A Nonprofit’s Guide to Fundraising Metrics
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 15, 2024
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Three Warning Signs Your Association Isn’t Keeping Up with Technology
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) : Define and track KPIs that align with your strategic goals, such as member engagement, retention, and satisfaction metrics. For deeper insights, download our latest white paper , which offers guidance on building a resilient, technology-forward organization.
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Strategies for Building a Future-Ready Association in 2025 and Beyond
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Set Clear Goals and Metrics : Define what success looks like in terms of member engagement, satisfaction, and retention. Track these metrics over time to adjust your strategy as needed. Implement Data Analytics : Leverage data analytics to track member behavior, event participation, and other key metrics.
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12 Quick Hit Facts On Nonprofit Content Marketing
TechImpact
JULY 9, 2014
Of the nonprofits currently utilizing content marketing, they implement 11 different strategies including blogs, social media, newsletters, white papers, infographics and more! 53% of respondents to this survey cited website traffic as the metric most important to them. 70% of nonprofits outsource web design to an agency.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Tested TAM tips, no-code tech survey, writing crypto white papers
TechCrunch
MARCH 11, 2022
In her latest TC+ post , she broke down the steps required to capture these key metrics that will “show prospective investors how they stand to gain from investing in your company, and put yourself in the best possible position to achieve your goals.”. Hire a writer and a lawyer before releasing a cryptocurrency white paper.
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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations
sgEngage
DECEMBER 30, 2024
To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success, lets look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. You will have the elements to translate between and marry the business metrics that ROI measured and your mission impact criteria.
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Content Metrics You Should Track
Care2
JANUARY 7, 2013
Here’s some great content metrics that strategist Jay Baer highlighted on his blog (thanks for the recommendation Beth Kanter ) which nonprofits can utilize. What white papers are downloaded the most? Some call social media shares vanity metrics because they have turned into such a popularity contest.
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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 17, 2008
Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. Dave Webb answered my musings about quantifying the intangible with a pointer to this report and observation. There's a lot to digest here.
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Level Up Your Marketing with Analytics
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. Here are examples of success metrics broken down by three common channels: List Preparation. This is important for conversion metrics or click-through success metrics. Analyze Performance.
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How to measure the ROI of your ongoing SEO efforts
The Next Web
MARCH 2, 2014
Use this metric for success to best understand if your business is growing traffic from new visitors, existing visitors or both. Analyze what infographics, blog posts, product pages, webinars, eBooks, white papers, etc. Which metrics tend to be the most effective in highlighting success? Increased inbound links.
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10 Things to Know When Moving To A More ?Capable Software Platform
VisionLink
MAY 17, 2013
Click here to download full White Paper. Note that we use a monthly metric here at VisionLink. Click here to download full White Paper. Your Future Operational Model? Software providers can almost always support both large and small operations. The devil is in the detail. up to 84 hours at one time).
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Data-Driven Strategies to Revolutionize Your Association’s Content Marketing
Association Analytics
OCTOBER 7, 2024
There’s a growing list of them, whether Acumen or other more rudimentary tools, it’s a great option for associations to find actionable insights.”
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3 tips for finding analytics talent
Tableau
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
The Data Culture playbook can help you: Align leadership metrics to business priorities. 1 IDC White Paper, sponsored by Salesforce, The Salesforce Economic Impact, Doc. 3 IDC Thought Leadership White Paper, sponsored by Tableau, How Data Culture Fuels Business Value in Data-Driven Organizations, Doc.
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Data Literacy for Responsible AI: Algorithmic Bias
DataRobot
AUGUST 16, 2021
AI researchers and academics have proposed over 70 metrics that can each define bias by pinpointing how an algorithm treats different groups represented in a dataset differently. Deciding what bias metric is most relevant requires a contextual interpretation of a use case. White Paper. Data Literacy for Responsible AI.
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Terraform Industries wants to solve climate change by making more hydrocarbons
TechCrunch
MAY 8, 2023
A billion metric tons of carbon. According to a recent white paper , the company estimates it will need to build 8,000 factories in order to scale production of the Terraformer machines to more than 1 million units per month by the next decade. . to the global automotive industry,” the white paper says.
