Tony Martignetti

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Two finance and audit pros walk us through six key metrics that anyone can understand, and that reveal the true state of your financial … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for October 16, 2023: Financial Literacy For Your C-Suite & Board → It also protects the people filling those roles. It also protects the people filling those roles.

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics. News & World Report metric of alumni participation , the impact of this ranking indicator is going to show in our data for years.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Many prefer to fund shiny, specific programs with catchy titles and easy metrics. Skilled grant writers include metrics that show organizational efficiency, lean operations, and smart strategy. Because core operating supportthe golden goose of grant fundingis maddeningly hard to secure. Its not that funders dont know you need it.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

By tracking key metrics, you can measure the duration and quality of your donor relationships and identify areas for improvement. Track these metrics using your nonprofit constituent relationship management system (CRM) and fundraising software. Thats why post-event follow-up is essential to your overall event strategy.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Use metrics to back this up. Create an annual grants calendar that shows: Priority funders Application deadlines Target ask amounts Estimated notification dates This transforms you from a grant chaser to a grants strategist. It also helps leadership understand that not all grants are created equal. Show average nonprofit success rates.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These key event metrics quantify the success of your events, and can show you how to improve them. Tracking these key event metrics can deliver critical insight into what you’re doing well, and where your events need improvement. So what are those metrics, and what data do you need to track to analyze them?

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2025

We also have email, the internet, and social media, just to name a few. Its not only the volume of options, its also the content. And in our current climate of crisis and uncertainty, its information overload on steroids. How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? But in this deluge of information, they might miss your messages.

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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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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Features include real-time, dynamic progress metrics and a new donate button designed to inspire action. One-quarter of Gen Z also responded they were inspired to look into or donate to a cause because of social media. In the U.S., Instagram and Instagram Stories integration, allowing sharing that was not previously available. *

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The Fundraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

One of the biggest challenges we face as major gift fundraisers is balancing two distinct ways of thinking: our internal, metrics-driven mindset versus the donor-focused approach that builds relationships. In the office, we're measured by revenue, the number of donors engaged, meetings booked, and Asks made (and successfully closed!).

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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. Focus on Long-Term Sustainability 5.1

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

They pick a goal, define strategies, and stay focused on the small handful of metrics that measure the execution of the strategy. Events, social media, and marketing are only small links in a much bigger chain of interactions with supporters. Marketing experts call this TMM: Too Many Messages, inundating the audience with too many choices.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Testing and optimization: By defining clear objectives and success metrics, a direct response fundraising agency ensures data-driven decisions. The messages you send are more than fundraising appeals ; theyre opportunities to nurture relationships, share your story, and inspire action. Use short sentences, simple language, and contractions.

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The Fundraiser Coach

MARCH 30, 2025

In unsettled times, it’s tempting to focus on metrics: number of meetings, dollars raised, goals hit. In today’s landscape, with economic uncertainty causing some donors to hesitate or take more time for considering larger major gifts, building connection isn’t simply a “warm fuzzy.” It happens in conversation.

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Future Fundraising Now

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Focus more on improving the metrics that matter most, like net revenue and retention rate, and focus less on metrics like likes and awareness. Those vanity metrics that dont lead directly to revenue are a waste of time and money. Anything you want to succeed at needs a system with metrics. Build a donor pipeline.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 24, 2025

Mistake #6: Neglecting Data and Metrics Fail: Decisions are based on anecdotes rather than data-backed evidence. Track key metrics: Review donation retention rates, average gift size, cost per dollar raised, and lifetime donor value. We all make mistakes. Its a normal part of life, work, and fundraising.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

If you have other metrics you have used, please share! Early in my fundraising career, my then boss gave me a great piece of advice to celebrate wins. What she meant was to not only look at how much money you raised, but to evaluate the many other indicators of progress that can often be overlooked. What was last years conversion rate?

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We’ve all received cringe-worthy fundraising messages that just don’t feel quite human. They’re vague, don’t explain the impact of the donation, and ask for an arbitrary amount of money. If an appeal feels like it was written by a robot, it likely was generated by AI.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 17, 2024

We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. And every advocate for social good has much to gain by paying attention to the Information half of IT.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2025

Making this shift includes moving beyond traditional metrics of success that prioritize short-term results over long-term sustainability and embracing approaches that are relational, equitable, and human-centered. And many funders are stepping up to address the well-being of those doing mission-driven work. Similarly, the John D.

