Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

9) Browse pictures of baby animals regularly. A recent study out of Hiroshima University called the “Power of Kawaii (Cute)” found that browsing pictures of adorable baby animals on a daily basis causes workers to slow down, relax and be more accurate in their work. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Provide a Benefit Analysis ROI in Focus: While emotional appeals are powerful, it’s also crucial to underscore the tangible benefits. While proving ROI on analytics (and other systems, e.g. your AMS) can be difficult, a benefit analysis provides directional ROI on the key areas that you and your association care about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. I think that is dangerous. However, if you want to get to the other two outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. I shall investigate - I muttered - to know what ROI could account for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Finding the ROI. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. But we have reached an inflection point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it. If you track you time and have specific tasks, you know what you're getting for your time investment. It's just one step away from looking at ROI. Tags: 10ntc metrics. Our task was to present.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems ROI Matters All businesses want a positive return on their investments, and training is no exception. The standard quantifiable metrics include business KPIs like Sales, Revenue, Profits, Operational Efficiency, etc.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s fast-paced business environment, investing in employee training is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. However, simply providing training is not enough; you must ensure that your training programs yield a high return on investment (ROI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We’ve all heard the phrase, “a picture is worth 1,000 words.” And if you need to make the ROI argument on why you are spending time and resources on creating visuals, here’s a list of the tangible and intangible benefits of adding infographics to your marketing and reporting mix. 1: What is an infographic?

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2021

Training's impact on intangibles will have to be converted into quantifiable scores to be added to the measurable metrics for a better picture of the ROI.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

If you are not sure which metrics are essential or how to convert your data into something stakeholders can grasp and absorb, start simply by setting clear goals. Learn more: Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You Measuring Outcomes Outcome metrics are powerful, necessary tools for demonstrating transparency and accountability.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. STEP 2: Making your case WITH ROI. ROI Analysis. Do you suspect you can do better?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. Paint a picture that your audience will recognize themselves in. This will help increase membership and revenue.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics. But when looking at the bigger picture, even more valuable benefits become clear: Higher conversion rates through better-targeted donor lists. Reduced overhead costs of broad fundraising outreach. How Nonprofits Use AI.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them. WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox. Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Then…repeat!

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll walk through three key social media fundraising metrics, as well as how you can improve them: Social Media Engagement Rate Conversion Rate Social Media Return on Investment Ready to tap into the full potential of social media fundraising? This helps viewers better understand your daily operations and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He discusses a way of seeing both the big strategic picture and the smaller immediate tactics. If you track you time and have specific tasks, you know what you’re getting for your time investment. It’s just one step away from looking at ROI. I talk about spreadsheet aerobics and other measurement tips.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

This will damage your organization’s name and strain your digital marketing budgets due to lower ROI from such emails. . Instead… Decide upon the right frequency of sending emails depending upon statistics of essential metrics like open rates, unsubscribe rate, CTR, and conversation rates. Remember to thank your donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. This information can give you a clearer picture of how your fundraising efforts have grown or changed over the years. A few effective metrics to track include: Donor retention rate. Note these specifics and address them in your new fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are a FB Page administrator, you probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached. One of the new features on Facebook is the “ Promoted Post.” Promoted Posts are pictures, links, videos, or text that administrators can pay to appear on more Facebook users’ news feeds.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This not only leads to inefficiencies but also prevents you from seeing the full picture of your donor relationships. Measuring the ROI of Identity Resolution Lastly, it’s essential to measure the success of your identity resolution efforts.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 4, 2015

Picture this—your nonprofit has its next email fundraising appeal down. These metrics can help you see who isn’t getting your messages and why bounce rates are occurring and minimize them. However, the only real metrics to measure email marketing success are clicks, opens and conversions. Check out the link below. EveryAction].

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Present dashboards, videos, and slideshows that invite them to imagine the transformational work you could accomplish with the right level of financial support, a visualization to forecast the ROI of their gift. Donors even at the highest level are not immune to incentives. Make the (Right) Ask. Register now.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Assessment occurs through the use of success metrics, otherwise known as key performance indicators (KPIs). Nonprofits don’t have trouble finding success metrics to use. ● Both of those suggestions have their place in the nonprofit community as KPIs, but they’re not starter metrics. Let’s narrow down that list of metrics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Determine the ROI of Social Media. What's that you say? Balderdash! Or the Women's Museum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

Change the metrics of success. Using for-profit metrics such as ROI (return on investment) and KPI (key performance indicators) can be beneficial for a nonprofit, but the sector must educate donors, boards and the public on other meaningful indicators of success.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The UpMetrics guide to impact reporting recommends taking the following steps to make your reports as compelling as possible: Choose relevant metrics. Report on the metrics that matter most to major donors. Use qualitative and quantitative data.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The pictures told a story. One of the most captivating pictures that we came across was actually an ad for a nonprofit – charity:water. According to reports, Instagram is currently working on a built in metrics system, so that companies who invest advertising dollars on Instagram can get a moderate picture of ROI.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. Diversity Metrics. Project your future needs and allocate resources accordingly. Services Delivered.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel. To learn more about how to calculate and apply your indirect cost rate to your programs and services, check out our webinar with Dr. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs. Identify the top line for each channel.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel. To learn more about how to calculate and apply your indirect cost rate to your programs and services, check out our webinar with Dr. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs. Identify the top line for each channel.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Problem 1: Receiving Minimal Traffic or Low Clicks Site traffic and ad clicks are two of your most vital metrics. Long story short, driving sufficient traffic and clicks with Google Ads is essential for boosting brand exposure and your advertising efforts’ ROI. That way, you can keep everything running smoothly. A single CTA.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Because of this, they aren’t incentivized to talk to each other, which makes it difficult to see the full picture and make decisions quickly. Many of the tools organizations work closely with were built by different teams with different business models. Some common challenges amongst organizations include: Not knowing where to start.

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