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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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. And, with that, it’s why you need to track data that tells you if your digital efforts are succeeding or if you need to tweak certain strategies. . How can these tools help you track meaningful data?

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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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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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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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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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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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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. Set realistic deadlines for each phase of your fundraising efforts to keep your team on track.

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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. Tracking for Impact and Learning. Their dashboard already did a great job at tracking impact metrics about the reach and size of their audience, but they wanted to go deeper in tracking engagement and taking action.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. One additional benefit is improved decision-making. Outcomes = Opportunity. And what do they want? And what do they want?

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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

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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. The data you gather should help you learn.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Keep in mind the costs of renting projection equipment, acquiring necessary permits, and ensuring safety measures are in place. Encourage local businesses to sponsor the event or donate supplies to help cover costs. Utilize social media and other digital tools to promote your fundraiser, track progress, and engage supporters.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

There is increasing demand for charities to provide evidence-based data on how many and how well people are being helped. Just like Idealware, we're interested at TechSoup in the tools of the trade to make it possible to track the right data, so that reporting on impact is accurate and defensible. It’s not very long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Also set up a system in advance so you can track the hashtag. The first step is to get organized. Rowfeeder is terrific for this.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

I got a call last week from the Advancement Services manager at a small college asking for help. In his blog post on evaluating fundraising programs, Measuring Success The Buffett Way , Jason McNeil asks What measures might Warren Buffett use to evaluate development effectiveness? One unhappy customer will tell ten others.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

I refer to this report fairly often because the summary points are such good reminders to all of us in the nonprofit sector (I’m interpreting a bit to use nonprofit terminology): Focus on your best donors. Now donors know how many people were helped and how much money was raised. You’ll see the difference. Definitely.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose. Often, the P&L is compared to the organization’s budget and/or the P&L of the previous period so performance can be tracked. . For example, let’s say you have a large annual gala.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The purpose is not only to affect and control change but also to help staff and stakeholders adapt to these changes. An effective change management plan (created in advance) alleviates these stress points to ensure a successful redesign by helping you manage changes both seen and unseen. In summary.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. We created this guide to help you build just that. Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Fundraising plan summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. This puts fundraisers in a position to prove donations made were used wisely, and help retain and uplevel funders.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2018

What you should already be tracking. Here’s a quick list of key information you’ll need to include on your Form 990 that should help you with budgeting moving forward: A concise summary of your mission. Identify the target demographic and track the results of each individual campaign. How will you measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure. I used simple measurement tools to collect data and further analyzed it in Excel spreadsheets. Social Proofing Helps Generate Donations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals. Use a CRM to help w ith donor research . Where did you find them?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Virtual volunteer opportunities are in high demand, allowing people to work from home to help your cause, so include those, too. Be clear on discipline measures and reasons for dismissal. Is there a media release?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? See this for Giving Day metrics to track your goals.). Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. It doesn’t help your cause to have people in your database that aren’t really there. Track your supporters’ actions to know who you should target for which actions and when.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. What people in the room were most hungry for were tips and steps on listening and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Benefits of Effective Credit Card Processing for Nonprofits Like any other part of the fundraising process, credit card processing that’s done in an efficient, donor-friendly, and secure manner will help you build better relationships with your donors over the long term. This is an area where checking out user reviews can help.

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