Fluxx

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Beyond the traditional metrics of grant awards, a deeper dive into grantmaking data unveils valuable insights. This blog will show how data, specifically regarding funds, awards, and geographic impact, can be harnessed to optimize grantmaking strategies.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Generate blog content: Consistent blog content can keep community members tapped into your organization and eager to sign up for your upcoming events. As you share content on social media, track metrics, like impressions and likes, to assess your performance.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Participate in cross-blogging. Cross-blogging opportunities require your nonprofit to partner with similar organizations to write posts for their online blog audiences. Outline the mutual benefits of this opportunity—by writing posts for your nonprofit’s blog, your partners will also be able to reach a new audience.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits. Fundraising Metrics. One of the most crucial data sets to keep an eye on are your fundraising metrics. Social Media Metrics. Fundraising Event Metrics. Email Marketing Metrics.

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Critical Fundraising

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Evan Feinberg says the efficiency metrics used by ratings agencies such as Charity Navigator aren’t the right ones. True enough.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 8, 2024

When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics. Open rates have become overinflated due to machine opens and, for the first time in 16 years of producing this report, we have determined that open rates are no longer a metric we can include.

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Candid

MAY 22, 2024

The Q4 2023 Quarterly Fundraising Report , released in April, found significant year-over-year declines across all metrics for 2023, including the number of donors, total dollars raised, and retention rates. The post 5 takeaways from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s 2023 data appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. We tie our videos to our blog posts. This can mean creating a video that gets expanded into a blog or shortening a blog into a video script. We later expanded it into a blog post.

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Blackbaud

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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

You can use it to monitor growth in your site, spot the more popular pages or blog posts, and assess the effectiveness of your marketing strategies. In this post, you'll find step-by-step instructions to connect your site to GA and some suggestions for a few metrics to track that will provide insights into your site activity.

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Candid

MAY 14, 2024

A social media audit involves reviewing your organization’s complete social media presence, not just analyzing the metrics (to learn about assessing metrics, read my article on creating a social media plan ). The post Spring cleaning: How to do a social media audit appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 21, 2024

As you do so, monitor the performance of your enhanced strategy by keeping tabs on key metrics like: Per-channel conversion rates: If your goal is to get recipients to donate through your online donation form , a conversion would be a recipient who completes an online donation.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track. The ability to track and analyze non-financial metrics alongside your financials is what will really increase your community health center’s efficiency and ability to serve more patients.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this blog, we will outline four common strategic planning pitfalls and what you can do to avoid each to ensure your nonprofit’s plan results in success. The post When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong appeared first on Candid Blog. Remember, too, that every strategic plan and its strategic priorities have risks.

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Candid

JUNE 12, 2023

adding Philanthropy Classification System codes, geolocation enhancements, precalculated financial metrics, and matching and deduplicating records). The Candid Insights team is already looking into incorporating the new data into upcoming blogs and research reports. Did grantmakers change their grantmaking practices in 2020?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. appeared first on Candid Blog. After finding our 200 nonprofits, we created a spreadsheet where we recorded their names, websites, and each organization’s mission statement. We also downloaded their IRS Form 990s?from

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Collecting metrics to determine success: Most video platforms allow you to track and analyze audience behaviors, including views, watch time, and percent completion. After creating an explainer video, choose the metrics you want to track in advance in order to determine whether the video meets your organization’s goals and objectives.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. The post How a Project Charter Can Help You Have a Successful Fund Accounting Software Implementation first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ensure you regularly track metrics such as reviews, listener numbers, audience growth rate, and the conversion rate from listeners to donors. You can monitor these metrics in native data analytics hubs on podcasting platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees. Other collaboratives may pursue broader goals that don’t lend themselves to common strategies and metrics, such as reducing intergenerational poverty.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries Blog and was authored by Jennifer Anthony. But without proper metrics, it can be difficult to determine the usefulness and efficacy of funded resources. Grant funding can provide essential supports to libraries and non-profits in the face of frozen or shrinking budgets.

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Not only do you need to explain what you’ve accomplished, you also need to provide metrics and/or anecdotal evidence that your programs are making a difference. appeared first on Candid Blog. Consequently, it’s difficult (though not impossible) for a brand-new organization to get a grant.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Talking about appropriate metrics with your team could help your organization shed the fear-based mentality and create a culture of transparency. The post 3 Strategies to Build Your Organization’s Financial Capacity first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. This post was originally published in March 2015 and updated in April 2024.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. These metrics measure outcomes for programs which can be compared to previous ones.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 14, 2023

Trust me, I continue to make mistakes (topics for future podcasts and blog posts), but my stance held true. It was at that moment I realized I could never hope to be the perfect grant administrator. Instead, I strived to never make the same mistake twice.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 30, 2024

End: Conclude your case study with the results, listing metrics about donations, attendance, and anything else that’s important to your organization. The post How to Craft a Post-Event Case Study appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Include snippets of your marketing materials and photos of guests participating in event activities.

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Community Boost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That’s why you need to implement TikTok SEO to increase your nonprofit’s reach, and this blog post is here to guide you through it. The TikTok algorithm highly values user interaction metrics like shares, comments, likes, and the amount of time viewers spend watching your videos. What is TikTok SEO?

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

We’ll go over important factors to consider when you rebrand your nonprofit throughout this blog. Next, consider what audience learnings you can surface using your nonprofit’s marketing analytics, such as email engagement metrics, website traffic measures, and social media performance.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. The post 6 Best Practices for Increasing Engagement with Digital Impact Reports first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

One or two metrics in clear, simple language It’s tempting to include as much material as possible in hopes of making a stronger case, but it’s best to keep it simple. One or two metrics that explicitly demonstrate your program impact are worth more than a dozen semi-relevant ones.

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Candid

JANUARY 20, 2023

Metrics: Share at least one impact-based metric from 2022.  The post Introducing 2023 Candid Seals of Transparency appeared first on Candid Blog. Platinum  Impact—showcase your nonprofit’s mission-driven goals and impress donors with the difference you’re making.  Click here to get started and earn your Seal!

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore key tactics and best practices for raising the most money in December, ensuring your organization ends the year on a high note. December is a critical month for nonprofits, often bringing a surge of charitable giving as donors seek to make year-end contributions. Leverage the Holiday Spirit 1.1

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

She blogs about social media and communications at carriewriterblog.com , and her portfolio and other links can be viewed at carriefreelance.com. The fee is $12 a month to set up the Meetup, and the optimal promotion tools are blog posts and embedding the Meetup widget on your site. Then, repeat.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Blog Summary: In todays competitive landscape, nonprofits, schools, and community groups can significantly enhance their fundraising efforts by leveraging data analytics. This blog explores how these organizations can harness actionable insights and innovative tools to optimize donor engagement.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 29, 2019

Explaining this entire infographic would take longer than this blog post! For example, if they are a lower-level partner, create a templated wrap report that showcases your brand and mission, but allows for easy plug-and-play metrics per partner. Go Beyond the Metrics. Numbers and metrics are always great!

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