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Create a Winning New Member Strategy in 3 Easy Steps
Association Analytics
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. Associations can build thought leadership through blogs, white papers, publications, and appearances on webinars and podcasts.
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3 tips for finding analytics talent
Tableau
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
The Data Culture playbook can help you: Align leadership metrics to business priorities. 1 IDC White Paper, sponsored by Salesforce, The Salesforce Economic Impact, Doc. 3 IDC Thought Leadership White Paper, sponsored by Tableau, How Data Culture Fuels Business Value in Data-Driven Organizations, Doc.
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Lyft vows ‘100 percent’ of its vehicles will be electric by 2030
The Verge
JUNE 17, 2020
By working with automakers and rental car companies, as well as the millions of independent contractors who drive for Lyft every day, the ride-hailing company believes it can prevent “tens of millions of metric tons” of pollutants from entering the atmosphere.
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The Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Grants for Nonprofits: 2022 Edition
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 10, 2022
Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. Conversion tracking allows you to have important metrics about how the traffic that is driven to your site interacts with your site and organization.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges
TechCrunch
APRIL 7, 2023
Since the average friends and family round is $23,000, “they’d need to secure the entire liquid wealth of six Black families” for parity, according to a white paper by venture fund Fifth Star. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.
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Can data fix healthcare?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
During that time he learned that Providence had put together a white paper concerning the idea that Truveta would become, that by collecting data from healthcare providers a dataset of sufficient size and diversity could be compiled to allow research of all sorts to leverage it. It was one hell of a week. Various and Sundry.
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Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance)
sgEngage
JULY 20, 2021
In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance.
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Meeting Today’s Challenges: Why Your Organization Needs a Modern CFO
sgEngage
AUGUST 29, 2023
Data-Driven The modern CFO can identify the key performance indicators that are most important to the organization and track financial metrics, such as revenue diversity, operating margin, and cash flow, as well as non-financial metrics, such as donor satisfaction, employee engagement, and social impact.
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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission
NTEN
MAY 12, 2011
It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don't just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.
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DotCom Therapy raises $13M to provide therapy for kids, in and out of school
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
DotCom Therapy has released white papers suggesting children have benefited from their teletherapy program. In general, a lack of platform-specific validation has common critique for other mental-health telemedicine companies.
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8 Tips For Leaders New To Blogging
Eric Jacobsen Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Perhaps you ask a question or offer a downloadable white paper. Use free metrics and analytical tools to measure which of your postings are best read and shared. Include a call to action. Or, ask readers to sign up for your company's e-newsletter. Publish a list that is likely to be shared by your Blog's readers.
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5 ways to grow business value through analytics
Tableau
MARCH 23, 2022
They can collaborate to ensure customized metrics and dimensions have been agreed upon and support their team’s goals. Emami , a leading personal care and healthcare business in India, created tailored visualizations to track financial and operational metrics. Enable self-service analytics. Start a free trial of Tableau today.
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Responsible AI Relies on Data Literacy
DataRobot
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Evaluation metrics for machine learning models: Understanding evaluation metrics, what they optimize for, and how they intersect with AI fairness principles gives stakeholders the language necessary to qualify risks associated with AI systems. WHITE PAPER. rule-based AI , machine learning , deep learning , etc.)
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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission
Forum One
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don’t just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.
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To Measure Success at Your Mission-Driven Organization, Look at Impact, Not Just Activities
Forum One
JANUARY 14, 2025
published two white papers with thousands of downloads; authored eight blog posts; live-tweeted at three events; sent out 10,000 emails within 1,300 click-throughs; issued a press release). Output Metrics What outputs are being produced? Impact Metrics What methods can you use to monitor progress toward your mission?
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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Before the pandemic, Rhodri Davies, head of policy at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), authored the 2019 white paper, “ Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy, and Artificial Intelligence ,” describing the opportunities. “If The indexes are created by an algorithm.
