Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. It outlines best practices and specific activities that funders can employ to safeguard and support their participatory grantmaking decision makers.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Meaningful Volunteer Roles: By understanding volunteer skill sets and motivations, leadership can advocate for the creation of impactful volunteer roles. Leadership can champion practices like clear communication, appreciation, and growth opportunities to retain volunteers.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

Why we opted for participatory grantmaking Safety Net Grants uses participatory grantmaking—the practice of centering affected communities by giving them the power to decide which organizations to fund. We believe organizations led by individuals who mirror the demographic makeup and experiences of their communities are the most impactful.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position. Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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Candid

OCTOBER 13, 2022

COVID-19 Response: Which Changes in Grantmaking Practice Should Be Here to Stay? PEAK Grantmaking and Candid teamed up to host a forum for peer learning and knowledge exchange on COVID-19 response practices. Can a foundation live up to its role of serving the public good with an invite-only process? Grantmakers, not so fast!

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The reality is that the higher education pipeline is even smaller than what demographic statistics show. Get engaged with your local or regional affiliate organizations like NACAC or AACRAO to brainstorm on best practices, generate ideas, and gain insights that could empower your institution’s strategy. For example, the U.S.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

Define Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities Once you’ve identified the tasks that volunteers can perform, create clear and detailed job descriptions for each role. Develop a recruitment strategy that targets the ideal volunteer demographics. What skill sets are required for these tasks?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

By investing in getting to know who your volunteers are and what motivates them to donate their time and effort to your organization, you can ensure that they are placed in a role where they will thrive. In turn, this empowers each organization to match the right volunteers with the right role every time. WHO are your volunteers?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Survey responses suggest that systemic racial barriers may be the cause of these inconsistencies. Respondents of color report greater workplace challenges than white respondents, including: Lack of role models. Racial biases in employers’ recruitment practices. Utilizing hiring technology that hides applicant demographics.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

Or, if you’re still planning community engagement ideas, send out a survey to your support base to ask for their opinions on ways they’d like to get more involved. Gauging the effectiveness of your engagement strategies requires accurate data collection and maintenance practices. Clean supporter data.

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Forum One

AUGUST 19, 2021

Human-centered design, design thinking, and research best practices all champion the value of putting people first. Audience research is most commonly conducting through the following approaches: Surveys: Often considered as quantitative research, surveys can include open-ended or multiple-choice questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2022

The Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey, administered by Nonprofit HR, found that 64% of the nonprofits surveyed did not have a formal strategy for recruiting employees, and 56% indicated that they had no structured plans to create one. Recruiting diverse leadership. As the U.S.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Sponsors often play a large role in the success of any event. And virtual events provide a great opportunity to potential sponsors by offering greater insight into attendee demographics and behaviors. Certainly, some issues may arise regardless, but most can be avoided with a little bit of practice. Choosing the Wrong Sponsors.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 2, 2024

If you sent post-event surveys to attendees, review that data as well. When designing a microsite, be sure to follow a few best practices. Pre-draft a quick survey to make this process easy after the event. How did you promote the event and through which channels? Did the events reach their goals?

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Define the demographic characteristics of who is most affected by the identified issues. Consider conducting surveys, interviews, focus groups, or community forums to gather input directly from those affected by the issues. Explore the role of technology in nonprofit operations. Who will your nonprofit serve?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

Jen initially wrote this post for me to share a highlights from a webinar we hosted: Are you asking the right questions in your post event survey? In July we sent out a survey to over 6,000 donors, participants, and team captains and got about 1,000 responses. We involved IT, Marketing, and Fund Development to help craft the survey.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Sponsors often play a large role in the success of any event. And virtual events provide a great opportunity to potential sponsors by offering greater insight into attendee demographics and behaviors. Certainly, some issues may arise regardless, but most can be avoided with a little bit of practice. Choosing the Wrong Sponsors.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Impact metrics play a crucial role in defining your nonprofit’s impact story and demonstrating your value to your donors, funders, volunteers, board members, and other key stakeholders. Participant demographics. With this in mind, let’s begin by discussing the value of thoughtful nonprofit impact metrics. . Number of participants.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 10, 2023

