Hidden value of activism - Full Citizen presentation
2011 e nonprofit benchmarks study dijulio
1. 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study #11NTCBenchmarks M+R Strategic Services NTEN Defenders of Wildlife League of Conservation Voters
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28. How the League of Conservation Voters uses data Presented by Vinnie Wishrad
29. Who is LCV? Our mission The League of Conservation Voters works to turn environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV advocates for sound environmental policies, and elects pro-environment candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. Our File 384,000 deliverable emails 155,523 members 132,655 have taken action in the last year
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40. About Defenders Our MissionDefenders' mission is to protect species and the habitats upon which they depend. In doing so, we focus on preserving the health of our nation's rich biological heritage (biodiversity). Our File ~890k emailable ~591K have taken action online ~98k have ever donated online ~47k have Adopted an animal online ~134k are offline donors (DM, TM, etc.)
41. Benchmarks Internal: What are yourstats? External: How do your stats compare to those of your peers?
43. Optimization: Subject Lines Headline: Congress Greenlights Wolf SlaughterBeats Cryptic: Wolf SlaughterBeats Generic: Take Action to Stop the Wolf Slaughter
46. Optimization: Thank You PageAction to Donation What Worked… Straight Donation Ask Robust Tell-a-Friend + Donation Ask What Didn’t…
47. Key Questions How do your numbers compare to those of your peers? Strategy: Where are the areas for improvement? Tactics: What are you going to lift response rates?
48. Benchmarks and You Download the report at www.e-benchmarksstudy.com Contact the authors at Email sdijulio@mrss.com Want to be part of our research? Email speretz@mrss.com
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Editor's Notes
Need to confirm with Anna that we can get our hashtag into their system
Drop in new logos - Sarah
Note that the major differences we saw in terms of size:small groups sent 1 fewer emails per month, and December uptick
- does unsub correlate with open? Steve will check
Wildlife groups => baby animals! combination of how good the groups are + whether or not fans are passionate + issue is something people can be passionate about (combination), not working as well with InternationalTease the Benchmarks mini-report released exclusively on Facebook <Steve will confirm with Holly need to mention to Holly and confirm first; figure out what we're going to call it (addendum... something...?); Steve will send out brainsquall
LCV prides itself on running a data-driven testing. We do regular testing on advocacy, fundraising, and recruitment.
Today, we’re going to be focusing on one campaign we recently ran – our 2011 Membership Drive that we ran this January. We started running Membership Drives in January 2008 and since then, it’s been one of our most successful campaigns every year. Each year, we run a series of tests and build on the best practices learned from previous years. Some of the tactics we rolled out this year are: Integrating online and offline membership renewal data. Launching a membership discount to non-donors Asking sustainers to increase their monthly gift Offering a reusable grocery bag as a premium for non-donors. Previously, we’ve tested premiums with all segments of the file and the non-donor pool is the only group with which we see the response rate significantly increase, so we’ve started only offering it to that group. This year, we launched a 6 message series during the month of January and tried some new tactics and tests…
First, we tested an up-sell lightbox versus a checkbox inviting people to become a sustainer in addition to making their one-time gift.
We also offered a Membership discount to non-donors in the 5th and 6th appeal of the series. We did not test this since while we would LOVE to test everything, there sometimes isn’t time. M+R knew from other data that this was an effective tactic, so we tried just rolling it out to non-donors at the end of the series.
Just after our campaign concluded, there was a NEW attack on the EPA. Our campaign had been going very well compared to our internal benchmarks for previous Membership Drives, but we were slightly short of our public goal.
We had a very successful Membership Drive in 2008 but since then, we’ve grown our list and our primary goal is to build on our response rate from previous year. Thanks in part to our very successful deadline-extended message this year, we increased the overall campaign response rate in 2011 to beat our response rate from 2009 and 2011 as well as surpass M+R’s new 2011 Benchmarking response rate for all sectors.
We’re continuing our rigorous testing program in the coming months. Right now, we’re in the middle of testing a standard Convio TAF page versus…
Versus a new tell-a-friend page that pushes social networking share links. We’ve started testing this, but haven’t seen significant results yet.
Need to confirm with Anna that we can get our hashtag into their system
