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. Effective stewardship reporting not only builds trust with donors but also ensures compliance with legal and ethical obligations.

Finance

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Ethical Considerations and Community Responsibility Sponsorships in schools should be pursued thoughtfully. Transparency and ethical practices are essential to maintain trust among parents, administrators, and students. Evaluate : Collect feedback, track event metrics, and keep records. Recognize areas for improvement.

Fundraising

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Financial Metrics : Charity Navigator evaluates organizations based on financial efficiency, sustainability, and growth. Impact on Fundraising BBB WGA accreditation signals to donors that a charity adheres to high ethical standards and has been operating for a minimum of two years, which can enhance trust and support.

Finance

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

User Engagement Metrics like bounce rate, dwell time and click-through rate show whether your site is delivering value. Accessibility Screen reader support, alt text, high-contrast design and simple navigation aren’t just ethical priorities – they now directly impact your site’s SEO.

AI

Bonterra

JULY 16, 2025

Socially responsible companies focus on values, ethics, and using their resources to make the world a better place. For instance, CSR initiatives may include environmental sustainability efforts, ethical labor practices or fair trade, philanthropy, or community engagement. Social responsibility.

Ethics

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Use ethical and organized data collection methods. However, you’ll need to consider the ethics of collecting this information. The three main ethics to keep in mind are consent, confidentiality, and communication. However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics.

Ethics

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

Ethics of ChatGPT Usage As you can see from these examples, ChatGPT is a powerful tool. When using ChatGPT, it’s important to consider the ethical implications of your interactions with the AI language model. This includes tracking metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and donations received.

ChatGPT

Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

To accomplish this, track metrics like participation rates, supporter acquisition and retention, total revenue raised, and conversions from each marketing channel. This way, they can shop more ethically and support your mission without spending any extra money or taking time out of their daily lives.

Fundraising

Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

Watch the video clip “How do we work better with nonprofits? And a lot comes down to the systems. How do we tie that data together? For example, Dawn shared how her organization offers nonprofits practical resources and tools to help to get started.

Demographics

GrantNews

MARCH 1, 2024

How does it work, and what are the ethical implications? As such, ethical usage demands we recognize it is a tool that simply makes our work a little easier and more productive. With the proper understanding and ethical use of this technology, it has the transformative power to completely reshape how nonprofits operate.

ChatGPT

CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Your organization probably generates and collects a lot of data, and AI-powered data analytics tools can help you gain insights into donor behavior, program outcomes, and other key metrics. However, it also presents several challenges and ethical considerations that must be taken into account.

AI

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We will touch on some ethical considerations in a moment, but the bottom line is stories convert people from strangers to supporters. The best way to craft ethical stories is to ask those you serve what story they want told. It demonstrates that your cause is tangible and that your organization is actively making a difference.

Nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)? What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)?

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Moreover, strategic planning aids in establishing organizational direction and focus, mitigating risks, and setting forth clear performance metrics, targets, and timelines to assess progress and achievements organization-wide as well as at the programmatic level. This is particularly crucial when it comes to pursuing government grants.

Grant Readiness

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

AI has no ethical basis for considering the writing it scans or for considering the writing it creates. While AI creators have some quality control measures for this information, we know from experience that much of what we read on the internet is inaccurate, biased, or outdated.

AI

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Reduced reporting requirements and shared metric development with grantee partners: Evaluation should help us understand what’s not working , not just what is, and it should be useful for the grantee partner as well as HF. If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

Metrics

Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Some nonprofits have made an ethical decision not to be on Facebook—and there are many ethical concerns with this extraordinarily powerful tool— but it’s hard to make up the opportunity you lose by disengaging from Facebook. With more than 2.9 There is no substitute for going where your audience already hangs out.

Media

The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Check out the following metrics to ascertain how effective your programs are in supporting your mission: Program descriptions. Using both of the metrics above and relevant financial data, evaluate whether enough funding has been allotted for your initiatives. Let’s explore some others. How about an influx in beneficiaries?

Nonprofit

CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

Scheduling tools let you monitor the progress of your campaigns, track engagement metrics, and measure the impact of your social media efforts. Hootsuite Hootsuite allows you to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule posts in advance, and track metrics to assess the effectiveness of your fundraising campaigns.

Media

CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

In our ethics and value-focused corporate culture, companies are now proving that they care about causes through corporate social responsibility initiatives. There are virtually an unlimited number of ways for a business to support a nonprofit. What’s In It For The Company?

Fundraising

Critical Fundraising

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Evan Feinberg says the efficiency metrics used by ratings agencies such as Charity Navigator aren’t the right ones. See also Kevin’s variation on this them on LinkedIn , which also contains a response from the report’s author, Jess Crombie. Is a nonprofit truly effective?

Lobbying

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2021, APRA (formerly the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement) issued the APRA Ethics And Compliance Committee Diversity, Equity And Inclusion (DEI) Data Guide. Organizational leaders who have shied away from collecting data that would help them identify under-solicited communities have had good reason for doing so.

Fundraising

DoJiggy

JULY 23, 2024

Comparison of Performance Metrics A nonprofit’s success is measured by how effectively it achieves its mission and impacts its chosen cause. This might include metrics like the number of people helped or the extent of issue awareness raised. A for-profit business measures success in terms of profitability, growth, and market share.

Nonprofit

Center for Major Gifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

However, you can measure early success through metrics like the number of new commitments and the growth of your legacy society. Identifying Potential Donors Analyze your donor database to identify potential planned giving prospects. Planned giving is a long-term strategy, and it may take several years to see significant financial results.

Pass-Through

Selfish Giving

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Silicon Valley , nonprofits are attracting money from tech donors using the language and mindsets of business, and focusing on metrics, data, and effectiveness, rather than the language of altruism and ethics. ???Mobile Persuasion occurs through identification. Mobile is the FIRST screen. But of course it was the pinky finger.

Automotive