Specifically, for your nonprofit merchandise, assess your audience by: Reviewing demographic data. While a younger demographic may want different products than an older one, consider other factors, as well. To learn more about your audience’s preferences, consider asking them through surveys and online polls.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, they can read the full marketing plan to understand how their responsibilities fit in with other roles and the broader goals of the campaign. You or your marketing agency may conduct interviews with target audience members, share surveys, create audience personas, perform A/B tests, and more. Conducting user research.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On February 14, Candid launched Demographics via Candid, a campaign through which we partner with organizations across the social sector to encourage demographic data sharing. What are the practical implications of these changes? What’s changed? What was Candid’s approach to making these changes?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2018

Marketing plays a crucial role in this aspect, and with a well-defined online marketing strategy, reaching your target audience and the results you want are more than ever before. Despite the fact that there's audience demographics for every social media platform , it doesn't mean that it's only utilized by the younger audience.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

The shifting demographics of the population will have a great impact on the creative economy. This means that board leaders and staff members must represent the community at large, and reinforces the need to survey community members for their opinions. Eliminate Barriers to Participation.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

According to this report by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and GIFT (Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training), and cited by Blue Avocado, of among 104 communities-of-color-led nonprofits surveyed, about half of the organizations reported 5% or less of their budget coming from individual donors.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Anecdotally and intuitively nonprofit professionals know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in charitable engagement. Having the right board member influence or make “the ask” is a common and very successful practice. Social media ready for primetime? The jury on that question is still out.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Donor management encompasses a whole host of practices from donor engagement, stewardship, and appreciation to demonstrating your nonprofit’s impact. Even though the donor journey is about people, don’t think that data doesn’t play an important role. It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Survey data reveals a significant 41% who are planning to adopt automated onboarding within 6-12 months. According to a survey, 56% of the participants believe onboarding automation software will certainly increase employees’ productivity. This ensures the relevance and effectiveness of the process.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Survey data reveals a significant 41% who are planning to adopt automated onboarding within 6-12 months. According to a survey, 56% of the participants believe onboarding automation software will certainly increase employees’ productivity. This ensures the relevance and effectiveness of the process.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Survey data reveals a significant 41% who are planning to adopt automated onboarding within 6-12 months. According to a survey, 56% of the participants believe onboarding automation software will certainly increase employees’ productivity. This ensures the relevance and effectiveness of the process.

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Gyrus

JULY 17, 2024

Survey data reveals a significant 41% who are planning to adopt automated onboarding within 6-12 months. According to a survey, 56% of the participants believe onboarding automation will certainly increase employees’ productivity. In contrast, automated onboarding processes leverage intelligence, offering self-serve support.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

1,900 of community members surveyed (6 percent of community) have reported negative effects on the overall environment due to this prolonged drought that is a result of climate change (SOURCE NAME, DATE). Specific: It is specific because it includes the target demographic (50 farmers), and with sustainable innovative irrigation practices.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

Survey your volunteers and routinely seek their feedback. The easiest way to listen to your volunteers’ voices is to conduct a survey. The aim of conducting a volunteer survey is to gain statistically beneficial answers, while simultaneously empowering them and bolstering your retention efforts. . Make the survey anonymous.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

Does your cause have a specific demographic? The executive director manages the big picture ideas and assigns roles and responsibilities to other staff and volunteers. It might also be a good idea to do a practice run-through with your technology and any entertainment. Event follow-up.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Providing personalized experiences has become a standard, almost expected, practice among marketers. Google Analytics, for example, allows you to track your association’s website performance and analyze user behavior via metrics like website traffic, source of traffic, demographics, conversions, and more. Let’s get started!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A nonprofit marketing plan requires you to think through your marketing goals, your audience’s communication needs, your organization’s brand, your budget, marketing channels you want to use, and what roles your team members play in your marketing strategy. Try sending a survey! Give Your Team Members Specific Roles.

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