Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The main question will boil down to: ‘Did we make a difference?’” But the main question will boil down to: “Did we make a difference? A perhaps more ambitious metric, and certainly one more difficult to measure, will be the impact of local journalism grants on democracy and civic life itself in the United States.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Building from your theory of change, it is crucial for organizations to have a comprehensive, clear set of metrics (also called “indicators” in the social sector) that track inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes; all of these build evidence of your program’s effectiveness. How might you know whether this is the case? Data access. .

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. How do we measure social change? Matt will show us how. I think there are two key points to keep in mind here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. How net thriving teams can improve businesses, neighborhoods, and governments. Why career wellbeing is the foundation of the best possible life.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

To overcome these challenges, Candid, in coalition with a growing number of partners , set out to build a demographic data-led movement to meaningfully and measurably advance equity in the social sector. The question then becomes, what actions are we prepared to take? Watch the video clip “How do we work better with nonprofits?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. But is this the right question? Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data. Keep monitoring the growth with metrics (for example, decreased number of duplicates, increase in completion rate of certain fields.). For example, if you are hosting an in-person seminar ask the attendees to text questions to you (and give them an incentive to do it).

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue. With ever-shrinking budgets, many government entities have been forced to re-evaluate their resource allocations. Our field is not immune to such sweeping and increasingly prevalent cost reduction measures.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Not a whole lot is really known about Malcolm’s governing style, but it is clear he is very opposed to Macbeth for the whole killing of Duncan and Macduff’s family thing. The search bar allows you to type a question about your data like: “how many users came to the site last month?” Why UA Metrics won’t Match GA4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.    Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. But in the race to remain current, we can sometimes forget to take a step back and ask ourselves a few basic questions: How do we know if all our social media efforts are actually worth the investment? Simply Measured.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue. With ever-shrinking budgets, many government entities have been forced to re-evaluate their resource allocations. Our field is not immune to such sweeping and increasingly prevalent cost reduction measures.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Leaders at companies, global brands, nonprofits, and everyone in between are asking that important question: what is a purpose-driven company? The company still sells products with potentially questionable chemicals, sugary foods, and alcohol. Purpose-Driven Companies use a Purpose Mindset to Advance Measurable Goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

" When Communities Identify Their Own Poor, Aid Has The Most Effect | Fast Company – "When governments and NGOs plan on giving assistance to the most needy, how do they know who needs the most assistance? It can also help repressive governments watch and censor their citizens.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Essentially, an LMS is a software-based platform that enables efficient management and quick delivery of e-learning courses and programs and effective measurement of learning outcomes. Hence, always invest in an LMS that has data security measures in place. You would want your sensitive data to be protected against prying eyes.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Essentially, an LMS is a software-based platform that enables efficient management and quick delivery of e-learning courses and programs and effective measurement of learning outcomes. Hence, always invest in an LMS that has data security measures in place. You would want your sensitive data to be protected against prying eyes.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Essentially, an LMS is a software-based platform that enables efficient management and quick delivery of e-learning courses and programs and effective measurement of learning outcomes. Hence, always invest in an LMS that has data security measures in place. You would want your sensitive data to be protected against prying eyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. First, if you are not doing custom coding like the Einstein Bot , bots work best with close-choice questions that lead the user to more information or an action. Grassroots organizing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. If you start working on something in the year that doesn’t feed into this goal, then you need to question whether it’s worth doing. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. Fundraising Goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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BoardAssist

MAY 16, 2017

” In this week’s guest post Natalie McKeon of the Environmental Defense Fund offers a great answer to that question – help your nonprofit become more energy efficient and save them money at the same time. It’s important to have benchmark energy metrics so your organization can set attainable efficiency goals.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Eric says that the term being “driven” implies — “going out of your way to devalue experience, ignore process, and eschew established governance in favor of a new, entirely metrics-powered approach towards decision making. &#. He suggests a new term, “data informed.&#.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

So which is it: ineffective tool or tools that can topple governments? Yet, critics seem unduly preoccupied with tools and/or the use of metrics like open and click rates and contrast that with proven skills of movement building and civil disobedience. Managers need to make sure the right questions are being asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 4, 2021

We at Nonprofit Megaphone are here to share some of the most important questions you should ask yourself before applying for the grant: . Even if you don’t have prepared answers to these questions, Nonprofit Megaphone is here to help. Your organization is not a school, college, hospital, or government agency.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. With the budget issues that have faced the world, it’s a question people in many sectors, including in our own, have raised. Obviously, we can all picture a car.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics. Ask yourself some of the following questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

This has exposed nonprofit hospitals to additional scrutiny from a variety of critics who question their tax-exempt status. This, in turn, can attract more attention and more dollars from independent grantmaking foundations, government agencies, and individuals. Best-in-class community grantmaking programs have….

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Furthermore, greater than half of nonprofit boards (52 percent) serving clientele of 25 percent to 49 percent Hispanic also do not have any Latinos board members, according to The Urban Institute study, Nonprofit Governance in the United States: Findings on Performance and Accountability from the First National Representative Study.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Instead of getting a nod of understanding or an enthusiastic question about the mission of the organization, I got a blank stare and the response, “C…F…O…?” What to Look for in Your Modern CFO Here are the top six things to look for—and interview questions to ask—when hiring a modern CFO for your nonprofit.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Specifying goals and objectives Your project needs to have specific goals with metrics you can measure to show your success. Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project. Local government branches that work within your cause are also great resources for grants.

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