Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In an era of rapid change, when teams look to leaders for stability and direction, trust is the invisible currency that fuels organizational success. Here are a few insights: Empower your team. This not only boosts their engagement but also aligns their objectives with the broader goals of the organization.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

I hope that you smashed your goals and are currently basking in the glow of knowing that you’ll be making an even bigger impact in 2022. . In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . So, ask yourself : What was your original fundraising goal? Goals and metrics .

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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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Forum One

JANUARY 28, 2025

We call these big, beautiful, but often distracting numbers vanity metrics high-level data points that dont point to actual performance and its important to know the appropriate time and place to use them. Stakeholders at nonprofit and government organizations are often on the hunt for the biggest numbers.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind. Creating your unique product requires a dedicated team with the appropriate skills. During implementation, your team will need to manage and execute multiple integration pieces.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

If data is saved on a team member’s personal drive, or worse, doesn’t exist at all, your association’s data is not going to be accessible when you need it. Set up your KPI and metrics! This blog post provides additional recommendations for creating key metrics that align with your strategic objectives. Sound familiar?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, marketing teams were facing an uphill battle to prove ROI as new digital marketing opportunities, like the rise of video content marketing and the shift towards mobile, led to changing tactics, and budgets came under more scrutiny. Now, a decade later, human resources teams are facing similar circumstances.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success, lets look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. You will have the elements to translate between and marry the business metrics that ROI measured and your mission impact criteria.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

1) Set Your Goals. First, you need to determine your key goals for the event and include them in your checklist. These goals will help you plan your event with a specific objective and fundraising target in mind. Ask yourself these questions to set effective goals: What is the purpose of the event? 2) Create a Budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

Does it still reflect your mission, purpose, strategic goals, and the ways your audiences use the internet? The Race Forward communications team constantly revisits their strategies in search for more resonant messages and new opportunities for engagement. Race Forward’s merger led the organization to invest in an in-house web team. “We

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Suddenly, digital transformation wasn’t just an aspirational goal; it was a mission-critical investment. Did you complete all your ambitious digitalization goals? Perhaps you’re already having conversations with your team about how you can begin on the path to digital transformation. And they needed to do it right away.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

This blog post will break down the essential steps for aligning KPIs with strategic goals and designing dashboards to monitor and share performance. Let’s break down three steps to aligning your strategic plan with tangible goals and designing dashboards that can help you monitor and share performance across your association and beyond.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By doing some homework upfront, you ensure that the agency can hit the ground running and deliver a final product that truly reflects your organizations values, goals, and community needs. Define Clear Goals and KPIs A great website is more than a pretty faceits built to achieve specific objectives.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 3, 2025

What goals would such AI systems have? Summary We first review the training architecture and capabilities of a hypothetical future "Agent-3," to give us a concrete setup to talk about for which goals will arise. Then, we walk through the following hypotheses about what goals/values/principles/etc. via a system prompt ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Uncover the step-by-step process of defining goals, selecting prompts, implementing initiatives, and measuring impact in this comprehensive guide. Define Your Goals : Begin by outlining your organization’s goals for leveraging ChatGPT. Monitor metrics such as engagement rates, content reach, and donor response.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs. Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. It helps them know if they are using time and resources wisely.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ensure your association celebrates GivingTuesday 2024 and meets your fundraising goals too. Become data driven Use your organization’s data to determine if you’re on track to hit your current fundraising goal. Share why their gifts are important, what goals your organization is trying to reach, and include any donation metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters. Define your metrics of success. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics. News & World Report metric of alumni participation , the impact of this ranking indicator is going to show in our data for years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Software founders have never had so many metrics thrown at them by VCs on how to run a business. We’ve never believed that great businesses are built solely on metrics or KPIs. What’s the goal of the journey from Series A to Series B? It’s helpful to have that goal in mind when planning your spending and team structure.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Gifts from prospects on the top of your giving pyramid are necessary to meet your campaign goal. Review reporting. Add data health tools.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If no one on your team combines the skills of a hand-holder, diplomate, ambassador, influencer, and adept translator of member-speak, it may be time to consider hiring a chief experience officer. Prioritizes outcomes—views customer satisfaction as the significant metric of success. Isn’t that a CMO’s job?

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Align learning initiatives with broader business goals. This data can help L&D teams identify which courses are engaging employees and which might need adjustments. These insights can help L&D teams understand which aspects of the training are resonating with employees and which might need enhancement.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Invite your investment team to explain your organization’s allocation and risk strategies and investment reports. Explain how both documents reflect organizational priorities, goals, and objectives. Be sure to allow time for questions. Ask fundraising or deferred giving experts to discuss estate planning. Online courses.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds. Pick a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) that is clear, measurable, and accountable. Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

The willingness to scrutinize performance on an ongoing basis begins with the board and the management team. A dip in numbers is an opportunity for teams to respond quickly to rising issues or challenges. These integrated teams work across the organization and are important to moving quickly and effectively. The Association 4.0

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Periodic technology assessments guarantee that those resources are in good order to deliver on the ambitious goals you’ve set. The objective is to identify strengths and weaknesses and make recommendations for improvements that advance your strategic goals. Be Yourself Every group has unique needs and goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. Improve collaboration : social media should be a team effort. Having a content calendar that everyone can access, will not only show the rest of your team what you’re working on but also give them the opportunity to contribute.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics. When we refer to products here, we are talking about products, services and content.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 8, 2023

We examine which team structures are the best suited for efficiently improving data quality. Some teams view data quality mainly as a technical challenge while others look at it as a business or process problem. Data leaders need to understand how each team and capability fits together. Specialists or generalists?

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 17, 2023

Data teams are more important than ever before — but they need to get closer to the business. Over the past decade, data teams have been simultaneously underwater and riding a wave. For data teams, the bill has come due. But becoming “data-driven” is an opaque goal with vague metrics and no clear ROI.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. Be sure to define your organization’s goals for the online community so that your entire organization knows what you’re trying to accomplish. For example, at the highest level, your goals might be to: Grow your existing online community . TIP: These are examples of high-level goals.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Strategic Goal – describe a goal for improving results in each of your business areas. These could be qualitative or specific metrics or KPIs. The Collective Power: Analytics Benefits Everyone Unified Goals and Amplification: Analytics isn’t just beneficial for one team; it’s a benefit for all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. Setting a monthly goal of recommending two current or previous co-workers, partners, and funders will result in your staff receiving more recommendations in return.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

At the will of ever-changing, inequitable user review processes, performance metrics and opaque algorithms, one thing is clear: Workers are grappling with invisible digital overlords, just to make enough to scrape by. Id encourage platforms and companies to step back and ask: What is the goal of this evaluation process?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. The way you set up your dashboards and reports will depend on multiple factors, including your data analysis goals and what data you need to inform your analysis. Analyze during the campaign.

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