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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

But its only railway has recently become the subject of a viral TikTok travel trend: riding the Iron Ore Train. Why Tourists Are Drawn to the Mauritania Railway Although the Iron Ore Train includes a designated passenger car , the social media trend focuses on riding atop the loaded iron ore carspromoted online as a daring travel adventure.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The release of Tableau Pulse introduces some redundancies to the platform, including search-based analytics with Ask Data and Tableau Metrics. Metrics enhance data trust As analytics expand into more end-user use cases, a key challenge is trust in data. In 2020, Metrics in Tableau launched.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Let’s explore trends both sectors should consider when evolving their CSR efforts. Establishing an ESG program is only the first step—you’ll also need to prove its long-term value by continuously collecting and reporting key performance metrics (KPIs). Then, you can use these metrics for decision-making and reporting.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . This will help you understand donor trends, such as if you reached a new audience, if the average gift amount increased, etc. . Goals and metrics . 11 metrics to evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . Total revenue.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 14, 2025

Without automation, nonprofits struggle to keep donor records updated, track giving trends, and personalize outreach effectively. Provides a holistic view of donor behavior, including giving trends, engagement levels, and retention insights.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2024

I hear myself repeating something similar when I host an annual webinar on emerging data trends for higher ed annual giving programs. Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Circulate articles and information on best practices and trends in finance. Offering online dashboards that make financial trends easy to spot. To highlight the significant metrics, describe the relationship between the budget, the plan, and initiatives that are important to members. Online courses. Share information.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

It involves: Defining What to Measure: Identify the specific metrics that align with your strategic goals. It’s important to tailor your metrics and dashboards to meet their needs. Effective dashboards use simple, meaningful visuals like line charts and bar charts to highlight trends and performance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

More posts by this contributor Use DORA metrics to support the next generation of remote-work models Insider hacks to streamline your SOC 3 certification application While the past few years saw a big drive towards caring for employees, the last months have seen the pendulum swing in the other direction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The collection includes a range of elevated basics that play into classic styles Gap is known for, but with contemporary and trend-driven silhouettes, and elevated fabrications and construction. Things that have style and trends without being disposable. To do that, he aims to balance Gaps metrics-driven approach with his own taste.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Dont Worry About the Clock A second mechanism is training leaders to deprogram themselves from thinking that the amount of time that they spend on work is the best metric of productivity. Turn course now and recover instead of simply following the downward trend. That’s a recipe for burnout. It wont get better on its own.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

However, troubling trends have emerged in two key areas: 1) The share of grantmakers providing technology and tools for nonprofits has decreased to 20%, from 23% in 2022; and 2) the share grantmakers willing to removing funding restrictions has also declined, to 30%, from 34% in 2022.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Can the development office customize workflows and notifications when a donor is lapsing to help you determine the root cause and how to turn the trend around? Is the technology popular in the market?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

I’m not talking about so-called engagement metrics like “clicks,” “likes,” and “follows” (what the Agitator-DonorVoice gurus call the empty calories of fundraising/marketing). It’s a type of bending in a new direction, and if you want to adapt to the trend you need to be able to bend as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. This is absolutely critical because it allows you to set up the right kind of ad campaign, and it also lets Facebook report back on key metrics about your ads, including how many people are giving, and how much. He holds an M.A.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs. Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. It helps them know if they are using time and resources wisely.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In fact, a recent Global Trends in Giving report reveals that 33% of donors in the U.S. Monitor email metrics such as open and clickthrough rates to determine how frequently supporters open your emails. Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency. Track email metrics to optimize your strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with clean, streamlined donor records that record donations from your online forms and update automatically , an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. About the Author.

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Organizations are looking for AI platforms that drive efficiency, scalability, and best practices, trends that were very clear at Big Data & AI Toronto. Model Observability – the ability to track key health and service metrics for models in production – remains a top priority for AI-enabled organizations. Request a Demo.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In this three-part toolkit, we include a guide and a master list of metrics you should really care about to determine the success of your organization, as well as a dashboard to track your data and measure your trends. Are your email campaigns being effective? Download the FREE Guide.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Going Beyond Basic Metrics Learning analytics goes beyond basic metrics to offer you a deeper understanding of course performance and learner engagement. To capitalize on this trend, they strategically offered targeted courses leading up to conferences and experienced a surge in participation and membership renewals.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

Health —Positive performance across a range of well-defined metrics, including financial stability and the professional development and engagement of staff, volunteers, and members. Be prepared to act on trends and avoid disruption. Resilience —The ability to adapt to change and achieve long-term sustainability and relevance.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Those data points are from a new study of 20 years of gender and giving trends in a new report “Women Giving 2024” from the Womens Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Ackerman is the studys primary author. Also involved were Xiao Han, applied statistician and Una Osili, Ph.D.,

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Thats why weve created this comprehensive articleto guide you through the ins and outs of mobile giving.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

The post Trends in Grantmaking: Putting Equitable Grantmaking into Practice first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Louisa Robinson, Business Analyst for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation , shared during a webinar on Modern Grantmaking that they started making a concerted effort to collect diversity information from their grantees in 2020.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. Having this data will help you make business decisions based on trends or actual performance. Here are examples of success metrics broken down by three common channels: List Preparation. Attribution.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These difficulties stem from factors such as grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, while data analytics is a higher priority for organizations, just one-third of association professionals report their data is excellent or very good. Gauge how your association measures up by surveying your staff to identify key trends in your organization.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Types of Data Available in LMS Systems According to our 2024 Customer Education Benchmarks & Trends report —in which we commissioned Forrester to survey 300 education leaders at the director level or above—80% of high-success organizations consider “access to multiple types of data” important to running a successful customer education program.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For instance, the Blackbaud Institute Spotlight: 2023 Trends in Giving found that online giving grew by 17% among small organizations, medium organizations by nearly 10%, and large organizations by 12.5% These metrics can then guide layout decisions, calls-to-action, and content structure.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Platforms like GrantPuma—which I founded—partner with Candid to scan tens of thousands of federal and foundation grants, funders’ strategic priorities, and funding trends to deliver relevant opportunities. By analyzing your needs and goals, these tools deliver curated opportunities in seconds. How does smart search enhance grant writing?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . The last thing you want to do is waste their time and bog their donor reports down with unnecessary metrics. . Predictive analytics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We’re not really concerned with their overall revenue and profit metrics. As TechCrunch reported when PayPal dropped its Q3 numbers, the public company had bullish results from its Venmo service, payment processing and consumer activity metrics.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 18, 2025

Depending on the deliverable, you may be tracking audience behavior in email analytics, engagement metrics in social media, completed transactions on your giving page, or website traffic from a QR code or link. Directly asking for feedback from your audience is also important.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

AARP conducted focus groups that included users already knowledgeable about LTSS issues and affiliated data and trends, as well as users who had no connection to LTSS or related concepts. AARPs data set presented an interesting information design challenge: the numbers and percentages for the various metrics didnt use a consistent scale.

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