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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How to Measure: Use metrics like sponsorship revenue growth, cost of acquisition, and renewal rates to evaluate which partnerships are delivering the best financial returns. Create an action plan: Choose one area to explore, set up financial metrics, and implement the plan. Analyze revenue against any associated costs (e.g.,

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Bloomerang

APRIL 18, 2025

A Stanford Social Innovation Review study found that nonprofits that tell engaging stories raise twice as much money on average as those that dont.( A strong visual hierarchy guides the viewers eye and ensures the most important information stands out. If you have a brand guide, now is the time to use it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. 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. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

However, many nonprofits lack these important guiding strategies. In this quick guide, we’ll explain the crucial steps your team needs to take to build your fundraising plan. Review your donor profiles and marketing engagement analytics to determine your target audience’s preferred communication platforms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Let’s see what engagement metrics gain the most significant interest from investors. Engagement over long periods at the end of a subscription There are many engagement metrics to look at. The obvious metric to review is how often your user opens the app toward the end of the period in question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

For social media content, focus on metrics like likes, shares, comments, click-through rates, and follower growth. Whether it’s increasing donations, volunteer sign-ups, or brand awareness, having clear objectives will guide your efforts. In influencer campaigns, measure reach and impressions.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Lets review proven tips for creating more inspirational CTAs and transforming your supporters passion into action. Review the WCAG standards to ensure your digital buttons and CTA content are perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Strategically craft your CTA language.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Identify the key metrics you’ll use to measure your goals. Start by reviewing each of your strategic goals and identifying the key metrics you can use to measure progress against those goals. Most likely, you’ll have more than one metric for each goal. Step 1: Create a master list of all your metrics.

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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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Wired

MARCH 20, 2025

A svelte smart ring can track important health metrics and doesn't need to be charged every day.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Resonates with donor interests: Understanding what aligns (and what doesn’t) with your donors’ interests can guide when to and what to ask for. Crafting the Perfect Pitch AI can help you prep the ask by reviewing what worked in the past. Request too much and you risk donors feeling overwhelmed or pressured.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We understand how marketing and technology go hand-in-hand, and throughout this guide, we will focus on how to apply nonprofit marketing best practices using your organizations technology. Ask for testimonials and reviews. That means your nonprofit faces a lot of competition in its quest to earn support.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. But first, let’s review a few online fundraising basics. To do this, start by reviewing your revenue goals for your online fundraising platforms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s about going beyond superficial engagement metrics to truly grasp what an audience cares about, what questions they want answers to, and what inspires them to take action. This article walks through seven tips. Creating ideas for LinkedIn posts derived from an article’s content.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover how nonprofits can leverage their donor management software as well as how your organization can find the best solution to solve your most pressing needs. Similar to the engagement meter, a generosity score also provides an at-a-glance view of an important supporter metric. Fundraising metrics.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A series of events (Black Friday, the holidays, CES) pushed this review onto the back burner, which means I spent a lot of time with the watch in a less formal capacity, wearing it on and off for around three months before formally evaluating it for this review. Two new colors, green and cream, add to the silver hue from last year.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

I wrote a book called, No More Status Quo: A Proven Framework to Change the Way We Change the World , which is essentially a field guide for how to navigate uncertainty, most efficiently and effectively. Funding constraints and grant dependency further exacerbate these issues. Innovation is a nebulous word with different meanings.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this sense, impact metrics are the specific measures of the positive and negative effects of an intervention, action, or project on individuals, communities, or the environment. In this guide, we’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about nonprofit impact metrics, including: . Why Are Impact Metrics Important?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Here’s a detailed guide to executing the recruitment basics effectively: Expand your horizons. Step 5: Measure and celebrate board successes In addition to implementing a strategic recruitment process, it’s crucial to define success metrics that align with your organization’s goals. We’d love to hear from you!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the need-to-know information and steps of creating a major gift fundraising strategy, including: What is a major gift? 7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

This post is designed to guide your organization through the nonprofit annual report creation process. Review these strategies for keeping your report centered on your supporter community: Consider your audience. Create visuals to feature important metrics and information. Create a donor-centric nonprofit annual report.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Here’s everything we’ll cover in this guide. Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 2, 2023

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building an Effective Data Quality Strategy from Scratch How to build an interpretable data quality framework based on user expectations Photo by Rémi Müller on Unsplash As data engineers, we are (or should be) responsible for the quality of the data we provide. Incident log for month and by data quality dimension.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into the different types of peer-to-peer fundraising and how nonprofits can leverage this strategy to maximize revenue. . Track key campaign metrics. Directly after the campaign, build a report of the key metrics that determine your campaign’s success. . A Guide to Donor Retention.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

This guide will walk you through the top ways you can leverage donor data in your communications with the help of fundraising tools. To help provide a clearer picture, let’s review the common tools that nonprofit utilize and the key data it can help you collect: Online donation forms. Let’s learn more! Email tools.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this buyer’s guide, we’ll cover everything you need to find the right fundraising software for your organization’s needs. Here’s a quick overview of some of the most useful marketing platforms: Email marketing platforms allow you to schedule email campaigns in advance, segment your subscribers, and measure email marketing metrics.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

Make sure you’ve got your analytics set up and you have numbers ready to show for important metrics like downloads, revenue and daily active users. A code review for quality assurance might also help and ease the doubts of some of the more skeptical buyers. You want to make it a no-brainer by providing all the information up front.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

This morning G2 , a company that provides an online software review and information database, announced that it has raised a $157 million Series D. They provide a guide of sorts to various software niches, not only exposing a number of competing services in a single space, but also some signal about what service might be a good pick.

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.orgSource

APRIL 25, 2023

You learn a lot about consumer preferences by reading the reviews on Yelp. Review the Data I asked Sarah how she advises employers to approach this challenging environment. When my clients need to make important decisions, I always recommend that they use data to guide their thinking. Begin with the data,” Sarah responded.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement. These metrics tell you how many of your members have joined the online community and how many are using it. Read the guide. For example:?How

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore everything you need to know about donor databases to help you choose the right solution for your nonprofit. A donor database is a software solution that nonprofit professionals use to access insights into their supporters’ engagement histories, track key fundraising metrics, and measure success.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To help incorporate direct mail into your marketing plan or elevate your current direct response fundraising approach, this guide will walk through several strategies for honing your outreach. Clean layout: An organized design guides readers through the content. Together, these elements will guide your donors through your outreach.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn. 6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn. Zach Aarons, co-founder and general partner, MetaProp.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling, in which you’ll explore the following points: The Importance of Storytelling for Nonprofits. Track specific metrics related to how well your story is received by supporters, such as: Open Rate: How many supporters open your email or text communications?

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