Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

Consider creating reporting dashboards that clearly display key metrics. By prioritizing clarity and providing support, you help grantees focus on their work and achieve the goals of their project or program. This also allows team members to provide timely and accurate responses to grantee inquiries, improving overall relationships.

Grants

Blackbaud

MAY 5, 2025

This includes a formal grading rubric that aligns the questions on your application to specific metrics. Your training should also show them how to apply the requirements based on the goals of the program. Establish, document, and implement evaluation criteria that reflect your mission and funding program guidelines.

Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 13, 2025

The bottom line, for our purposes in this blog, is that objectives are increments or building blocks of a larger, over-arching goal. Use metrics, data, or benchmarks. Relevant/Realistic: Make sure your objective aligns with broader goals and is meaningful. Download our NEW 2025 SMART Objectives Toolkit.

Grant Writing

Fundly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Whether youre raising money to fund a nonprofit initiative, support students at your school, or cover a personal expense, an online fundraiser can be an effective way to reach your goal. Access real-time data on campaign updates, page views, donations received, and other key metrics. Performance analytics. Social sharing buttons.

Funding

CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2025

Download our Free Complete Guide to CRMs for Nonprofits: 1. Customize your dashboard with saved views and widgets that show the metrics that matter most to your team, whether thats recent donations, donor retention rates, or campaign-specific progress. Lets dive in!

CRM

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Financial metrics like donor retention rate, average gift size, and grant application success rates provide a sense of how reliable your funding streams are. Compare your financial metrics, such as overhead costs and revenue diversity, against industry benchmarks to ensure you’re aligned with similar organizations.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year.

Donation

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Inconsistent data entry and lack of standardized metrics slow down progress. Download now A Four-Step Framework for Analytics Excellence Step 1: Streamline Your Data Collection Workflow Start by cleaning up the database and your data entry practices. Focus on capturing high-quality data that truly matters for your goals.

Software

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

If your community outreach programs are grant-funded, your funder likely requires you to report key metrics like the number of individuals served or how you were able to expand your programs into new areas. Cost Per Outcome Cost per outcome ties your expenses to a specific goal, making it easier to identify funding needs.

Finance

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Download our free guide, From Moments to Movements, to learn how nonprofits are unifying advocacy and fundraising to mobilize more supporters and keep them giving. Campaign reporting Impact isn’t just about activity; it’s about outcomes. Ready to see what unified advocacy can do? Want to turn advocacy into long-term support?

Lobbying

DoJiggy

JULY 15, 2025

A capital campaign website is a focused fundraising site designed to support a specific, big-picture goal, typically the construction of a new facility or major renovations to an existing one. Schools , churches, hospitals, and community organizations use these campaign micro-sites to rally support around a single, defined goal.

Metrics

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. Additionally, you can increase efficacy and accessibility, ensuring that all readers have a dynamic experience.

CRM

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

Download our free Complete Guide to Nonprofit CRMs : Crafting the Right Message Tone is everything when you’re reaching back out. Your goal isn’t to guilt anyone; it’s to reopen the door and convey, “We still need you, and you are creating meaningful change by supporting us.”

CRM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 9, 2025

At the heart of the update is Goldie, an AI-powered volunteer coach that helps users set goals and intentions, track progress, reflect on their personal impact, and recognize their ‘Golden Moments’ by integrating philanthropy into their lifestyle. The new Golden app is now available for download on iOS and Android.

AI

CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2025

When nonprofits run online fundraising campaigns, it’s easy to only focus on the big picturehitting that overall fundraising goal. With CauseVox, you can easily customize your donation tiers based on your organization’s fundraising goals. The good news? People are more likely to give (and even give more!)

Donation

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Our goal is to tackle a problem grant professionals often have to solve, while also sharing different ways Instrumentl’s platform can help grant writers win more grants. Do you have the reporting, the goal setting, and to keep track of those benchmarks that you need to be reporting on? That's the goal.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

MAY 21, 2025

The best approach to improving your donation form is to test and see what works, making small changes to achieve your goals. Before testing, know your baseline metrics average gift amounts and your forms conversion rate. Remember, optimization is an ongoing process, and each test brings you closer to achieving your goals.

