Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2012

I’m focused on data. This year will, I hope, be the year of data. I see more organizations looking for ways to be data-driven in decision making, communications, campaigning, and marketing, and I see a growing interest in and understanding of the value in sharing data. Data for Reporting. Day service events.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Well, if you have, then it’s time to check out heat-mapping, programs that help you gain insights into user interactions such as where on your site they click, what specific areas they explore more than others and generally how they use your site for their purposes.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive. Why use mind maps in your nonprofit practice? Mind maps can help you: Plan nonprofit projects.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vizify scans your Twitter account to find your most retweeted tweets, most influencial and engagaged followers, and the most common words associated with your Twitter account and then packages the data into a Twitter video that you can share with staff and followers. Statigram is a service for tracking your Instagram statistics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

. —– I love data as much as the next person. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. But, there’s more to being data-informed and more to what we should demand of our data, right? Is data helpful if you aren’t using it? data nten'

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s data—the volume, the quality, and the insights it can provide. You carefully analyze and map your legacy data, populating your new system until it’s full of your organization’s history. The Role of a Data Warehouse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

The CRM is the single source of truth for the organization, tracking all engagement for each donor. Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. On top of that, you get whole dashboards of relevant data to help you improve your future efforts.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 17, 2024

Nimble Intelligence According to Community Brands research, 55% of associations say investing in business intelligence and data analytics is a top priority. Nimble Intelligence is a new offering from Nimble AMS designed to help associations gain better insights into their data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2012

After the session, I sat down with VolunteerMatch’s President Greg Baldwin to learn more about how they use data, measurement, and learning to measure and improve impact. It is a live data trail of interactions and connections on the site. As Greg says, ”There is a little bit of a dating process going on.”

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

The answer: craft your own strategy that uses your data, is customized to your audience, and won’t overwhelm your team (or yourself). Here is how you can craft a road map to social media success. Instead of turning to expert advice, look at your own social media data from the past year. This is your road map.

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EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

Locate your data. Check in with all staff members at your organization to make sure you know where all data resides. Ask if they’re capturing and maintaining data in places such as spreadsheets or email inboxes to make sure you migrate all necessary information into your new software system. Do a data clean-up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Nonprofits everywhere are struggling to get their hands on reliable, useful workplace giving data from corporate giving programs. Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? Too many sources of donor data to keep track of. The data generated by the workplace has changed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 252

Candid

JULY 27, 2022

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . It takes more than two years to collect comprehensive data about U.S. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. foundations’ giving.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many human services agencies struggle to share program outcomes with funders and use data to understand how their programs are performing. They share how they are scaling service delivery using data to gain a holistic view of their clients and programs. Breaking Down Data Silos & Using Automation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

Before you launch the sweepstakes, map out your exact moves. 10) Track All Your Sweepstakes Promotions to Understand What Works Best. The key to success with your sweepstakes fundraiser is to track the results of each promotion so you know exactly what is working (and what is not). Here are some examples of things to include.

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Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2021

and other countries around the world share data about their grantmaking with Candid. For one, the data tends to be of better quality than that which is available from public sources like 990 and 990PF forms. These are the rationales Candid offers up in making the case to funders for sharing their grants data.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As associations prepare for 2025, leveraging data effectively becomes increasingly crucial for success. There’s a consistent desire across the industry to tap more deeply into the data that’s been gathered in the myriad systems at hand, but it’s taking the leap that’s long been teh hardest part.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2021

Regardless of the type of website you have, digital marketing is most successful when there is a large amount of data to use. Tags can be used for many purposes, including tracking forms submitted through your website, generating heat maps, conducting surveys, or monitoring how people get to your website. Data Layers.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We focused on two main goals in making this expanded data and information on Candid’s racial equity page freely available. Tracking racial equity funding . In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. and add them to the racial equity funding map. What we learned .

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We hope you like acronyms, because Google is making some big changes — and that means nonprofits will need to understand some important technical details in order to effectively reach, track, and mobilize supporters. GA4 has been built to provide cross-platform data, so user activity can be tracked across web and app access.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But for foundation professional teams it makes for a lot of data and information to be managed, surrounding both the contributions and the distributions. These are: Data health and integration – there’s a brief refresher from part 1 of this series immediately below. Data health and integration – a brief recap.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Specific audience-centric communications will help you relate to individual constituents and give you the ability to track response rates based on each group. This type of data will allow you to determine further or future prioritization and/or resources. 2) Educate. 4) Activate.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. We use all of our technology – from the website, to the database, to facebook – to evaluate our efforts, monitor the community, and create data-driven strategies.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Do you collect the data you need? Is the data in a format that is easy to use? It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners. Using data to create scenarios and simulations is another powerful problem-solving tool. Are systems secure?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

It is mapping out all reported voting/election questions and incidences around the country. As reports are filed, the data will be collected and grouped into categories, and then visually shown on an online interactive map and timeline to provide a real-time interface showing the types and regularity of election-related problems.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Candid ha s been tracking racial equity funding for a decad e , but this recent philanthropy response was staggering. Yet a closer look at th is funding shows that pledges — particularly those from corporate funders — account for nearly three-quarters of the dollars we’ve tracked. billion dollars.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Your database doesn't track the date of your organization's last communication with a donor, and many of them aren't donating because they never hear from you. That sounds like a lot, but is actually nothing more than identifying, tracking, and making small changes to your daily work. Part Two: 5 Steps for Mapping Data.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. This person shouldn’t be the clerical or data entry person. Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Take for instance, Accounting Subledger , a product that allows you to align fundraising data with your existing accounting system. The platform also provides the ability to secure that data to ensure that anyone who logs in will only get access to information they need access to. Assess Your Data & Map it to Your New Model.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2021

To give you a taste of the course, we’ve included a clip below on how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. For our next example, we’re going to learn how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. I’d like to use the Funding Map to identify other potential grantees, not already in our network.

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