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61 6 Tips for Improved Prospect Data Collection — Part One
Tech Soup
JANUARY 8, 2013
With either scenario, there are many ways to get started, so please check out my colleague David Lamb’s white paper, The Basics of Prospect Management. The other missing element is providing metrics on your fundraising process and results. Without accurate and consistent data entry, you can't measure accurate results.
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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission
Forum One
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don’t just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.
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How To: Put Technology to Use (October 2008)
NTEN
NOVEMBER 3, 2008
Well, The Social Organization has a piece on " Collecting All Social Media Metrics " That's a start. Dow Jones, of all places, has a white paper on " Tracking the Influence of Conversations " (We imagine many of the conversations they've been hearing over the past month involve Chicken Little.).
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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Financials to Increase Transparency
Connection Cafe
MARCH 15, 2019
Learn more about the benefits of financial transparency in Blackbaud’s new white paper: Compliance Risk Management for the Empowered Nonprofit . In this section, you have over ten lines for each of the top three program areas, so it’s important to include as much relevant detail and metrics about your programs as possible. .
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5 ways to grow business value through analytics
Tableau
MARCH 23, 2022
They can collaborate to ensure customized metrics and dimensions have been agreed upon and support their team’s goals. Emami , a leading personal care and healthcare business in India, created tailored visualizations to track financial and operational metrics. Enable self-service analytics. Start a free trial of Tableau today.
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Timing is Everything… Proposals in the Prospect Tab of The Raiser’s Edge®
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
For a more comprehensive read on the subject of Prospect Management, please check out David Lamb’s white paper entitled, The Basics of Prospect Management: Using Prospect Intelligence™ to Achieve Fundraising Results. Cultivation.
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4 Foundational Tips for a Sure-Fire Fundraising Strategy in 2022
Top Nonprofits
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with streamlined donor records, an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. DonorPerfect experts designed the 2022 Fundraising Calendar to help you improve your organization’s key metrics.
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The Importance of Collaborative Benchmarking in the Nonprofit Sector
Connection Cafe
JULY 30, 2019
By introducing collaborative benchmarking, organizations can not only generate new ideas for improving processes, approaches, and technologies, but also guide the creation of key metrics and drive measurable change. The whitepaper shows how to navigate these barriers by identifying common opportunities and examples of successful benchmarking.
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28 This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content
Nonprofits Source
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Next, I analyzed competitor metrics and backlink profiles of those who rank on the first page to determine if I stood a chance of ranking for them. For example, you can take 5 related blog posts and combine them into a massive ebook or white paper to distribute as a content upgrade. Repurpose Content Into New Mediums.
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Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 24, 2020
Download the new white paper “ Moving Upstream: Hospitals’ Strategic Shifts to Advance Community Health” Hospitals have recently made significant moves to address upstream issues and meet the needs of patients—and community members—outside the four walls of their institutions. Best-in-class community grantmaking programs have….
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35 4 Steps to Implementing Your Social Change Strategy: A Case Study with SEFCU
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 8, 2019
Learn more about outcomes measurement in the free white paper: “The Point of Impact: Empowering Champions for a Better World”. Make sure to ask for consistent metrics for each area as well – the key to being able to compare programs/grants, roll-up data and determine your overall impact is asking for apple to apple indicators.
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AI for Real Estate Investment
DataRobot
JUNE 24, 2022
This will enable the asset manager to detect real estate assets in areas that are undervalued but rising in key real estate market’s performance metrics. White Paper. Contact a member of the DataRobot team to learn more and see how your organization can become AI-driven. Leveraging Geospatial Data and Analysis with AI.
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Seven Steps to Ensuring a Successful Sustained Giving Program
Connection Cafe
JUNE 18, 2015
In addition to assigning staff, you must also determine what metrics to track, such as the: Total number of active sustainers. Download the White Paper: Sustaining Your Mission: How to Build and Maintain a Successful Recurring Giving Program. Assign staff and measure your results. Now who at your organization “owns” it?
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