Donation

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Others ask very few questions and don’t require much in the way of hard metrics. But regardless of what type of proposals you may be working on at this moment in time, there is one thing I can say with certainty: You will run into proposals that ask you to write out the goals, objectives, and outcomes for your program or project.

Goals

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: . Why Are Website Data Metrics Important? Top Website Data Metrics to Track. Why Are Website Data Metrics Important? .

Metrics

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.

Strategic Plan

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. You can get a downloadable project charter template on our resource center.

Software

Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Our ultimate goal: make it easy for anyone, including funders, to retrieve and reuse demographic data, relieving the burden on nonprofits asked to submit it in multiple ways, many times, to different funders. This information can also help you set benchmark KPIs and metrics that are important for your organization to track over time.

Demographics

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to prepare for December 3, and then execute a solid campaign. Download your Year-End & GivingTuesday Fundraising Toolkit: It may seem like you don’t need to do much to create a site for a 24-hour fundraising campaign, but don’t be so quick to push it down on the priority list.

Media

Blackbaud

JULY 24, 2024

They’ll consider how your financial activities align with your nonprofit’s overall strategic plan by answering the following questions: What are this organization’s financial goals (revenue generation targets, spending objectives, etc.)? Tracking financial metrics.

Finance

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. They’re organized, actionable and tell a complete story of how you’re going to achieve your goals. Understand Your Need & Goals.

Calendar

Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2024

Philanthropic organizations can embrace experimentation, innovation, and learning to identify what works best in advancing equity goals. Hold Yourselves Accountable: Building accountability into your grant-making process by establishing clear goals, metrics, and mechanisms for measuring progress toward equity.

Policies

AmpliFund

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Define Clear Objectives and Metrics Before awarding a grant, establish well-defined objectives and measurable outcomes. By setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals that are relevant to the award, both funders and recipients get a clear understanding of what the expectations are.

Grants

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission.

Calendar

Blackbaud

MARCH 19, 2024

Focus on Your Metrics Metrics will help you translate your data into action. You will be able to set goals and measure outcomes more effectively, propelling your nonprofit towards impactful innovation. As such, you can use your data to make better decisions, enhancing effectiveness and fostering innovation. Click here.

Nonprofit

Candid

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In addition to visualizations, the dashboard includes CSV downloads of the data presented. . It’s a goal that we’ll continue to pursue, but the reality is that we only have organizational-level data for the nonprofit sector at this time. Challenges in telling the full story .

Metrics

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In addition to the #GivingTuesday guide, For Momentum has provided an easy-to-use planner , which will help you track goals, metrics and assets. Not only did Tadlock Roofing offer to match donations to Boys Town up to $10,000, the president of Tadlock agreed to jump out of a plane if they met their goal.

Retail

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Do Market Research The goal for your lead magnet is to create a resource that people may find when they are using a search engine. Choose a Format Remember, your primary goal here isn’t to deliver a product or service. The goal is to build trust. Download The Complete Guide to Building Your Donation Page:

Nonprofit

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. For a deeper dive into visual storytelling, be sure to download this free comprehensive guide on how to develop high-impact videos. Did you hit your fundraising goal with 10 days left to go?

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support.

Goals

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Download our free Complete Guide to Fundraising Campaigns today and start building a winning campaign! In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Making progress on your campaign goals? Need some inspiration? What can $50 do?

Fundraising

Blackbaud

AUGUST 16, 2024

Do these vanity metrics look familiar to you? Free Report The Resilient Nonprofit Download now Second Challenge: Share Only What Is Meaningful to Donors Too often, our donor impact report represents our organization’s work, instead of showing the impact of donations.

Engineering

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Download your Virtual Fundraising Planning Guide and Template: Here are our top 23 ideas for virtual fundraising ideas : 1. You’ll want people to sign up, potentially pay a registration fee, set an activity goal , and have a date and time where everyone runs at the same time on their own. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

Fundraising