Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

To stand out in the competitive grant landscape of 2025, aligning your proposals with your organizations strategic goals is not just advisableits essential. Are your goals and objectives still relevant for 2025? Ensure that your strategic goals are: Specific and Measurable: Clearly define what success looks like.

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Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors lead busy lives—managing their careers, maintaining social relationships, and pursuing their personal goals. Consider metrics such as the total funds you raised and the number of new donors you acquired. Set a goal and budget. Last year, in the U.S. billion to charitable causes. Promote your campaign.

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The Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re unsure about which data metrics to keep an eye on, then you’re in the right place. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about website data metrics, including: . In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about website data metrics, including: . Why Are Website Data Metrics Important?

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Consideration: The donor deepens their engagement by navigating to the nonprofit’s website and reading resources about its mission, programs, and goals. However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics. Charitable giving saw a 2.1% Perform a deep data analysis. Personalize communications.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Considering that most nonprofits seeking grant funding have limited budgets, it is vital to their fundraising goals to ensure that they are utilizing their resources as efficiently as possible to ensure their best possible chances of success. To begin, the Project Goals section lists the critical community needs the funder wants to address.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Gifts from prospects on the top of your giving pyramid are necessary to meet your campaign goal. Review reporting. Add data health tools.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 21, 2024

While it may help fundraisers hit their metric goals, it doesn’t align with how major donors think, feel or give. And that’s where a deeper, more thoughtful strategy comes into play.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

As we have worked with nonprofits, some of those nonprofits love to delve into data and constantly adjust goals and metrics, and other nonprofits need more guidance about how to structure their goals to be data-driven. Read our article here about our 2023 successes.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, this results in low attendance numbers, causing you to miss the mark on your fundraising goal. Instead, construct a quality and intentional social media strategy that is tailored to your audience and supports your marketing goals. Let’s dig into the essentials.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 2, 2024

The midpoint of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. You may need to make some changes to your fundraising plan and other goals. Look at metrics such as website visits and email open rates. Believe it or not, we’re halfway through 2024. Always have a plan.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 17, 2024

In a sprint to the finish, you need good energy in the form of clean, complete data, to get you to your goal. We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. But information is the fuel that drives any technology machine: it is what our devices collect, store, synthesize, and distribute. Why pay attention to data?

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 2, 2025

DEI Metrics and Reporting Nonprofits will be required to report on DEI metrics , including: Workforce Diversity : Providing data on the diversity of staff and leadership. Program Impact : Demonstrating how programs address and advance equity and inclusion within communities served. Shift Towards Collaborative Funding Models 3.1

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Set a goal! Set a goal! Set a goal! Goals, goals, goals….

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Big Fundraising Ideas

JUNE 4, 2024

How to Set Realistic Goals for Your School Fundraiser Blog Summary: This blog offers a comprehensive guide for school administrators, teachers, PTA members, and community stakeholders on how to set achievable SMART goals for school fundraisers. The SMART goals framework provides a practical approach to setting these objectives.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Donor data can help you understand you donors and reach new ones, set goals and track successes and ways to grow, and—most importantly—data can keep your nonprofit on track to fulfill your mission! To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Yet data helps leadership and the board of directors quantify the year-to-year success and progress toward department goals. All too often, an organization will set unrealistic goals without adequate resources or available opportunities or set unreasonable expectations for the number of applications an individual needs to submit.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 15, 2024

The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. 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. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2024

Make sure to cover more logistical questions during the interview as well, like how the partner will track impact metrics during the partnership. For example, let’s say a pet-care business’ ultimate goal is to partner with an animal shelter to encourage people to adopt pets rather than purchasing them from stores or breeders.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 2, 2024

It’s less useful for future planning and goal-setting since you don’t have official, complete records of expected revenue or outstanding payments. Of the data your nonprofit collects , financial information is one of the most useful types—and one of the most complex to track. Essentially, it tracks cash flow in and out of your nonprofit.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The less focused your nonprofit is, the less likely you are to achieve your goals because the organization is spread too thin. They pick a goal, define strategies, and stay focused on the small handful of metrics that measure the execution of the strategy. Successful nonprofits try to solve one specific difficult problem.

