The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes 5 Fundraising Metrics Every Nonprofit Should Track This Year In todays data-driven world, you cant afford to guess whats working and whats not in your fundraising efforts. Tracking the right metrics helps you understand your impact, refine your strategies, and maximize your resources.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The company is also utilizing Apples H2 chip to unlock a host of features most notable of which is heart-rate tracking. This new model is IPX4 rated for water resistance, so sweaty workouts shouldnt be a concern. Tracking my heart rate with the Powerbeats Pro 2 was accurate and reliable.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

This is especially true on social media because there are so many data points you can track. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Across platforms, you should be tracking social media engagement rates and conversion rates.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Measuring the Impact of AI on Member Engagement Once AI is integrated into your engagement strategy, tracking its impact is essential. Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) like member retention rates, event participation, and engagement levels.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As someone who analyzes hundreds of fundraising emails a year, here’s a process that you can follow to pinpoint where your email got off track and how to improve it in your next fundraising email. The obvious place to go when we look at open rates is the subject line. Subject lines are important in email fundraising, no doubt about it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? Measure the success of your upgrade asks – do donors who come from your species extinction petition go on to be regular donors at a higher rate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

.” High customer retention rates can help a company spend less on marketing, improve the overall lifetime value of a customer, and earn more referrals. According to the Harvard Business Review , increasing customer (or partner) retention rates by 5% can increase profits by 25-95%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. This Year Vs. Last Year. this year for major donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

7) Measure your social media engagement. You can also use the data to measure your progress against your goals. You’ll also want to keep track of these stats. This can come in very useful for tracking your progress and engagement. If you’re doing this, make sure to measure the clickthrough rate. on LinkedIn.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

A quick reminder: email opens are tracked by tiny image pixels embedded in the content. That means we’d actually see open rates go up for those who choose this option (probably most people), because pixels would be loaded for every email—but we won’t know if those people are actually opening emails or not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. How can you show your constituents that your organization is doing its best with what it has? How to Best Illustrate ROI.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ? Investigating the renewal status by member segment can help you uncover important insights into which members will and will not renew.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The ability to track and monitor those relationships should be the #1 priority for organizations seeking to expand their donor base or increase their revenue. There is a higher website conversion rate and donors stay on the website longer because of more opportunities to engage with the software.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

When you offer early-bird discounts or group rates, you can fill event openings quickly, giving you a better idea of the demand for your events. Encourage your members or continuing education program attendees to try a new course, certification, or educational product at a discounted rate. Driving event attendance.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to calculate an accurate nonprofit dollar retention rate. Should we track retained dollar value in 2021 compared to total retainable revenue in 2021 (the same year) or compare that amount to total retainable revenue in 2020 (the previous year)? What to measure.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Essentially, this is a folder of Word documents each containing answers to common grant application questions, like organization mission and activities, the greatest challenges our nonprofit faces, how we measure and evaluate program impact, how we recognize funders, etc. That’s what I do to increase our grant approval rate.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Findings from M+RBenchmarks reveal that simplifying donation pagesstreamlining fields and focusing on clarityleads to better conversion rates. For example, do you want to increase online donations by 15% in the next year, or reduce your sites bounce rate by 10%? A user-friendly donation form helps too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 27, 2023

More Loyal Donors While new donor retention rates average less than 20% , monthly giving programs typically enjoy retention rates of over 80% after the first year and over 95% after year five. Reports and tracking: Your online giving system should offer real-time reporting of gifts and allow you to track monthly donors over time.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

If particular role types are not attending, take a look at your content and determine if it makes sense to create sessions or a learning track that addresses their needs. As a bonus, many associations find that repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates. ( Do your repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates? ).

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Track the Effectiveness of Your Stewardship After implementing your new stewardship strategies, monitoring their effectiveness is crucial. By tracking key metrics, you can measure the duration and quality of your donor relationships and identify areas for improvement.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Cardiologists are looking forward to the future of blood pressure tech — but the field still needs to catch up It’s been over two years since Samsung first announced that its Galaxy Watch would be able to measure people’s blood pressure. Blood pressure measurement is something we need to do a lot more a lot of,” she says.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “How does your nonprofit measure success?” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Strong Staff Supports a Strong Mission We measure success through employee feedback and the experiences of those we support.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Below are four simple yet highly effective ways that data can help you increase response rates. Every constituent not already assigned to a major gift officer or special cultivation track gets X number of solicitations each year. The post How Data Can Improve Your Nonprofit’s Response Rates first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

However, one area to note is that you must have conversion tracking set up as part of the application process. Have set up one or more “Goals” within Google Analytics for valuable actions that users can perform on your website (we will discuss this further in the “Conversion Tracking” section below) . This means that you: .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital. Already in 2020, Strava has seen significant growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In search of a solution to bolster developer productivity, three former Atlassian employees — Dylan Etkin, Michael Knighten and Don Brown — cofounded Sleuth , a tool that integrates with existing software development toolchains to provide insights to measure efficiency.

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

I can get through a full day that includes tracking a run, a Fitness+ workout, setting timers, obsessively checking the weather, logging meds and taking a couple of dog walks all with enough juice left to track my sleep. Its OK if my watch isnt a doctors office Fitness tracking is high on my list of non-negotiable features.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Why LMS Data Analytics Matters Learning Management Systems collect a wealth of information on learners—everything from course completion rates to assessment scores and engagement levels. Course Completion Rates One of the most basic data points is whether or not employees are completing assigned courses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel. Clearly, understand prior to the implementation their track record – are they on time, on budget, stayed within the project scope? Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause? Who will be doing training, support after you go-live?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

Case in Point According to the 2023 M+RBenchmarks report, nonprofits that maintained consistent branding and simplified their donation pages saw marked improvements in conversion rates. Measure Your Progress and Refine Track Key Brand Metrics Brand clarity is about more than warm, fuzzy feelingsit also impacts measurable results.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Surprising, then, that while it’s easy to get the PR for having the goals, it’s way harder to actually measure and track how companies are performing against those goals. The company learned that most ESG tracking is currently done in some pretty esoteric systems — mostly spreadsheets or collaborative databases.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Announced today, the Withings Body Scan will feature six-lead EKG readings, segmented body composition measurements, and the ability to assess foot nerve activity. Smart scales measure body composition via bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). The scale will purportedly measure sweat gland activity in your feet and generate a score.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

Youre probably generally familiar with the concept of donor retention , but you may not know your own rate or the many nuances of donor retention strategies. Most nonprofits and charities measure donor retention year over year. Now that youve got some data, what can you do to improve your donor retention rates?

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s dive into how learning analytics can drive engagement, improve course completion rates, identify gaps in learning programs, and optimize the learning experience. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Because giving instant feedback to successful candidates can do wonders for increasing your close rate. For every interviewer on our platform, we track two key metrics: candidate experience and interviewer calibration. The candidate experience score is a measure of how likely someone is to return after talking to a given interviewer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Nonprofits have assets but instead of owners having equity in the balance sheet, net assets are tracked for a nonprofit. At a nonprofit, a donation must be tracked throughout the accounting process, and if the funds are restricted, supporting documentation is required to prove that the funds were only used for the stated purpose.

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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. And while it’s important for you to track and report on all of them, it isn’t feasible to regularly review them all.

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