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Donating to the NTC Scholarship Fund Helps the Sharing Continue: A Past Scholarship Recipient Reports

Submitted by Megan on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:53pm

NTC Scholarships don't just help first-time conference attendees. And that helps goes beyond just the scholarship recipient. TEXT "NTEN" to 25383 to donate $10 and nominate your scholarship attendee now!

This year's conference wasn't going to be a possibility for Amy Quinn, Content Curator & Speaker , Fundraising Innovators, LLC. However, through the community contributions to the NTC Scholarship Fund, Amy was able to attend this year and came back bursting with information to share.

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The 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Management Study: A Graphic Report

Submitted by Annaliese on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 7:00am

When it comes to tracking and using “engagement” data – the actions, interactions, and even conversations that relate to an organization’s work but don’t necessarily represent the transactional or financial data that have been traditionally used for measuring an organization’s health – today’s nonprofits are either tracking a lot, or hardly anything at all. And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes.

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Moving Your Database to the Cloud: Key Considerations to Prepare Your Move

Submitted on Wed, 5/8/2013 - 12:00am
It does not matter if you are small or big or if you are moving to the cloud to manage your donors, volunteers, dogs, cats, or trees: there are some things that you should keep in mind. Here are my top ten (and a bonus one at the end).

By Tal Frankfurt
Founder and CEO, Cloud for Good


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13NTC Sketchnotes: Creating a Social Media Insights Report

Submitted by Rob Cottingham on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 4:55pm

Jamie Millard and Chris Oien covered a lot of ground in Organizational Leadership with Social Media Insights, including some really useful tips on using Google Analytics' newer social reporting tools. I couldn't hope to capture it all, but their structure for a metrics report - tied to strategic goals - struck me as a great potential starting point for a lot of organizations hoping to start making some sense of all those numbers.

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Responsive Mapping Techniques And Mobile Geolocation

Submitted on Thu, 4/11/2013 - 7:00am
Content delivery in the future will happen less and less through a traditional web browser and you need to prepare now.
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A Survey from the Communities of Impact: Data Practices in the Nonprofit Sector

Submitted by Julia Smith on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 6:11am

The NTEN Communities of Impact participants are conducting a survey about how nonprofits use data. Learn more here, or if you can spare a few minutes, go straight to bit.ly/COIsurvey. Thank you!

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Mobile Matters: The Impact of Mobile Technology on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Submitted on Tue, 4/2/2013 - 8:02am
As we increasingly adopt mobile devices in our professional and personal lives, we are also turning to mobile technology to help us support charitable causes. We examined the fundraising success of 83,566 participants in a variety of peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns to find out more about mobile peer-to-peer giving trends.

By Claire Kerr
Director of Digital Philanthropy, Artez Interactive


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2013 eBenchmarks Are Here! And a Handy Infographic

Submitted by Annaliese on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 6:55am

2013 eBenchmarks Infographic2013 eBenchmarks InfographicIt's kind of our favorite time of year: our annual dose of data about email and online advocacy and fundraising activity.  With the analytics and campaign expertise of M+R Strategic Services, we are excited to release the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study!

You can get the complete report -- including important reference information like definitions of terms and metrics -- for free.

Don't forget: you can also attend the webinar on Tuesday, April 23rd, to hear from the report authors and some of the study participants.  Reserve your webinar spot online now.

And for a quick reference, take a gander at the 2013 eBenchmarks Infographic below:

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The 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study

Submitted by Annaliese on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 6:26am

It's kind of our favorite time of year: our annual dose of data about email and online advocacy and fundraising activity.  With the analytics and campaign expertise of M+R Strategic Services, we are excited to release the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study!

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Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

Submitted by Annaliese on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 6:35am

When is a meal more than a meal? When it’s served in a soup kitchen. Most soup kitchens serve double, triple, even quadruple duty as a community center, health center, temporary shelter, and a place to get job services. That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena.

Imagine if the soup kitchen knew what other services each client was receiving? And what holes in service they could recommend? If these organizations shared data, they could improve services and have a much clearer understanding of their impact.

Starting in 2011, a group of Nonprofit Technology Assistance Provider (NTAP) organizations worked together, applying this concept, to learn about our impact and discover opportunities for increasing impact and support for the nonprofit sector.

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