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Rethinking Annual Giving Metrics: A New Storyline for Higher Ed

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Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics. News & World Report metric of alumni participation , the impact of this ranking indicator is going to show in our data for years.

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Essential Steps for Tracking and Reporting Association KPIs

Association Analytics

It involves: Defining What to Measure: Identify the specific metrics that align with your strategic goals. It’s important to tailor your metrics and dashboards to meet their needs. Effective dashboards use simple, meaningful visuals like line charts and bar charts to highlight trends and performance.

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Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists to Make Sense of Your Data

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Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Charts make it easy to make sense of a lot of data by creating context. That’s where a list format would be more valuable.

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MatrixMaxx 24.1 Release is Full of Visualizations and Dashboard Enhancements

The MatrixFiles

Membership Churn, in particular, charts members lost over a specific time period, providing a crucial metric alongside membership retention. Charting Churn to measure membership turnover offers a high-impact way to see how well your retention efforts are working.

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Using Metrics to Boost Your Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

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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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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6 Best Practices for Increasing Engagement with Digital Impact Reports

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And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Infographics, charts, and visuals can also help make complex information more digestible and showcase the difference your organization makes.

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