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Clairification

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We think of value as a hard metric—the anticipated fair exchange of this for that. Yet one side of the exchange is a hard metric: The donor’s cold, hard cash. As my husband is about to hand her the cash, she takes another handful of the pasta from behind the glass and adds it to our package. A value-for-value exchange.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Study Social Media Analytics Monitor Analytics Diligently This means tracking your website and social media metrics like page views, click-through rates, and the time spent on various sections of your website and social media platforms. These metrics can unveil which stories or content pieces resonate most with your audience.

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Candid

JUNE 11, 2025

Funders prioritize short-term metrics over long-term systemic change. What’s broken in the current nonprofit model? The current funding system incentivizes competition over collaboration. Nonprofits fight over limited, restricted dollars. It means designing solutions together and executing them in sync. So too must be our responses.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 14, 2025

For beginners, your success metrics and key performance indicators can provide essential direction. Each award category provides example proof points to guide you on metrics to share. Uncovering Your Narrative The initial step can often be the most challenging how do you determine which achievements deserve to be spotlighted?

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How to Measure: Use metrics like sponsorship revenue growth, cost of acquisition, and renewal rates to evaluate which partnerships are delivering the best financial returns. If a major donor decides to pull back or a grant isn’t renewed, it could jeopardize your programs.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JANUARY 24, 2025

While it is important that organizations identify the right potential funders , create a compelling needs section, write a persuasive program description , and incorporate the necessary metrics, there is another very important step that can often get overlooked. What attachments will we need? How do we prepare to apply? How do we get help?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 23, 2025

” Monitor Performance Regularly: Track key metrics like CTR and conversion rates, making adjustments as needed to maintain compliance and optimize results. Its potential impact on the nonprofit world is enormous, but its still relatively unknown and underleveraged. Campaigns must maintain a minimum 5% click-through rate (CTR).

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The order and word usage will differ but they each contain the following sections: Project Goals Scope of Work Current Roadblocks and Barriers to Success Evaluation Metrics and Criteria Submission Requirements These categories are all geared toward helping you ascertain whether your organization will qualify for funding.

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Future Fundraising Now

APRIL 23, 2025

As are other sound devices from the world of poetry, including: Pleasing rhythm or metrical structure. I know that rhyming’s out of date, but what it does is truly great. Advertisers used to do it a lot: Don’t get mad. Get GLAD and Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Unfortunately, rhyming is out of style. Consonance.

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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. To get the attention of your donors and increase their engagement, you can make your impact report come to life.

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amplifi

JANUARY 30, 2025

At amplifi, we use the 12-month metric but feel free to choose what works best for your audience. If youre like us and use the 12-month metric for active donors, you can consider anyone whose last gift was 13-23 months ago at risk of lapsing, and those who last gave 24 to 36 months ago as lapsed. Its no secret. Who should you target?

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Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2025

This finding is particularly puzzling because the majority of those surveyed expressed confidence in their abilities, in the effectiveness of their fundraising materials, and in the fairness of their performance metrics. ’” Cohen said. Nowadays, there’s much more skepticism. Develop tailored messaging. Time your outreach strategically.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 13, 2025

Use metrics, data, or benchmarks. Define the intended results so that they are Measurable: Attach a metric (e.g., “to a 90% average”). The bottom line, for our purposes in this blog, is that objectives are increments or building blocks of a larger, over-arching goal. What Are SMART Objectives?

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GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

As we reflect on the past year, we naturally wonder about the trends 2025 will bring nonprofits. While it is no surprise that trends are leaning towards AI and tech tools, you may be surprised to see how nonprofits might use AI. For example, AI can help a team build new and creative ways to connect donors and ensure they feel appreciated.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics. By Ryan Carpenter For the last several years, nonprofits have struggled to make ends meet due to falling revenue, rising inflation, and an increase in community needs. Charitable giving saw a 2.1% Perform a deep data analysis.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The good news, however, is that research indicates giving overall remains steady in an election year, despite the volatility of the election cycle, so your organization has an opportunity to keep donors engaged with your mission. Regardless of whether they donated before the election or in response to it, don’t treat rage donors as one-and-done.

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