NTEN

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In honor of this month’s Evaluation theme and the people who made it happen, here is what evaluators are thinking when they shop. Everyday sexism made visible: What we wish editors of tabloid headlines would think of when they report about women. Community evaluation Things We Like twl' Read more posts on our blog.

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gMail Evaluation Headline Language 69

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin. Look at the example above.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But as we kick off 2023 and look back at what worked well in 2022, an excellent tool for evaluating donor retention is to look at the donors that gave last year but unfortunately not this year (LYBUNT) and work on engaging them with new opportunities to give. You can’t help but notice the negative headlines this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Photo by Bart Maguire Note from Beth: I invited Stephanie to publish her blog post about the network evaluation discussion we had with Michael Quinn Patton yesterday. Our Evaluation Director Gale Berkowitz invited Michael to spend a day at the Foundation while he was out on the West Coast. front page headline about the issue?

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In the current news cycle, it seems like bad news makes it to all the headlines. I work with nonprofits to evaluate our fundraising and marketing platform and help them dream about a world filled with higher conversion rates and increased fundraising. A: The people who work here. Q: What’s your go-to coffee order?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Passionate explaining of impact?

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Any of the following objectives and concerns might trigger an evaluation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

For example, if your nonprofit is centered around adoption, consider incorporating keywords like “child adoption” or “adopt a child” 7) Headlines and descriptions To maximize the effectiveness of your ads, make sure to utilize all available resources. Add all 15 headlines and 4 descriptions to your ads.

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Google Grant Guide Policy 280

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Once we have a complete content inventory, we then proceed with a content audit where we evaluate each page/section of content for how useful it is for the end user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We ran an evaluation after the event and found that the majority of those who had asked questions during Ask a Curator were encouraged by the event to visit the museums they had exchanged tweets with. And itís an opportunity to have some fun on Twitter and debunk some of those stubborn classical music myths.

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Arts Twitter Examples Los Angeles 102

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Even as the reporters acknowledge that museums are trying to better understand and serve their visitors, there''s a hint of menace in headlines like " The Art is Watching You. " evaluation informatics personalization research Unusual Projects and Influences web2.0' We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to adapt.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Draft your pitch as an email with the subject as the headline you would like to see. Start with a headline that summarizes your news. For the subject line, write the headline you want to see.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

These days, big data breach headlines are becoming almost blasé. Jake Marcinko, Blackbaud. We've grown so accustomed to such incidents that the mere threat of a data breach no longer carries the weight and urgency that it once did. What sensitive data do you collect from your donors?

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Data Question Poll PDF 93

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Also note that your local station may list the program for that evening as "Burma: State of Fear" which is the headlining story. microfinance kiva internet microloan

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

While the big names like The Red Cross and Make a Wish have the headlines and the brand recognition, most nonprofits are bootstrapped organizations filled with passionate workers and volunteers doing what they can with limited resources. According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. ,

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Marketing Fundraising Test Nonprofit 197

See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm. Because email… what’s the technical term?… … sucks.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

Seeing the headlines, “ Johnson & Johnson Sues Red Cross Over Symbol &# it is easy to say look at the big bad corporation going after the poor nonprofit. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! I am not sure that’s the case here. J&J files a lawsuit. [.]

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Nevada License Companies Headline 40

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

But, evaluating the performance of your email campaigns can be much simpler. If you’re a classic right-brainer, this headline could send you into a cold sweat. According to IBM, there are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day. What’s a quintillion? It looks like this—1,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s right.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

Google lets you write three headlines and two descriptions for each ad. However, each headline can only be up to 30 characters, and each description is only up to 90 characters. When writing your headlines, you’ll want to keep in mind that the order you write them in may not be the order they’re displayed in.

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Google Grant Headline Rate 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Responsive text Ads are ads in which you specify multiple different headlines and descriptions and Google selects the ones that it feels would be the best match and thus would create the highest probability of the user clicking on the ad.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Investing in fundraising CRM software allows you to inspire and motivate your supporters with beautiful, dynamic emails , and then evaluate their effectiveness with advanced analytics tools. Use striking images and give your page a compelling headline but keep all copy simple and short.

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Fundraising Gift Nonprofit Social Media 87

Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

In this article, we will explain why everyone is talking about AI, what has changed over the past few years, and evaluate opportunities for nonprofits to adopt AI to improve their mission-aligned outcomes safely. Jump to: What is AI, and why should I care? What do these new AI tools do?

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FAQ Language Model Nonprofit 52

M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

While we push ourselves and our clients every day toward a more equitable future, we’re also continually evaluating our internal structures to determine how we can bring an equity-centered approach to all of our work. What is our ideal headline? How do we continuously evaluate and improve our work with storytellers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

That headline isn’t a lawyer joke. That headline isn’t a lawyer joke. Flicker Photo By Mike Willis. And let me say upfront, I respect lawyers and legal issues that nonprofits and foundations have to navigate around social media. What are your best resources, blogs, or other sources for keeping up to date on this topic?

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Social Media Media Social Policy 118

Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2018

Before you embark on a multichannel campaign, it’s important to evaluate the state of your constituent contact information as you may need to deploy strategies to improve the hygiene of your file or append email information in order to maximize your results. Include headlines and plenty of white space to make it easy to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Each headline and subsequent sub-headlines should lead the reader to the conclusion you are trying to make. Write A Headline That People Want To Click. Your headline is the first thing people see when your article pops into their social feeds, inbox or however else it’s found. Use Emotion As A Call To Action.

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Process Content Digital Marketing 98

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Personalize the donation forms and autoresponders for major donors so that the headline, opening statement, and donation amounts, reflect messaging for specifically for them. At the end of the year, look at the metrics to evaluate progress and hold a focus group to gather feedback from donors.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Ask the candidate/vendor to evaluate areas of improvement on your site. This article does so well because: The headline entices a positive emotion from readers. If they don’t have immediate recommendations, move on. An unscheduled call will place the candidate/vendor under pressure to prove their application of knowledge.

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Content Leadership Marketing Files 40

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The ads are text only, containing a headline and a few lines of text. Understanding if your ads are attracting visitors to your site is obviously central to evaluating their effectiveness. If you are seeing a low CTR, you would re-evaluate your choice of keywords and/or your ad content. User sees your ad.

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Grant Google Guide Search 40

Media Cause

JUNE 20, 2023

Instead, Gen-Z led efforts have been able to grab headlines and achieve victories in areas where established efforts have failed. Somehow conservative extremists being outwitted by teenagers makes the victories more headline worthy – garnering them even more resources and support. A few of Gen Z’s major advocacy wins: Raising $2.3M

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