDA) provides your advancement team with both alumni data as well as giving history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Creating a separate budget for this event and measuring performance against this budget helps you predict what will happen in future years. Nonprofit Accounting Basic #4: Know the “Big Picture” of Your Organization’s Finances. This “big picture” information equips your team to answer questions from the public and funders.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. Pull detailed, customizable reports.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Yes, their manager likely has the big picture in mind, but who knows better how the changes in the last year transformed their world than the person doing it? Some grew and matured with the experience.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” Often new donor counts and retention are measured separately and can feel disparate from each other. Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

You know the old saying; a picture is worth a thousand words? According to research conducted by Social Media Today , pictures are also worth a lot of “Likes” on Facebook too. Take a look at the chart below. That's the problem with these types of studies.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. Given the answers to 1-4 of our example, some of the metrics we could use to measure our success and ROI include: volunteer participation, online “chatter,&# and program growth.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . Because the world of philanthropy is transforming; impact measurement is your organization’s ability to track, report, and – most importantly –. Measuring impact is equally important to both the grantor and the grantee.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

What are the big picture conversations about? The chart below highlights that upward trend. But this funding may have been a stopgap measure at best, and some of these programs have now run their course. As usual, increased demand with decreased or unreliable funding. In 2011, 85% of respondents reported an increase in demand.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2011

It also means that when you're measuring your website's impact on fundraising, your online donation statistics tell less than half of the story. Things like watchdog logos, an expenditures pie chart, and third-party endorsements should be among the most visible elements on the page. Photo: Roadside Pictures , CC license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). Methodology.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. Also, Strive Partnership measured the partners!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But until I started talking big picture with Rob, I don't know that I was truly thinking out the big issues. This creates a measure which organization leaders can share widely and which would help staff see how their work connects with the public. I'd managed for ages by then, and I'd certainly put in place change management.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This helps your nonprofit get an even more accurate picture of how your donor base is performing! Google Workspace’s accessibility, real-time collaboration features, and strong security measures make it a valuable asset for managing both day-to-day tasks and larger projects.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

It’s about understanding the full picture of where we are and where we want to be, and charting our progress along the way. We don’t want to wait years for a solution; we want to be part of measurable progress. Activating change isn’t about feeling good, it’s about doing good.

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