Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Are any of these measurable? Along with the questionnaire, send a Branding Word Exercise that will help your design or marketing firm to understand the desired feelings to associate with the new brand. This will help your organization weigh the pros and cons of each option and determine which ones will serve your constituents best.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

This is where he found a unique opportunity to help associations determine how to price their products/services. You might know that your members need help with something in particular, but chances are what your members have needed for the last year is drastically different than what they needed the year prior.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Like climbing a mountain, it helps to have a path to follow to reach its summit, or in this case, a map of sorts to guide you to your desired destination—a compelling proposal that unlocks funding to advance your mission-driven work. A brief description of the project, including your goals and objectives.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

If you aren’t measuring donor engagement, you might have to. Donor engagement is a measure of all of the things that make up a complete donor profile, beyond just gift size and superficial demographic information. How Measuring Donor Engagement Can Empower You. See How Bloomerang Can Help You Measure Donor Engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It will also help them build better relationships with major donors and their broader donor base. Predictive analytics helps organizations expect donor behavior. AI tools help organizations find the best fundraising targets. They also help tailor campaigns to specific donor segments. Nonprofits can embrace AI.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To make it easier, we’ve organized the components of a nonprofit business plan into three categories based on your responsibilities: Board Support and Guidance Vision and Values Alignment Financial and Resource Planning Executive Summary: A brief overview of the nonprofit’s mission, goals, and strategies.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’ll do our best to make this as clear as possible, but some technical background is going to be helpful here. We recommend that you enable Enhanced Measurement Events, which track additional events plus additional parameters on some standard, default events. Enable Enhanced Measurement for eCommerce.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. How can these tools help you track meaningful data? To get a better grasp on this, let’s look at the different types of analytics and what they measure. My boss asked me to explore this further.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

US charities of almost every size (although especially the 50% with budgets $50,000 or less) complain of tremendous resource scarcity as they try to help solve some of our world’s most pressing problems. So how can you build a system to measure outcome indicators and focus on your mission, if there is no funding to do so?

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

While these changes may feel overwhelming, there are easy things you can do with your current staff and set of resources that will help position your association to thrive in 2024. You should be able to observe data points that help to fill in gaps such as years in the profession, years as a member, and member types.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduces guidelines on how nonprofits should handle grants and contracts, and these updates help nonprofits report their finances accurately and in a standard manner. Regular training for staff on the nuances of fund accounting can also help prevent misunderstandings and ensure compliance.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

With election day coming right up, Nonprofit VOTE was kind enough to share with us a bunch of ways technology can help you cast your ballot. We're big supporters of democracy here at NTEN, so we encourage you to use all the tools at your disposal to help you make your decision and get it counted.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Shakespearean answer : If the topic of Google Analytics and all things web tracking feels like a foreign language and you’re more of a theatre person here is a quick Shakespearean summary of what is going on. For a non-Shakespearean summary here is what is happening with the UA deprecation and how to plan. . analytics.js). .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Fundraising is a strategic tool you can leverage to expand impact, and using an all-in-one giving platform can streamline your efforts, enhance donor engagement, and ultimately help you secure the resources needed to achieve your mission. Rally volunteers to help with event logistics and foster a deeper connection with your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement. What should participants each measure for their individual campaigns?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The values of your organization help you to write your vision, which your mission, objectives, and KPIs will then then aim to accomplish. . This is the fundamental purpose of the organization-defined goal that helps you to reach the vision. Again, this should be a short, memorable summary of your goals and purpose.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Nonprofits need funding to carry out their mission, but by conforming to funder expectations, nonprofits may spend less on themselves, which will not help them serve those that need help. Each of these stakeholders then perpetuate the idea that nonprofits use a small fraction of income to run properly. Nonprofits.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

Decide if you plan on measuring employee engagement, satisfaction, motivation, or performance so you can have a clear indicator of success. What perks could help support you professionally? . After you receive any feedback from your staff, consider hosting a company town hall to communicate a brief summary of the results.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Based on those themes Sargeant and Shang compiled a list of 32 recommendations to help guide the nonprofit industry in growing philanthropy in the coming years. Re-orient toward longer-term measures of fundraising performance. Develop new and more appropriate measures of performance. Develop the self-regulation of fundraising.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

By every measure, an in-person ask provides the most bang for the buck. 10: Not following up on the meeting ASAP with both an email summary and handwritten thank you note. It also reinforces the verbal summary provided at the end of the meeting and leaves no question as to expectations and next steps. Blunder No.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2011

MFGII summary findings Nov 2011. The study points out that nonprofits can increase their fundraising and improve operations through an intentional focus on measurement – that helps them determine impact, effectiveness, and efficiency. MFGII summary findings Nov 2011 View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I can’t help to think we share the blame. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. In summary, don’t be fooled by the face value of open and click-through rates (the same could be said for fundraising, but more on that a little later).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

If your nonprofit wants to up its Twitter game in 2018, here is a summary: Tweet Storms and Threads: Twitter announced the launch of a new feature in December help users more easily post Tweetstorms – a series of related tweets posted by a Twitter user in quick succession, in order to share longer thoughts.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To help you figure out your goal and audience, answer the following questions: Why do you want to start a WordPress site? Make sure that it’s visually appealing and provides a summary of your nonprofit’s mission. This metric measures the overall visits to your site, helping you gauge the success of your outreach efforts.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Kyle Gregory is CEO/Co-Founder of Give Back Nation , a nonprofit serving other nonprofits with vetted tools, knowledge, coaching, strategy, implementation, and concierge support to help maximize efficiency, increase fundraising, and expand impact across the country. DBA’s can help correct a poor name choice made prior.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might be helpful to share our observations. We’ll summarize a few key takeaways and point to some resources that might be helpful as you think through the impact of this technology. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Understanding the different use cases and donation levels of each organization will help its development staff tailor donor appreciation gifts effectively. The plaque can include more than just their name–if they helped fund a specific building or program, you can include imagery that represents their contribution.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

To help nonprofits understand the tools available to them and how they can be incorporated into their digital strategies , this guide will explore three uses of modern nonprofit technology. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, software solutions can help reduce your staff’s stress and streamline their workload by automating processes and providing a centralized place for managing different campaigns and communications. Nonprofit software is software that helps you increase your organization’s efficiency and impact on your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. Reflecting on these nonprofit marketing pillars, your mission, and your goals for the campaign will help you craft a plan that is detailed, realistic, and, above all, relevant to your organization and its supporters. Conducting user research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

And here’s a summary of the research that proves it. Here’s a summary of the research cited in the book: Toxic workplaces are taking a toll on our physical and mental health. Overwork and stress can lead to burnout and depression and that can lead to even bigger problems. This is a first step towards change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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