Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Importantly, TBP also acknowledges that funders do not inherently have more expertise or knowledge than grantees do, and that we can only achieve sustainable impact if we work together as equal partners. We realize that some of the most impactful work is being done by organizations HF might not know about.

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Greater Giving

JULY 25, 2024

By establishing precise outcomes, you create a roadmap for your event’s direction and maximize impact. Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. Your organization’s impact story is the heart of your campaign. What do you hope to achieve?

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Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

A report from The Bridgespan Group, Illuminating Impact: Why Gender Matters for Funders in Any Issue Area , warns that funders risk “leaving impact on the table” by not applying a gender equity lens broadly. In 2021 and 2022, only 16% of gifts of at least $25 million named gender as an explicit component.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Make the content visually appealing and supportive by using crisp, high-quality graphics, photos, and animations. Supporting Learner Engagement and Motivation Measuring the Impact of Video-Based Learning Institutions must measure how their video-based learning initiatives are performing to further improve them.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Make the content visually appealing and supportive by using crisp, high-quality graphics, photos, and animations. Supporting Learner Engagement and Motivation Measuring the Impact of Video-Based Learning Institutions must measure how their video-based learning initiatives are performing to further improve them.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Make the content visually appealing and supportive by using crisp, high-quality graphics, photos, and animations. Supporting Learner Engagement and Motivation Measuring the Impact of Video-Based Learning Institutions must measure how their video-based learning initiatives are performing to further improve them.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. Nonprofit storytelling refers to narratives an organization shares (often called “impact stories”) as a way to illustrate its mission and connect with supporters on a personal, emotional level.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

How do you measure that? This year, the theme was social impact assessment, or measuring the immeasurable. The goal was to explore new ways to measure "immeasurable" social outcomes like connectedness, pride, and civic action. Taking photos. This was the question at the heart of last week''s MuseumCamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

What do you measure every day, week, month, year? How do you evaluate your programs and services? And ultimately, we take action to be part of something as we already have plenty of opportunities to take and share video, photo and messages with our friends or the world at large. Photo credit: Flickr leehaywood.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

How are you measuring your success? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. What improvements would make a significant impact?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently. This helps you deliver impactful content across your organization. This helps improve your volunteers’ experience and maximize the impact of their contributions.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Evaluate what types of appeals and campaigns were most effective so you can tailor future appeals accordingly. Don’t forget to follow up with them after the event by sending a photo or recap of the event results. Add photos and videos to your appeals. Photos and videos are more effective than text alone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. Photo by Nick Henry). The garden program leaders are therefore collecting deeper data to measure the real impact of the gardens. Learn more about our Social Impact Measurement Certificate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Do numbers only matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Photo by George Galanais. I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process. SXSW: March 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Think carefully about the cost of your fundraising activities and the long-term impact your nonprofit potentially has on your community. Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Measure all fundraising metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Most attention to scaling social impact has tended to focus on replicating programs to extend service delivery. Nonprofits that scale up tend to employ this sort of “R & D” approach to concoct successful program recipes and establish success measures.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Focus on five key areas: help them build brand visibility, recognize their generosity, offer creative approval, measure metrics and keep lines of communication open. Invite them for a private tour of your facility and take photos for the local business journals. In other words, how did it impact sales? Brand Visibility.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Its historic impact continues to resonate, highlighting the transformative power of music in rallying support for humanitarian causes. Through the healing power of music, the concert symbolized solidarity, resilience, and unwavering support for those impacted by adversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Dan points over to the Measurment Camp Wiki that I need to explore further.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

Having strong sample sizes is important for almost all experiments, but it’s particularly important for tests like this where the phenomenon we’re measuring is “noisy”—the decision to contribute is complicated and lots of factors feed into it. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

Photo by Mayr. It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure. As Alison Fine suggested in an email to me , it leads people to thinking that there is one way to measure and one measurement. Do we attempt quantify them?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Post photos—people like pretty things. Ask for photos – people think they are good at taking them. The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. How do you value the actual impact of your “inactive” social media connections? Respond to comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Here's one way you might celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called " The New Focus Group: The Collective " where he urges companies using social media to make the last word in ROI insight, not investment. And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact." Are you evolving the tools and methods to measure success (i.e.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Additionally, you may want to record the “assets” on each page (like text, photos, videos, files), meta-data, technology issues, owners, date last updated, etc. Using all of the information you captured during the content audit, you can evaluate your content’s quality. Who needs to approve photos? Is it up-to-date?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? How do you evaluate your programs and services? Remember the car?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. How will you measure success? Based on your goal for using social media, how will you measure your impact? Below is a sampler of ways you could measure success. A blog may be a place to start.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

As the fundraiser, you are simply a guide helping your donor find a way to make a meaningful impact in the world. Donor Based A Donor Based narrative centers your supporters as a key part of your mission to create impact in the world. Personal stories have an undeniable impact on fundraising efforts. Authenticity 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. The google spreadsheet allowed me to easily grab the text and code for the original post, include a bio and photo, etc. I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Photo by Fred Dawson. ??? Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications " is a new report that describes how philanthropy communications professionals are using social media. Evaluation and Measurement: How will foundation asses and evaluate the impact of sucess of their online communications efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. Some are calling it impact investing. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. This helped each team look at the ideas in terms of the cost and impact and prioritize what they thought were some of the best ideas.

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