Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? 3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel. Is the technology popular in the market?

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Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

From stats on conversion and acquisition to retention and supporter experience, check out the infographic below to get a peek at the data from the 2021 report. We created a free Benchmark Assessment to surface actionable fundraising takeaways based on your organization’s current metrics. See How Future-Ready Your Nonprofit Is Today.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Why is Social Media Data Important? Is it positive? Is it hostile?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Measure and track your success. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Tell your impact story. People are more likely to support organizations that they feel connected to. Research your competition. What are they doing well?

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

While stats are important, stories that focus on an individual and their journey can be much more relatable. See how Well Aware personalized their ShowerStrike campaign using CauseVox’s easy-to-use tools: Tip: If you want to share or track your campaign across social media, try incorporating a hashtag. Not sure where to start?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 28, 2024

Using the SMART parameters as bumpers for all sides of your fundraising strategy will create a plan that you can implement effectively while tracking your progress. KPIs + Tracking Performance Keeping tabs on the status of your goals is key to actually achieving them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. How do you track and measure your Facebook Fan Page against your objectives? Tags: facebook metrics.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.” More new stats include, “Friends of Fans” and “Total Reach.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! Set it up on your website and blog so that you can track your efforts. Once you’ve got the basic setup done look into using Google Analytics to track campaigns. You’ll have real web metrics to back up your work. First, set up a bit.ly Next, set up a Seesmic account.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. Well, here’s another mind-blowing stat: Radicati Group reports that there are over 4 billion email users worldwide, and that number is projected to reach 4.6 The numbers don’t lie! But what about reach?

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email Rate Social Media ROI 52

Qgiv

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Paper bids can be messy, disruptive, and hard to track. These stats may put your mind at ease: According to the Pew Research Center , 97% of Americans own a cell phone, and 90% use smartphones. Long check-in and checkout lines make guests unhappy, and manually entering bidding data is time-consuming.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

With Bloomerang , nonprofits can track and measure the metrics that matter most to them, including donor retention, major gift prospect numbers, and corporate giving totals. Bloomerang + Qgiv We’re kicking off this list with the top nonprofit CRM option available today: Bloomerang + Qgiv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s easy to get bogged down by stats so make it relatable by designating an individual as the focal point and adding a personal, heartfelt narrative. Check out how Neverthirst used CauseVox to make their Workout for Water campaign their own: Tip: If you want to share or track your campaign across social media, try incorporating a hashtag.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How do we know this? Focused Prospecting.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 California State Park’s Virtual Earth Day Report helps them track their progress and record their impact for prizes. Read Next: How Ocean’s Power Our Wallets, Health, and Planet.

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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. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Hopefully those days are coming soon as there’s a new movement to simplify and standardized social media measurements and better track what really matters. Well Katie calls that HITS = How Idiots Track Success.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 3, 2019

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is one of the key stats likely to be tracked as part of a customer experience program. This metric helps you understand a reasonable cost per acquisition for each customer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Nonprofit campaigners have a gazillion tools to choose from that they can use for online outreach, social media, measuring metrics, updating their website, and much more. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites. And while there is some bogus stats that attempts to give you a dollar amount per pin, the site does generate some useful data for you. Repinly is a site that analyzes Pinterest users and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2014

So I broke down and purchased a FitBit and as a metrics geek, I have to say I love it! The device syncs with my apps that help me track my miles and meals while the FitBit itself tracks my activity level, steps, and my sleeping patterns. So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit?

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Fundraising Benchmark Metrics Blackbaud 37

Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. Customize your dashboard to show the fundraising metrics most important to your nonprofit’s mission and campaign success. Pull reports with the most important metrics for your nonprofit’s success. Interactive dashboard. Selling tickets.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. Admittedly most tools are a waste of time and money, however, we’ve managed to track down a few exceptions to this rule and provide a brief overview of how nonprofits can leverage them to get results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. , a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. At e-metrics, someone told me it had to do with them dropping counts from different news readers.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. Investing the time and resources necessary not only to track but act on donor retention rates should be one of your organization’s top priorities.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes. We recently asked on our Facebook Page what. Nobody said number of followers.

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Social Media Stats Metrics Summary 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

While it is advised to review event metrics after an event, it may be beneficial to review some fundraiser participation while the fundraising is actually happening. Many peer-to-peer fundraising solutions offer a way for the development team to track the usage of online tools by their participants.

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