Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

These proactive measures will not only keep your SOA in line with the latest accounting standards but also ensure your organization’s financial health is accurately represented, fostering trust among stakeholders and supporting the sustainability of your mission. Engage with accounting professionals who specialize in nonprofit finance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” This helps spread good practices.

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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. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the last couple decades, news of golden parachutes and the minting of new billionaires has drawn attention to executive compensation practices. iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. They allow your nonprofit to remain in operation and tackle major projects such as renovations or establishing new programs. Create a gift range chart. What is a major gift? billion in 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. In today’s complicated and networked world, legal services organizations need to adapt and improve their programs and fine tune their networks at a much faster pace than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. Planning for Success: What is a Monthly Giving Program?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Next, use your knowledge of current expenses like wages, rent, utilities, program costs, etc. By identifying the additional revenue needed, you can begin to prioritize which programs you’re currently considering that will be in the best position to drive profitability and impact. to project what your costs will be for the coming year.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Matching gift software automates the process of your donors using corporate gift matching programs to double their gift’s impact. Qgiv has practically everything any nonprofit could require from an online fundraising platform. Wealth screening software helps you find donors who are capable of different levels of giving.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Your first step is defining what your mission and programs will look like in an adjusted environment. There’s convenience in online connections, and a new appreciation for safety in “touchless” program delivery. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete? A few stepped back or even left.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up? If your organization's average online gift is lower than you would like or your organization has not developed a well thought out year-end online fundraising campaign in the past, then you need to make changes to your online fundraising program ASAP. Tell people what you want them to do quickly.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? In this excerpt from No More Status Quo , Heather digs into the problematic assumptions of long-held “best practices” in the grantmaking space.

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Below, we’ll cover nine best practices and tips on how to write a winning grant proposal. Many grant applications will ask similar questions, such as what programs or materials you need funding for and why, how your nonprofit makes an impact in the community, and how you’ll measure success if selected for the award.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. World Food Program USA.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Doing so can be as simple as sharing a chart with these metrics from the past year: Total dollars raised: overall dollars acquired through fundraising initiatives. This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals. Donor data to exclude from your report.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

This will help you respond quickly to any changes in security best practices or if your organization is the victim of a data breach. Avoid terms that are specific to your organization, such as program names. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists. Need help making sense of your GMS data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2015

The DoGoodData community understands that good data practice is a balance of both the human side and the technical skills. “There is NO correlation between size and budget and high measurement cultures!” One telling statistic is that she found no correlation between budget size and data informed practices.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

Gift range chart : Utilizing a gift range chart is a great way to created focused, goal-oriented campaigns. Fundraising scorecard : How well is your fundraising program performing? Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs. .

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

A volunteer handbook is an essential piece of a successful volunteer program at a nonprofit. You also need a targeted recruiting process, an onboarding process, an orientation, volunteer management practices, and volunteer recognition. Your Volunteer Program philosophy is something you should hammer out with Board input and approval.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Measure, Test, Refine.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

A new year means new resolutions, and for nonprofits that often falls into the category of better fundraising practices. For the next few months, we’re taking an in-depth look at key features and tools that make for a successful development program. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

While most undergraduate programs cover the basics of accounting, the practices of a nonprofit bring a new level of complexity to the art of numbers and reporting. ” After all, you need to build sustainable support for your programs. Programs where 25% or more of staff time is allocated. Properties/Locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. Here’s a few that I found most informative: Best Practices for Big Data: Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. They are not saying don't use numbers.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Here are some Duplicate-Record Review Best Practices : Duplicate review is BORING. 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 –.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Measure The Results There are myriad amounts of ways your nonprofit can measure the success of your online fundraising campaigns.

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