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Blackbaud

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. How Did We Get Here? For years, weve used language from for-profit businesses to explain nonprofit organizational activity.

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Candid

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Instead, they can fester and turn into grievances which can be weaponized in service of reactionary goals. I felt this was an important moment for philanthropy. While French Gates continues to focus most of her giving on women and girls, she also recognizes the need to help boys and men. Gender equality is not a zero-sum game.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Your website can be a great marketing tool, but it can also help your nonprofit raise funds. Learn how to encourage donations on your nonprofit website. However, one of its most important functions is as a tool for fundraising. If designed correctly, your website can be an unstoppable force in driving donations. Keep the form to one page.

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Candid

JANUARY 18, 2022

Impact—share goals and the difference you’re making . Strategy & goals: upload strategic plan or briefly answer two questions . Metrics: share at least one metric from 2021 . If your organization has a 2021 or older Seal . to manage your profile and? review all required fields. . Update or add information?

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Blackbaud

JUNE 21, 2024

Before you incorporate texting into your marketing strategy, you need to understand its strengths as a communication channel and the natural ways it can help you further your marketing and fundraising goals. In addition to these metrics, choose key performance indicators (KPIs) based on your unique goals.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Have you ever been pulled into a meandering project with no clear direction or goals? Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. How does this project fit within your mission, values, and goals? out of scope).

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DonorSnap

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Unfortunately, some years nonprofits might not hit their goal. In this blog post, we will cover how nonprofits should handle not meeting a fundraising goal and how they can communicate the results of the campaign with their supporters. Should nonprofits tell their supporters when they don’t hit a fundraising goal?

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2024

We also have email, the internet, and social media, just to name a few. It’s a lot! How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? You need to communicate regularly with your donors and you need to do it well. But in this sea of information, they might miss your messages. What’s your intention? What’s the purpose of your message?

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

A successful nonprofit strategy is all about getting critical resource decisions right to achieve organizational goals. What impact goals will we hold ourselves accountable to over the next three-five years? Plans can sometimes read like wish lists, citing every new idea or opportunity on the horizon.

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Not Your Father's Charity

AUGUST 17, 2022

Perhaps you’re reminded when a new team member starts discussing the metrics and that mysterious, elusive thing called a “brand.” With LinkedIn, it’s possible to create a network that aligns with your brand goals while also expanding those goals by connecting with potential clients and important contacts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that provide insight into the performance of any given process or tool. When it comes to nonprofit websites, these metrics can help you determine how effective the site is at driving donations, volunteer sign-ups, awareness, or other organizational goals.

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 2, 2025

Securing grant funding is a primary goal for many nonprofit organizations. Articulate clear interim and summative metrics to demonstrate the impact of your project. Does Your Mission Align with Funders Goals? Craft your proposal to align closely with the goals and priorities of the funding organization.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

The scope of your nonprofit’s rebrand will depend on your goals. 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. The scope of your nonprofit’s rebrand depends on your goals.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

But if the event meets your goals for revenue and awareness, it might be ok. Both have their place and can be highly profitable. You can raise money with all kinds of fundraising events like parties, galas, sporting events, concerts… and the list goes on and on. With so many options, it can be hard to pick the right event for your situation.

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CauseVox

MAY 29, 2024

No more manually adjusting your progress, donors can see instantly how close you are to your goal, which encourages greater generosity. Using your donation tiers, impact metric, and any other messaging you want to place on the page, try to communicate the impact that each dollar raised helps to accomplish.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? The Four Elements of a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan When you walk through your nonprofit self-audit, you have four major tasks: clarifying your marketing goals, taking stock of your organizational assets, reviewing your systems, and tracking your progress.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Step 1: Set objectives and goals Start by outlining your campaign’s strategic purpose and objectives. Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ).

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