NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2025

Post-Event Surveys for Volunteers: 7 Questions To Ask Imagine hosting an incredibly successful volunteer event for your political advocacy organization, helping more people register to vote than you ever thought possible. This survey question gauges whether volunteers felt acknowledged for their contributions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Every year, NTEN conducts an annual Community Survey to find out more about the individuals and organizations in the NTEN Community. Our annual Community Survey is one way we listen to your needs and experiences to inform our work. The annual Community Survey serves us in two critical ways. across departments.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Acknowledge Change Isn’t it enough that you did your research and purchased a tech stack that fits your needs? Hopefully, a crisis is not in your future.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

Candids Issue Lab is an open-access library dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing reports, case studies, surveys, and toolkits published by social sector organizations. Views on Offshore Wind in New England by the Barr Foundation and Hart Research. Kellogg Foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

posted by Karina Lungo , Research Assistant, ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The intersection of project management and prospect research is becoming more apparent as organizations strive to remain adaptable in an ever-changing landscape. This blog post explores how agile methodologies can be leveraged in prospect research, offering insights into their application and benefits.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. Here’s what you need to know about post virtual event surveys: Tips for Crafting Your Post Virtual Event Survey.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research (This is Part 5 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. Google Research has been at the forefront of this effort, developing many innovations from privacy-safe recommendation systems to scalable solutions for large-scale ML.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to a research report by Twilio, 58% of nonprofits are using AI as part of their communication, compared with 47% of B2C for-profit businesses. If you have a small staff and can’t put together a full committee, find ways to gather information such as through a survey, to see how people are using AI tools now.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Preparing for Fundraising Before diving into fundraising, take a moment to evaluate your programs and services. Use surveys or data analytics tools to better understand your constituents and tailor your fundraising messages accordingly. What are your nonprofit’s core strengths?

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sgEngage

JULY 30, 2024

Then one day, I received a phone call from a former colleague who had run the Global Market Research division at Pearson Education. How Math is the Solution Since 2019, CollegeAPP has surveyed Americans nationwide to identify adults who intend to pursue postsecondary education and training. Let me share more.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, a charity walkathon, bikeathon, or runathon to raise money for cancer research brings together everyone who has been affected by cancer, including survivors and their friends and family. Evaluate the success of your nonprofit’s event and make required changes to improve year over year. 6) Market Your Event.

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.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Their research indicates that customers don’t want quantity.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

Recent IDC research, sponsored by Tableau, found that 83% of CEOs want a data-driven organization, but only 33% of executives are comfortable questioning business KPIs and metrics1, revealing disparities between what executives “want” and “have.”(1) This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Survey your donors and determine which mobile giving avenues work best for them and your organization. Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Recent research helped shed some light on this issue and provided a clear path forward for nonprofit professionals. Monitor campaign performance.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Proactive Data Gathering.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2012

NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more. > Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly "IT") Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. However, only 7% are evaluating ROI rigorously or regularly. >

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to a 2020 Edelman study , 89% of decision-makers surveyed believe that thought leadership improves their perceptions of an organization — yet only 17% of them rate the quality of the information they read as very good or excellent. Do the Research Favorite playlists change quickly. Here’s one significant challenge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2013, Nico Jaspers, who previously founded market research firm Dalia Research, began noticing a shift in consumer behavior: More people were easily reachable via their smartphones. Latana secures cash injection to grow its mobile platform for product research by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew? Research the steps needed to create a direct mail fundraising program (e.g. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on foundations in your area or state. Research the renting or purchasing of mailing lists for direct mail campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

If an organizational evaluation isn’t on your agenda, now is the time to revise your schedule. We’ve interviewed icons and iconoclasts of association leadership, conducted focus groups, and developed surveys. Our paper “ Pathways to Organizational Excellence ” is the distillation of that research.

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.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

A 2018 ASAE Foundation research study identified a strong correlation between innovative initiatives and success.” Survey your members to assess whether they are finding value in the benefits you provide. Contract employees are a good way to evaluate which project configurations are conducive to more efficient work. says Liz. “A

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

Recent IDC research, sponsored by Tableau, found that 83% of CEOs want a data-driven organization, but only 33% of executives are comfortable questioning business KPIs and metrics1, revealing disparities between what executives “want” and “have.”(1) This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 21, 2023

It usually involves a cross-functional team of ML practitioners who fine-tune the models, evaluate robustness, characterize strengths and weaknesses, inspect performance in the end-use context, and develop the applications. Sign up to be notified when Visual Blocks for ML is publicly available.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We surveyed 121 community foundation executives from across the United States. Brown, Ph.D. Key Points.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, Candid released our latest research manual, Analyzing Candid’s demographic data. The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. Over 62,000 U.S. nonprofits currently share some demographic data about their staff and board with Candid.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company is attempting to minimize its own research Ever since The Wall Street Journal published internal Facebook research that found Instagram harmed the well-being of teenage girls, the company’s defense has been to minimize and dismiss its own findings — saying documents were only relevant for internal product development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. Research Studies' Guest Post by Mary Trudel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. You can use pivot tables to summarize anything from demographic information to satisfaction survey responses. Pay attention to what’s not there—your missing data.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Who Tweets? You're in luck!

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Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

A five-person team of data and evaluation professionals gather, analyze and disseminate data to assess the effectiveness of SAGE’s programs and services. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Analyzing data to ensure program impact and effectiveness With an annual budget of $21.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the most valuable is to incorporate a process evaluation, capturing what actually happened as the event or program unfolded. This can avoid repeating mistakes of the past. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

As the report points out, “personal health data” falls into a bermuda triangle as it is currently mostly outside of the mainstream of traditional health care, public health or health research. Researchers pay SmallStepsLab for this access as well as other enhancements that they might want.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

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