Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. This is not a long process. Take action!

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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Now that you’ve collected the data from years past and reflected on it alongside colleagues across departments, you can document your development activities and the challenges or learning experiences that arose. Establish the metrics that will determine which elements work, and which offer opportunities for improvement.

Gift 84

Gift Develop Measure Blackbaud 84

Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedman’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people transition to citizenship and documented millions of federal records relating to the refugees, freedmen, and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War. By viewing projects as products, it becomes easier to track usage or feedback metrics over time.

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Product Develop Impact Case Study 89

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. This will give you the full picture of how your organization handles data. If you are the data guru, welcome to the club.

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Chart Map Data Attention 91

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Now that you’ve collected the data from years past and reflected on it alongside colleagues across departments, you can document your development activities and the challenges or learning experiences that arose. Establish the metrics that will determine which elements work, and which offer opportunities for improvement.

Gift 52

Gift Develop Measure Blackbaud 52

Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you own a dog kennel, you could integrate your website with Gingr’s dog boarding software to allow customers to conveniently make reservations and payments, sign forms, and see pictures of their pets while they stay with you. Creating training documents and video tutorials.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To learn more about how to calculate and apply your indirect cost rate to your programs and services, check out our webinar with Dr. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs. Document any processes you don’t already have highlighted. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 91

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure your internal control documentation includes the naming conventions, so your audit team doesn’t have to slow down the process by asking what specific entries are. Are there reports you can schedule that would save you time by communicating key metrics to stakeholders before they ask for that information?

Foundation 88

Foundation Build Fund Review 88

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Missing the Big Picture: The database coding is set-up for one-off events, reports, or initiatives rather than considering the long-term strategy. Identifying documents and spreadsheets used to track fundraising efforts outside of your databases. Gathering any written standard operating procedures or process documentation.

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Database Donor Fundraising Map 52

Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A brand guidelines document is a set of rules and standards defending the use of different components of your brand. While each department is focused on its specific goals, rather than the overall organizational mission and vision, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. You don’t see the value in having brand guidelines. .

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Guidelines Nonprofit Audience International 72

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. This information can give you a clearer picture of how your fundraising efforts have grown or changed over the years. A few effective metrics to track include: Donor retention rate. Note these specifics and address them in your new fundraising strategy.

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Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 107

Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. You’re looking at your predecessor’s documents for tracking prospective major donors and you’re faced with an endless number of spreadsheets.

Report 56

Report Data Tools Stats 56

Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

Your content strategy is a living document, a map that you and your colleagues can use to decide where your content goes on your site and how you will use it to deliberately create intentional ongoing engagement with your organization. Your strategy allows you to create a cohesive picture of the organization across your whole site.

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Content Strategy Map Audience 47

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Analyze donor behavior, campaign performance, and operational metrics to make data-backed decisions and optimize your fundraising. This helps your nonprofit get an even more accurate picture of how your donor base is performing! Tailoring your donor communications helps foster stronger connections with your supporters.

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Software Effective Nonprofit Collaboration 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure your internal control documentation includes the naming conventions, so your audit team doesn’t have to slow down the process by asking what specific entries are. Are there reports you can schedule that would save you time by communicating key metrics to stakeholders before they ask for that information?

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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Social Media Media Avatar Organization 209

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Orchestras and Social Media Survey View more documents from Marc van Bree. What are the valued metrics? Do orchestra managers share the opinion that fundraising and attracting volunteers are highly valuable metrics, or do they have different goals and objectives? How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media?

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Social Media Survey Media Social 92

Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. The equipment is mostly analog: the index cards and colored dots pictured below, plus a place to record the results. The totals are then tallied.

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Exercise Social Media Offline Content 55

Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

The metrics provided by third-party paid media platforms were always shaky at best and are becoming increasingly untrustworthy as digital privacy changes take hold. Implement a compliance solution One like Termly , to replace your static policy pages with robust embeddable documents that you can easily update over time.

