Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 18, 2010

Is ROI limiting our community impact? ’s focus on community, the idea of ROI doesn’t make sense. If we are after impact, we have to reevaluate the way we approach evaluation! ROI asks how many staff and how many hours; ROE asks how many posts, updates, replies or individual responses. Then or now.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy.

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The Sponsorship Collective

JULY 24, 2024

Before you dive in, if you want to know how to calculate sponsorship value, check out these titles in our “sponsorship valuation” series: Sponsorship ROI Metrics: Approaches to Measurement and Evaluation Tangible vs. Intangible Sponsorship Benefits Defined Seven Sponsorship Valuation Questions: Part One Seven Sponsorship Valuation Questions: Part Two (..)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Innovative colleges and universities, including USC , Stanford, Purdue, Rutgers, Michigan State, UPenn, and Notre Dame have recently implemented the Salesforce platform to help modernize their fundraising, personalize engagement, and conduct AI-powered research and reporting to inform strategy and measure ROI. Purdue Increases Productivity.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Use this guide to help evaluate whether a streamlined software solution that manages your nonprofit’s core activities—such as accounting, CRM, and fundraising—will offer a good return on investment and enable you to maximize your impact on the communities you serve. Is your nonprofit seeking to increase efficiency and build capacity?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

ROI is usually shown as a percentage calculated by dividing the net profit or loss by the initial cost. Often, in fundraising, people would like to know the ROI of various ways of raising money. What’s the ROI, for example, of your annual gala? Capital Campaigns and ROI. How do you determine your capital campaign’s ROI?

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. Your marketing and competition analysis should clearly display marketing and advertising channels that have given you the best ROI. Now you see your ROI and who your customer is.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

And if you don’t measure your ROI, you’ll never know if you’re actually making money or if you’d be better off focusing on more lucrative and less time-consuming strategies. . Here are a few things to do when thinking about your events and their ROI. Are there other ways you can raise the same money with less expense and greater ROI?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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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. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. In terms of ROI, social media has grown our email file and we’ve raised significant money on social networks. Re-evaluating our Facebook strategy. What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This data is a goldmine for organizations looking to: Evaluate the effectiveness of their training programs. Justify the return on investment (ROI) of L&D initiatives. Measuring ROI on Training Programs One of the most important benefits of LMS data analytics is its ability to measure the ROI of training programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. Admittedly, we started without a strong strategy in place, but it also gave WITNESS the opportunity to assess and evaluate better usage for these platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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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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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. This guide will look at four transformational fundraising strategies for increasing your nonprofit’s ROI from its event marketing outreach. When you spend time and money marketing to people who are unlikely to attend your event, your ROI will inevitably take a hit.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Each night, an automated flow looks for new gifts, evaluates the language preference of the donor, and adds a gift attribute indicating the language to be used for the acknowledgment letter. Estimating the ROI of Extensibility Projects. The workaround the team came up with took a lot of staff time and was inefficient and inconsistent.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Fundraising ROI What It Is : The return on investment for your fundraising activities, showing how much revenue your efforts generate relative to the costs involved. Why It Matters : ROI reveals whether your campaigns are worth the time and money youre investing. Compare DAC across different channels (e.g.,

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As you rethink your pricing strategy, youll want to evaluate using pricing discounts as a helpful tool in attracting new members to your association, increasing overall traffic, building member loyalty, and selling large quantities of products. Understanding your objectives will help you effectively launch your discount campaign.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Investing in strategic email marketing can amplify your fundraising return on investment (ROI), engage supporters personally, and rally even more people to champion your mission. High ROI: Email marketing is a cost-effective way to stay in touch with supporters. Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time. Which assets are most of our partners leveraging and finding value in?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the help of Shutterstock’s events and marketing teams, Reynolds and Deeran figured out ways to create processes internally and saw ROI from the channel go up dramatically. Meanwhile, Reynolds and Deeran are approaching the company’s growth in three phases: exploration, execution and evaluation.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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ROI Training Train Practice 52

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Measuring the ROI of eLearning: A Guide for Businesses GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Businesses care about ROI. ROI, or Return on Investment, measures performance and gauges the efficiency of an investment. What Is eLearning ROI? 10 Steps to Understand eLearning ROI 1.Understanding When Should You Do It?

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Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Measuring the ROI of eLearning: A Guide for Businesses GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Businesses care about ROI. ROI, or Return on Investment, measures performance and gauges the efficiency of an investment. What Is eLearning ROI? 10 Steps to Understand eLearning ROI 1.Understanding When Should You Do It?

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Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Measuring the ROI of eLearning: A Guide for Businesses Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Businesses care about ROI. ROI, or Return on Investment, measures performance and gauges the efficiency of an investment. What Is eLearning ROI? 10 Steps to Understand eLearning ROI 1.Understanding

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. These include advanced reporting, evaluations, and gap analysis. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s clear is that a nonprofit’s resilience requires regular evaluation of its technology stack, the cost of letting antiquated systems linger is too great in the midst of a turbulent macro and micro environment. But how should a nonprofit approach evaluating their technology? Another key component is focus.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why increasing your return on investment (ROI) in all areas of your operations is critical, especially for your nonprofits website. With that in mind, lets explore key tips to understand and increase your nonprofit websites ROI. Lets explore ways to enhance these features to create a better online experience that drives ROI.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While digital health has captivated the attention of investors and received validation from consumers, providers and healthcare stakeholders, early-stage entrepreneurs are being required to address the highly complicated yet mission-critical question: How can I show value and ROI?

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Evaluate Compliance-Specific Features Once compliance needs are defined, organizations should focus on evaluating LMS platforms based on their compliance-specific features. Organizations should evaluate the user management capabilities of potential LMS platforms. Evaluate employee performance and engagement.

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