Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Individual pledge commitments or reports on pledged revenue by date, campaign, or program can be tracked easily. Finally, Bloomerang utilizes the Ahern Audit which measures usage of “you” versus “I” as well as reading level to ensure optimum engagement with your content. 3) Little Green Light :: littlegreenlight.com.

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

You’ve been told over and over about the importance of nonprofit social media marketing, but measuring ROI can be difficult. Here, your ROI is easily measured with the all important email address. Try starting a petition, pledge, or call-to-action that helps a greater good connected with your nonprofit.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. However, this delay is important, too, for pledges do not always equal final payments.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Scott is a member of the Giving Pledge. When she signed the pledge she said: “ I have a disproportionate amount of money to share. Despite its name, the pledge is not legally binding. . My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care. But I won’t wait.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

Remember how many corporations and nonprofits hopped on that bandwagon, pledging to do better with racial equality? Well, some really nice person on the internet compiled the list of Fortune 100 Companies, the concrete actions they wanted to take, and what, if anything, has come from their pledges here. . Remember black out Tuesday?

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2023

Recently we interviewed Abdul Dosunmu, campaign manager for the Donors of Color Network’s (DOCN) Climate Funders Justice Pledge , one of the intermediaries featured in the guide. Hear Dosunmu discuss key elements of the Pledge and why DOCN chose climate philanthropy as the place to begin building a movement for racial equity. “We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Download this Board of Directors Fundraising Worksheet to help your board members execute their board pledges to raise or give donations.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Most importantly, we saw that hundreds of players went on to sign our pledge to be vegan or to order our free vegetarian/vegan starter kit. How should other organizations measure the success of their gaming efforts? We also measure how many players go on to take a meaningful action for animals. Want to hear more from Joel?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jolkona partnered with the Seattle International Foundation (SIF), which pledged to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. Starting July 26th, Groupon Seattle’s G-Team allowed subscribers to join Jolkona and SIF in making an investment in women’s leadership by pledging support in increments of $10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

We’re trying to understand what continues work and what doesn’t and evolve practice. You need to be nimble and not blindly follow a template because it worked in the past. Measurement and learning are now more important than ever for success. And, that is how they measure success. This advice still holds true.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Why is your mission important, who is being benefited, and what is your foundation doing to measurably achieve it’s mission? Going to a site with the intention of donating, can be intimidating if supporters can only pledge a recurring monthly amount, or if the default amount is set to a high price.

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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. What are the right tools to help measure success? Measure program success, not just analytics. If your goal is to get countries to pledge to wipe out poverty, then your social media clickthroughs are just a means to an end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

These action types include: join, pledge, answer, sign, give and a range of other actions people can take to help their favorite nonprofits. 6. How should they think about measurement of successful strategy? Eventually we plan to power this kind of measurement and data analysis no matter where you run your campaigns.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. as measured by total giving. private and community foundations.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 11, 2021

pledge payments) may get deposited into different bank accounts that may be listed separately on financial reports. Standard accounting principles for nonprofits hold that pledges should be recorded as revenue at the time the pledge commitment is made (i.e., Cash gifts and other cash received (e.g.,

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Most importantly, we saw that hundreds of players went on to sign our pledge to be vegan or to order our free vegetarian/vegan starter kit. How should other organizations measure the success of their gaming efforts? We also measure how many players go on to take a meaningful action for animals. Want to hear more from Joel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Then, make a few sample pledges and send them out as examples for people to join. Experiment, measure , experiment, measure…your first #hashtag campaign will not be perfect, or your second. By the way, your supporters don’t actually need to use their Twitter account to give each time a #hashtag is mentioned on Twitter.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2022

I can see a case for both, depending on what you want to measure, but ideally I just want to know how to compare apples to apples so we can know how we’re doing. That revenue includes your gross fundraising revenue and the pledges committed for that specific 12-month period. What to measure. — Stats Nerd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Friends at organizations like charity: water , Pencils of Promise , and Facebook Causes are sharing the idea with their communities, and Acumen Fund has pledged to get involved by encouraging its community to participate too. The Point of Pilots: Measure, Learn, Reiterate. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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Candid

JULY 15, 2024

Since the COF pledge, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has been monitoring whether funders have maintained these commitments to reduce grantee burden. In fact, these were strategies that many in the sector had been building evidence to support for years. However, there remain areas to monitor for additional progress.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

It’s not too late to pledge your support for our work. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what our users create with our products. As we look forward to 2015, we recognize that much work remains to be done, and we definitely need your continued support. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

Note From Beth: Last month, I did a webinar for the SalesForce Foundation on measuring social media. From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to the donation cycle from pledge to payment.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 12, 2023

Use Your Event Budget for ROI measures. Your fundraising event will most likely have several goals, but let’s focus on the ones that are measurable. Whatever it is, you should have specific ROI measures in place for each goal. You can measure by impressions or media mentions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on.

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CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

Create Teams of Different Pledge Classes Now, let’s talk about a secret ingredient that can make your capital campaign soar: the power of friendly competition within your own ranks. By creating teams based on different pledge classes, you can tap into the natural camaraderie and rivalry that exists within your chapter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This means that the data-driven approach emerging in the social period is strengthened – we don’t just monitor and measure data, but now we let our community do so, too. Show how many people are pledging to participate! The holistic period represents not just a balance, but an integration of technology with the way we work.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices. Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. Introducing Demographics via Candid.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2013

is a poor measure of a charity’s performance." You're encouraged to visit the Overhead Myth website, where you can pledge to help debunk the myth, as well as find helpful research, resources, and FAQs. I just signed the pledge myself! In no uncertain terms, these leading sources of U.S.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The compliance is not just a legal necessity but also a trust-building measure with their donors and supporters. From bot prevention using Google’s reCAPTCHA technology to secure credit card processing compliant with Level 1 PCI standards, Flipcause has incorporated a range of security measures to ensure optimal transaction security.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In addition, with CauseVox’s Pledge Now, Pay Later , donors have the option of making a pledge today and paying in automatic installments that best work with their budget: Is your fundraising ready for mobile? Pay attention to readability – The Flesch reading ease score measures how easy to read your text is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Flickr Photo by ESML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate. We needed to learn the technology and more importantly, how to measure to improve and make decisions about what to do next.”. Goodwill has learned from measuring its mobile strategy. Ace: Do One Thing.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Text-to-give (also known as text-to-pledge or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising in which donors give by sending a keyword to a text fundraising phone number. Pledges and automated pledge reminders to ensure donors fulfill their giving intentions.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2011

Census Bureau, there are more than 300,000,000 of us in the United States, 235 years after John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery, Lewis Morris, William Hooper, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark and 47 other founders mutually pledged to each other " our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Nonprofits across the country have pledged to participate in #GivingTuesday on Dec. Set Clear and Measurable Goals. The Giving Day Playbook offers some specific examples and templates for setting measureable goals for your participation. Guest Post: A Playbook to Kickstart Your Nonprofit’s Giving Tuesday Campaign.

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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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