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Marketing Plugin Policy Track 52

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 23, 2024

Blackbaud allows you to create custom reports and dashboards and track key performance metrics so that your organization can track progress toward its goals, identify patterns and trends in donor behavior, and allocate resources wisely. Customized and detailed reporting. Support for sustainable organizational growth.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Support Guide Help 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

expectations); Compare actual activity to expectations (comparison of budget/prior year to actual); Present a picture of the financial health of the organization. Many ratios and other information can be derived from financial documents that are useful to interpretation. Simplify without Compromise.

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Report Ratio Tucson Director 86

Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

Also, think about the big picture. A helpful thing to do: Don’t forget to take a breath and capture your metrics. Fact #4: We must document it. We can’t let this moment pass without thoroughly documenting your efforts. It’s essential that we take the time to write case studies, gather metrics, capture screenshots.

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Museum Case Study Social Media Proposal 31

NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Training and Documentation Though none of the Center’s staff regularly uses social media personally, Risa Breckman decided that the entire team should be involved in the planning and training process so that knowledge-sharing efficiencies could emerge. The resource list is really the “go to document for all things online.”

Social Media 96

Social Media Collaboration Org Media 96

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Collecting data It includes collecting data to examine various metrics of the training to determine its positioning and relevance. Determining your learning needs, namely: 1.What

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Evaluation Model Train Training 40

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Collecting data It includes collecting data to examine various metrics of the training to determine its positioning and relevance. Determining your learning needs, namely: 1.What

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Model Train Training 40

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Collecting data It includes collecting data to examine various metrics of the training to determine its positioning and relevance. Determining your learning needs, namely: 1.What

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Model Train Training 40

.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

These are a few of the metrics that Bard, Google’s new AI search bot, found for me: From McKinsey—companies in the top quartile for racial/ethnic and gender diversity were respectively 36% and 25% more likely to have superior financial returns. They must focus on big-picture questions. trillion globally.

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Build Demographics Associations Voice 322

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact. Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people.

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Case Study Story Data Studies 68

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Generally, putting this model into practice looks something like this: You and your team members go out on a retreat to unify your understanding of the organization’s big-picture goals. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Examples Guide Model Los Angeles 120

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Processes/Operations Where data resides, who owns it, and how it flows through the organization Definition and documentation of processes and responsibilities Human, financial, and equipment resources 7. Technology/Systems Current systems and how they interact User satisfaction Customer satisfaction Efficiency 8.

Technology 221

Technology Attitude Evaluation Digital 221

Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

This means asking new questions and creating a deeper dialogue with your nonprofit and other partners to get the full picture of your impact. And by speaking the same language as your funders and other partners, we are all taking a collective, clear approach to achieving outcomes and documenting progress toward results.

Measure 26

Measure Impact Tips Collaboration 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. You have to set up a framework at the beginning - hence the vital importance of a strategy map.

ROI 66

ROI Results Community Online 66

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Rather than tasking a team member with manually pulling daily, weekly, or monthly reports, your CRM will generate these documents and send them directly to the team members who need to access and analyze them. Depending on the solution, features may include: Reporting automation. Donor management. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Supporters simply connected their Twitter profile with Twibbon on the TMWL Twibbon page, and the tool updated the Twitter profile picture of the user with an overlay that included the campaign logo and hashtag. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures.

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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Use a spreadsheet to document all fundraising endeavors, assessing expenses, benefits, and key details for each. Picture a passionate advocate valuing social impact or a digital-savvy donor who prefers online engagement. This metric tracks the percentage of donors from the previous year who continue to contribute in the current year.

Develop 75

Develop Calendar Nonprofit Retention 75

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. The impact metrics you share The stories of transformation you tell Selecting which metrics and outcomes to highlight is crucial.

Report 98

Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 98

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I was presenting on the way we can identify metrics in social media that help us reach our mission and how to use those metrics strategically. I have done a few webinars and presentations about social media tracking and metrics and frequently used the phrase “actionable data.” Strategic Data. So, add them!

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Social Media Media Help Metrics 240