Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Examining the best nonprofit websites out there may give you an idea about whether it’s time to revamp your website or not, but we recommend also using a more empirical approach to determine if you need a new online strategy. You can use the revamp process to update multiple pages or aspects to give your site a uniform, cohesive look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. And, the process of observing even 10 other similar organizations social media practices can give you lots of good ideas if you approach with discipline. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

Because they give leaders a quick appreciation for the net worth available to tap into in case of emergency or to smooth out cash-flow issues. A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio. Are they positive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I do share URLs to my posts, but try to link to a conversation. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." Twitter As A Conversation Tool. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. My ratio is 2.4,

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff. Then…repeat!

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. Here’s the point: Always expect the unknown and give yourself a few extra weeks to buffer between deadlines. Landing Page Conversions. A study by Ahrefs found that only 5.7%

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Bounce rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Giving Good Poke.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Analytics Google Social Media Websites 54

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

While nonprofits often personalize direct mail campaigns—based on giving history, interests and past actions—that approach isn’t always carried over to their email campaigns. Conversely, if you’re not delivering personalized content, your email could negatively impact your relationships. How to Personalize Your Emails.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

This page will be updated as more Giving Tuesday resources come to light. To suggest more Giving Tuesday ideas, please email steven.shattuck@bloomerang.co. Get notified when additions are made to this page: Giving Tuesday is fast approaching! Each year, Giving Tuesday occurs the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Text-to-Give.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Online fundraising allows your supporters to: Give at any time. Online fundraising allows your supporters to: Give at any time. Give from anywhere.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Online fundraising allows your supporters to: Give at any time. Online fundraising allows your supporters to: Give at any time. Give from anywhere.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. They are not formally changing it but having conversations with their finance committee about what’s happening day-to-day and month-to-month. Don’t avoid this conversation! Say whaaaaat?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Did you know that online giving grew 4.1% This means that online giving has just achieved its sixth consecutive year of growth. Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind. Increased Conversions. over the past year ?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

If I were to put a ratio on it, I wouldnt want to exceed 30% self-promotional content to about 70% links to other things. We get a direct line to our constituents, who can give us instant feedback and answers that were looking for. Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Follow these seven steps to create a powerful content strategy that drives engagement and conversions: . Increase donation page conversions by 100%. . Assign relevant metrics to each goal. For example, you might track donation page conversions, homepage bounce rate, or overall website traffic. Set a goal. Anne Stefanyk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. It’s not possible.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In the realm of charitable giving, finding new donors is like discovering hidden gems that fuel your mission’s growth. Those interested will be required to give you their email address in exchange for the resource, which leads to new subscribers to your email content. What exactly is a lead magnet ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. Followers: Gives a measure of reach. First, let me offer this disclaimer. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. For me, I needed data to help focus on four things: Data to measure and monitor the performance of the individual giving fundraising program. Percent of donors giving 5+ years consecutively.

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