Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. Has shared organizational dashboard across departments and process for analyzing, discussing, and applying results. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. This initiative resulted in ABMS CertLink®. Blue Ocean Strategy was used to evaluate the potential for promoting the product to new markets. That idea might seem a little miraculous.

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Strategy Marketing Detroit Associations 221

.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

These are the other six qualities: PCI’s cultural DNA Service Collaboration Accountability High-performing and results-oriented Diversity Work/life balance “Promoting these values makes our office a space people enjoy. Our results were not where we wanted them to be. Making that evaluation requires collaboration.

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Culture Skills Collaboration Associations 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Content to be rewritten. New content to be created.

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Websites Analytics Project Proposal 303

Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Volunteer engagement surveys are an invaluable tool for nonprofits. Explore how these surveys can provide crucial insights, elevate the experience for volunteers, and optimize processes, to help nonprofits better achieve their mission. Conducting a satisfaction survey can help a nonprofit identify areas where improvements can be made.

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Survey Volunteer Impact Data 72

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Emergency Social Data Survey Results – americanredcross's posterous – Check out the slides and data from the American Red Cross's survey on Emergency Social Data! Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion." That’s how you learn practices.

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Participatory 132

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Bing Webmaster Tools :: bing.com/webmasters A free set of SEO, diagnostic, and reporting tools designed to improve your website’s rankings on Bing search results. The analytics tool evaluates the effectiveness of your posts and provides the best times to share your content. Websites & Email 1.

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Digital Marketing Tools Resource 335

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations. As a result, they invited the expert to develop more courses and saw an increase in learner enrollment and program revenue. Tracking Long-Term Impact True success for your learning programs can be found by evaluating their long-term impact.

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Analytics Education Program Impact 169

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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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Choosing the right price for your association’s services can deliver powerful results. Next, you’ll need to choose your survey tool, build your survey, and define your audience. You’ll need to ensure you tailor your demographic information to the survey and clearly define your payment terms. Watch now

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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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Measure Issue Impact Survey 143

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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Evaluation Software Program Strategy 62

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you think EI is a soft skill, one of those activities that requires maximum effort for minimum results, these statistics tell a different story. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Open Windows In July 2020,orgSource surveyed approximately 300 association executives. Netflix, number one on the list, is a good example of a company whose vision expanded as a result of an elevated purpose. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation. The response surprised me.

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Voice Associations Culture Environment 221

Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

So, let’s take a look at three areas where you can improve your peer-to-peer fundraising results: 1. Be sure to periodically re-evaluate your software platform to ensure it’s still meeting your needs. Survey responses. After each event or campaign, it’s a good idea to send participants a survey to capture their feedback.

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Results Fundraising Software Social Media 87

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is in part because Google Grants only allows ads that are at a Quality Score of 2 or higher and also because a strong website will just lead to better results for your Google Ad campaigns. Failing to meet this threshold for 2 consecutive months can result in a temporary account deactivation. Use Lots of Keywords.

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Google Grant Guide Nonprofit 327

NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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ROI Survey Attention Tech 65

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. Why get good at Excel?

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. This framing captured the impact not only of the technology tools of their partners, required by certain funders, but also of the access to information for migrants, which would be measurable on an ongoing basis through surveys.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation. Survey participants and incorporate their feedback.

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Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful.

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Public Action Challenge Learning 93

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 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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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Communicating Results. Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it.

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Resource Practice Data Work 107

sgEngage

JULY 30, 2024

How Math is the Solution Since 2019, CollegeAPP has surveyed Americans nationwide to identify adults who intend to pursue postsecondary education and training. Key Findings from Our Surveys Below are some additional findings from our work. Let me share more.

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Survey Student Education Classroom 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

One of the study’s authors, Mary Trudel, wrote a guest post back in 2011 summarizing the results. They are in the process of updating the study and have some preliminary results to share. This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011.

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Social Media Arts Social Media 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) What you think?

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Teach Help Los Angeles Wiki 110

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

The purpose of this post is to share the results of an interesting survey from the beginning of the event, as well as the great attendee follow-up Q&A. We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client.

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Data Management Rate Benchmark 133

Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul.

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Digital Strategy Nonprofit Phase 123

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

While the results may be a sobering wake up call, they can be just the push you need to strategically evaluate your real goals or pivot to a better investment of your organization’s time and money. Satisfaction score in post-event survey . Factors to consider measuring event success. P&L improvement. Fundraising success .

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ROI Measure Evaluation Money 62

Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

As part of Candid’s annual survey of foundation giving trends , i we posed two questions about generative AI: Have you received grant applications created by generative AI? Over half (57%) of survey participants said they didn’t know whether they’ve received grant applications created by generative AI. foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Train 113

Nimble AMS

JUNE 4, 2022

To gain further perspective on which goals your organization should set, you’ll need to evaluate the type of members you hope to recruit. Survey your members to understand their volunteer motivations and connect them to the best volunteer or advocacy options. . Use the results to personalize email reminders to members. .

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Associations Goal Technology Analytics 114

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Essentially, this is a folder of Word documents each containing answers to common grant application questions, like organization mission and activities, the greatest challenges our nonprofit faces, how we measure and evaluate program impact, how we recognize funders, etc. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity. Your Voice Matters!

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Grant New Hampshire Application Library 94

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership. The self-evaluation survey is free and it''s the first step in the program. Also free is a summary analysis of your results. A full reporting on your results costs $79.

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Summary Leadership Survey Evaluation 73

NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

NTEN''s Communities of Impact recently conducted a small survey (n=69) of nonprofit professionals asking how their organizations are engaging with data. We are now in the process of conducting follow-up surveys, and a few interesting insights have begun to emerge. COI communities of impact data Data survey IT Staff'

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Impact Data NTEN Community 87

Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Before beginning a full rebrand, it’s worth evaluating why your nonprofit is considering this in the first place. As such, part of the research process should include conducting a survey to understand how connected your audience feels to your nonprofit’s brand right now. Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change.

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Nonprofit Audience Library Research 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.” If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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