Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2021

The key to building a digital strategy that works is DATA. When you align your organization’s goals with the right social media strategies, you’ll start to see instant results! In this session, I’ll guide you through a DIY Social Media Audit to leverage your online data to attract new donors or accomplish any goal!

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes 5 Fundraising Metrics Every Nonprofit Should Track This Year In todays data-driven world, you cant afford to guess whats working and whats not in your fundraising efforts. Tracking the right metrics helps you understand your impact, refine your strategies, and maximize your resources.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ive conducted some myself, including work on how trust is essential for leaders in cross-cultural business environments. This not only boosts their engagement but also aligns their objectives with the broader goals of the organization. Those practices can create a psychologically safe and supportive work environment.

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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. . However, your work isn’t done yet! 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?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Encourage Data Literacy Across Teams : Provide training on data interpretation so that all teams feel comfortable using insights to guide their work. Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) : Define and track KPIs that align with your strategic goals, such as member engagement, retention, and satisfaction metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in creating visually appealing graphics and videos that showcase your work. Here’s how to make it work for you: Identify Relevant Influencers : Find influencers within your niche who are passionate about your cause. Tools like Canva and Adobe Spark offer free templates and editing options to make this process easier.

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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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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. ROM provides accessible means to help put a term to how many, if not most, in our sector approach their work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

So whether youre counting calories, trying new workouts, or simply trying to move a little more, these free tools are here to help you reach your goals. The free version offers basic calorie and exercise tracking, while the paid version includes advanced features like meal plans, macronutrient goals by gram, and an ad-free experience.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. The less focused your nonprofit is, the less likely you are to achieve your goals because the organization is spread too thin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2020

Any time you see an impressive Google Grant case study , the metrics are always made possible through conversion tracking. . Once this is in place, you can set up different types of goals in Google Analytics: . Destination goals are triggered when someone reaches a specific page on your website. What is Conversion Tracking?

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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? As communications director Melissa Franqui explains, “Any communications department, not only ours, has to be continuously asking, is the site communicating our mission, our current work, and our values to our intended audiences?”.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Fundraising emails play a key role in informing your audience about your campaigns purpose, goals, and how they can show their support. Monitor email metrics such as open and clickthrough rates to determine how frequently supporters open your emails. Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

8: Your Organization Doesn’t Have KPIs and Metrics Challenge : Without key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics, your organization is missing out on vital information about your members. Set up your KPI and metrics! If your KPIs and metrics aren’t set up properly, what you do pull could vary tremendously over time.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Amazon is expanding an existing program that gamifies warehouse work to encourage its fulfillment center employees to improve their efficiency and compete against others for digital rewards like virtual pets, according to a new report from The Information. The ultimate goal is ostensibly to eliminate the most repetitive and dangerous jobs.

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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. Third parties are able to staff with top experts that can deliver the work and provide consultation before, during and after implementation. Implementing a new software solution is a huge project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with clean, streamlined donor records that record donations from your online forms and update automatically , an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. Winter 2022-2023.

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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? Your strategy should align with your overall goals, cater to your audience, and focus on the outcomes you’re aiming for. And they needed to do it right away.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

As valuable as data is, though, without a clear and actionable way to track and report across your entire association, it can be difficult to tell what’s actually working. This blog post will break down the essential steps for aligning KPIs with strategic goals and designing dashboards to monitor and share performance.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measuring training effectiveness is important for organizations to see if their training programs are working well for their employees. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs. It helps them know if they are using time and resources wisely.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

We work hard to transform basic input into high-quality data. 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. Review reporting. Fine-tune your fund setup. Add data health tools.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2009, when I worked at Gaps newly formed digital division, the finance team set benchmarks for success in e-commerce. There were a lot of conversations around the right metrics to track, which gave us a say in how to measure our results. Along with the pressure, that limelight also brought opportunity. This was crucial at the time.

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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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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. Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve. Pick a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) that is clear, measurable, and accountable.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Preparing to Work with a Nonprofit Design Agency Before you hand off your project to a design agency, it helps to put your own ducks in a row. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 12, 2020

You can highlight where the donation is going or show how close you are from reaching your goal. For example, the Great Ormond Street Hospital’s newsletter not only includes news about their work, but also upcoming fundraising events, and an inspiring spotlight story. It skews your email marketing metrics. What can you do?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Here at Bloomerang Volunteer , we’ve had the privilege of working with dozens of nonprofits during their event planning processes. 1) Set Your Goals. First, you need to determine your key goals for the event and include them in your checklist. Party, dinner, casual get-together, conference ) What is our goal for the event?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 For example: 1.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

According to Salesforces Nonprofit Trend Report , digitally mature nonprofits are 4x more likely than their peers to achieve their mission goals. The need for strategic and adequate technology investments is especially urgent for small grassroots organizations working to scale positive incomes in under-resourced communities.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

I’m not talking about so-called engagement metrics like “clicks,” “likes,” and “follows” (what the Agitator-DonorVoice gurus call the empty calories of fundraising/marketing). Put this into a written plan, with goals, objectives, and who/what/when/where/how strategies and tactics. Begin thinking of donors as beneficiaries too.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2025

That means designing campaigns and content that meet your audience where they are, whether theyre just discovering your work or showing up again and again to create change alongside you. What it looks like: Growth in key metrics YoY: more web traffic, more actions, more donors, more email subscribers, more clicks, more views, etc.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2025

For beginners, your success metrics and key performance indicators can provide essential direction. Each award category provides example proof points to guide you on metrics to share. Additionally, incorporating a tone of collaboration into your nomination helps us understand how teams worked together to achieve a project or goal.

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Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Which Event Formats Work Best? Event Goals and Objectives Next, consider your event goals and objectives. Your event can cover one or more of these goals. Depending on what you choose, identify which format best supports those goals. Many considerations go into deciding between in-person, virtual, or hybrid events.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 1, 2025

Quick donation wins feel greatbut if you want to meet your fundraising goals year after year, you need more than a viral moment. We use the Funnel of Engagement to map how someone goes from hearing about your work to becoming a loyal, long-term donor. AWARE: Attracting New Donor Prospects Your goal: Get on their radar.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Photos and videos in particular are a great way to give your stakeholders a direct look into your organization’s day-to-day work.

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