Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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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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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

i We anticipate a steady increase in organizations sharing demographic information as a result of our recently launched Demographics via Candid campaign. The chart below compares the proportion of nonprofits by subject area overall (in blue) with that of the subset of nonprofits sharing demographic data (in orange).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

I learned about measurement from Katie Delahaye Paine, who is the leading expert in measuring communications strategies. I was honored enough to co-author a book with Katie, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” a book about measuring social media and networks. So, I know first-hand how incredibly brilliant she is!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. They did it for one campaign and when they saw the results, they were really excited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Last week I wrote about nonprofit “ measurement malaise &# that keeps some nonprofits putting a measurement strategy for their integrated communications campaigns into practice. In the comments, I asked how can we make measurement fun ? We measure EVERYTHING, all the time. Flickr Photo by Martin Deutsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A logic model helps to visualize those details and highlight the connection between a program's purpose and the programs results, and it helps you make sure you're measuring the right things so you can show success! Sometimes it's hard to see the little details that make up the big programs.

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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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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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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. Remember: Averages are a useful starting point, but there are all sorts of reasons why your results may deviate from the norm. You know what they say about measurement, right? That which gets measured gets done!

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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. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence There is a lot of buzz surrounding AI technologies and rightfully so, as the AI healthcare market is measured to be worth $38 billion by 2027. As a result, care facilities can raise support more efficiently and devote more time to improving their quality of care. With this in mind, let’s begin.

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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.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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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., Donors want and expect their gifts to result in positive impact. A tool for nonprofit success Unlike businesses and corporations, nonprofits measure success by helping at-risk individuals and communities thrive.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

The resulting digital community not only moved mentoring online in a vibrant, flexible way, but also showed BBBSA that it could use technology to learn more about its constituents, make better matches, and more effectively measure the progress of the connections between Littles and Bigs. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It includes a tool that helps measure your networking skills and also lots of methods to help you identify, expand, and use your network to improve your knowledge and work. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement. Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nonprofit Healthcare Data Integration By aggregating data onto one accessible platform, nonprofit healthcare organizations can deliver better results through strategic growth. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results.

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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. This typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

They help your organization measure impact, follow regulations, and show donors you’re on top of the needs of your community. And you can clearly communicate your financial results and impact to your stakeholders with confidence. Failing to do so may result in penalties, loss of funding, or damage to your reputation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

For nonprofits, those are not solely money or efficiency for everything that could be measured. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see?

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Candid

JUNE 24, 2024

While this data is valuable, it represents a significant burden for nonprofits and, as a result, funders also want to make these processes as efficient as possible for all concerned. At the same time, many of these same funders seek best practices in how to glean meaningful insights from this data.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Adjust your digital marketing strategy according to the responses you receive to make clients feel valued and drive better results. The higher your business ranks in Google search results, the more likely people are to visit your website and invest in your products or services. Analyze your CRM.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. Our expectations around results are powerful. Defining and assessing impact is rarely simple but taking a collaborative grantmaking approach can help you identify the real learnings and center the stakeholder to create a solution that actually drives results.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How does it measure its impact? It’s a vital component of effectively delivering results. Greg Perlstein is a digital transformation lead for Salesforce.org, working with customers to chart their paths to greater social impact. Is the work happening efficiently? How will the organization grow to reach and serve more people?

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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. The result is discord among teams and a lack of progress. Donor-centric stewardship.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

Expect to update your sponsor packet regularly with new initiatives, programs, and results from previous initiatives. Potential donors are more likely to get involved in your work if they know exactly where the donation would go, and see that you have produced measurable results in the past to prove you can achieve what you set out to do.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Next, we divided the CEO salary by the median salary of all other reported full-time staff to calculate individual CEO-to-worker ratios for each organization, and then we compiled the results. 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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

The chart below highlights that upward trend. Although many organizations are reliant on government funding or contracts, payments are often received late and rarely do they cover the full cost of delivering the service: These figures are for our national results. What are the big picture conversations about?

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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 order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results.

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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. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete? Few seminars guarantee results, even if you implement everything they taught to the letter.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action.

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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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