Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

As we experience an ongoing shift toward equity-centered grantmaking, some foundations are seeking demographic data on their grantees and nonprofit communities to track, measure, and make informed decisions about the diversity within their grantmaking portfolios. Or will the biased side of generative AI become more dominant?

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question I ask myself, and web masters around the world ask themselves, on a daily basis. The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. Implement offline conversion tracking.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is making a bold and public move to use Candid’s GuideStar profile and demographic survey to track data from grant applicants and recipients. At the same time, there is an increased call for organizations to be transparent about the demographic makeup of our grantees.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

This involves looking at demographics, motivations, and preferences. For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Website analytics: help us track donation page interactions and web traffic. Only ask questions you cannot find the answers too.

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data. Set a baseline and keep track of the progress you are making. For example, if you are hosting an in-person seminar ask the attendees to text questions to you (and give them an incentive to do it). Create a glossary to track and communicate official terms and definitions.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a great question to play with for creating a unique prompt for creating draft personas for your nonprofit. Here are 5 key parts of a donor persona: Demographic information : This includes age, gender, location, education, income, occupation, and other relevant demographic details. How are donor personas usually created?

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TechImpact

JULY 29, 2014

Through the power of analytics, tracking, and the organization of information, a CRM’s ultimately functionality comes when helping your nonprofit develop and execute long-term goals. So how do you go about answering that though question? My CRM will help us better measure success.

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Greater Giving

JULY 25, 2024

Consider these essential questions: What is the primary purpose of your event? Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. Consider your audience: Choose a theme that will appeal to your target demographic and inspire them to participate. Who are you trying to reach? What do you hope to achieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. How To Use Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Practice.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

This prompt essentially asks users to opt-in and “allow” apps and websites to track their activity. If a user opts into tracking, nothing really changes. Currently, every app impacted by Apple’s update is going to have to come up with their own solution to these new data privacy measures. How will iOS14.5 No More Breakdowns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Measurement Challenges.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” In this guide, we’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about nonprofit impact metrics, including: .

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

The data in your CRM takes the guesswork out of relationships because it allows you to track and manage interactions with your supporters. As you look at your data, you’ll find trends that help you create your journeys and measure the success of those interactions. In that case, you might create a journey that looks like this.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 2, 2024

How will you measure and determine success? Or a broader segment of mid-level and major donors with track records of attending events? Track your auction’s marketing results. To measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaign, you’ll need to collect data as it unfolds. Its audience. Its timeframe.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Common ways to segment supporters include grouping them by: Giving level and frequency Engagement history Volunteer status Personal and charitable interests Demographics like age, career, and location To make segmentation easier, consider investing in a text marketing application that integrates tightly with your CRM.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Facebook allows you to target specific demographics for a minimum of one dollar a day. Here are the answers to some common questions about Facebook Ads for nonprofits. Facebook lets you target groups based on demographics, interests, behaviors, and more. The last three months of the year are when 37% of giving occurs.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Once completed, it should seek to answer these questions: If your project is funded, how will it be better and for whom, and why should this particular funder care? Project description Your project description should delve deep into the specific activities of your project and how they will benefit your target demographic.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. There are virtually unlimited metrics you can track— if you can collect the data, you can analyze it. Develop a process for collecting, tracking, and analyzing data.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 26, 2024

To identify an audience within your existing network for your major gifts program marketing strategies, evaluate your: Current donors are already in place, and sometimes, all you need to do is ask the right question. When your nonprofit can demonstrate a measurable effect on a shared mission, it inspires confidence and attracts new donors.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. Consider auditing your digital campaigns to ensure you are accurately tracking key performance indicators (KPIs), properly managing your digital advertising accounts (e.g., Google Ads ), and understanding tracked data. Your resources.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

What are the most important questions to keep in mind? When considering who your volunteers are, you need to collect necessary information from them like demographic information, skills, and qualifications. How are you measuring volunteer engagement? This allows you to collect rich feedback and data points that you can measure.

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Keep track of your online donors. . Ask supporters open-ended questions. Question: When there are so many different social media platforms—not to mention the old standbys of email and texts—how do you reach your followers? Keep track of your online donors. . You may already be keeping track of your donors!

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to tracking and analyzing data, a lot can be learned by looking at other industries. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here at Candid, we’ve been tracking those statistics for the last 12 years as part of our GlassPockets initiative to champion greater transparency in philanthropy. Demographics data—what do grant recipient and grant descriptions reveal about who benefits from the foundation’s grants? Information about the people leading the foundation.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

To fully analyze your audience’s behavior, demographics, and preferences, you could use your data warehouse to look at data from events, online interactions, giving histories, and more. For a holistic view of your programs’ performance, you might pull together information about program outcomes and participant demographics.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. By setting a goal, you will help your organization measure GivingTuesday success and possibly help you raise more. Ask them questions to determine their demographics (age, zip code, marital status, communication preference, etc.)

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 24, 2024

Building a blog on your website can bring in new customers by first answering their questions or providing useful information. Ask your followers back-to-school-related questions to get them excited about the new school year. This data can help you better understand your customers and ensure they receive your marketing communications.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. You know that few of them use TikTok and that even fewer of them fit into the demographic that enjoys the platform.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

After assessing how these donors already interact with your nonprofit, you can build target donor profiles based on demographics, psychographics, giving habits, and preferred communication channels. Ask yourself and your team questions like: Does the concept highlight your organization’s general mission or cause? Track trends.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

While these questions aren’t always easy to answer, you can chunk it down: What is one of your organization’s goals? Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Intangible Measurements : Identity how, and most importantly why , people behave the way they do when they engage with your brand.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

One of the top questions we get asked at Whole Whale is “how can we attract new online donors to our organization?” Twitter offers advertising to target demographics, topics, and geographic areas. YouTube is a video search engine that will let you target any demographic or even popular video with ads.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Your goals should always be SMART goals to ensure that you can easily measure your progress throughout the year and understand how to tweak your strategy to reach your goals.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?” . Measuring inputs and outputs Calculating ROI and other relevant metrics requires measuring your campaign’s inputs and outputs. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

If you took a high school or college course in statistics, you’re on the right track. Maybe the program participants skipped a survey question because they didn’t understand the wording, or maybe the program staff forgot to enter the information into your nonprofit’s database. Why get good at Excel? What about the minimum and maximum?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

When it comes to using a third-party platform for community engagement, communications, marketing, and fundraising, organizations often find that they have trouble tracking the data they really want to, or they find it too difficult to get to the numbers that they stop trying all together. Well, that takes us back up to the top….

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Media Cause

JUNE 28, 2021

Is all our tracking setup correctly? Whether your goal is to drive traffic, acquire leads, get donations or even gain learnings, having a defined why for your campaign will help you plan for, and ultimately measure, success. When selecting platforms you really need to consider the questions listed above: What is your objective?

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