M+R

APRIL 27, 2023

The maître d’ has called your name, the table is set, and the napkins are folded up like fancy little swans: it’s time to dig in to a year’s worth of M+R Benchmarks charts, findings, and insights at mrbenchmarks.com ! yes) The full feast of data and analysis is waiting for you at mrbenchmarks.com.

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Benchmark Studies Social Media Chart 100

Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) . An analysis of organizations and projects funded against Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System validates her statement. . i] Comprehensive data about grantees was not available for every analysis. Analysis is based on grantees that are U.S.-based

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Puerto Rico Fund Group Organization 128

M+R

APRIL 27, 2022

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . The complete data and analysis are available to explore for free at mrbenchmarks.com. Read time: 2 minutes. Pack your bags, lock your tray table, and fasten your seatbelt: the 2022 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for takeoff.

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Benchmark Studies PDF Analysis 84

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. So, in this blog, we’ll highlight the 10 most important features of Tableau that help businesses in visualizing better. Trend Lines & Predictive Analysis. Informative Dashboards.

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Chart Map Data Database 52

NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The nice folks at Wolfram Blog have created a set of charts identifying how people talk on Facebook as they age. source: Wolfram Blog. source: Wolfram Blog. That’s not too surprising but some of the other charts might be of interest to you and your organization.

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Social Media People Media Chart 124

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

To explore how these salaries compare with other staff, we first limited the analysis to 646 organizations that reported a salary for their CEO and at least two other full-time staff among the 35 listed roles. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No.

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Ratio Survey Sample Report 105

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Keep an eye on nonprofit blogs and bookmark pages that offer new perspectives. . It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results.

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Results Nonprofit PowerPoint Map 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? .

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

In this blog, I examine equal pay day for CEOs and executive directors in the social sector. This is largely consistent with last year’s analysis , when the nonprofit CEO equal pay day fell on June 8, 2021. This year’s analysis suggests a small step toward pay parity. When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders?

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Social Analysis National Data 105

M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . Read time: 2 minutes. We are excited to report that the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for you.

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Benchmark Studies Hunger FAQ 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click! On the grantmaker side, it allows you to do a systems analysis to see how your funding investment fits into the sector.

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Map Fund Data Tools 76

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. Additionally, this digital shift to increased data interoperability means less chart chasing and improved quality care.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Chart Tutorial Template PowerPoint 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Secret #8.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily.

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues. Please consult your accountant for financial decisions.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” from MIT in rocket science.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. It will help you understand how graphic elements – type, color, arrangement, and graphics can help you communicate the results of your data analysis so others will understand it. I hope you have a fabulous holiday!

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Network Data Chart Case Study 134

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. This makes the numbers easier to digest, and when you put contributions in terms of helping individuals, they’ll feel more connected to the cause.

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Money Donor Chart Ratio 64

Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s an all-to-common scenario: a new user to WordPress builds their site, goes live and starts blogging or selling or raising funds without giving much thought into how their site’s performing. The post Best to Test: Tools for Gauging your WordPress Site’s Speed and Performance appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Test WordPress Plugin Tools 100

3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

This post pulls together insights and recommendations that we have made since last year’s appeal and organizes them into a helpful list, with references to past blog posts and other sources. Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. Hope this helps. Your 8-step fundraising data checklist. #1

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Data Time Fundraising Retention 184

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis?

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Map Network San Francisco Analysis 57

Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Oftentimes with other applications, data needs to be prepped before it can be converted into visual form (such as a graph or chart), whether that means adding a column, combining data sets, inserting a new formula, or the like. The exact opposite is true. Images: SAP.

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Data Chart Report Oracle 44

The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Watch the video version of this blog post below or read on for all the details. Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? Are you working on your year-end campaign or building up a new seasonal campaign?Let

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Campaign Fundraising Channel Mail 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Resource Practice Data Work 105

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. We could write a whole blog post on this topic alone, but here’s the quick version: .

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

That’s some great advice from KD Paine for the last chapter of our forthcoming book , ”Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” which is on data analysis and turning data in action. So, look at every chart, every graph, every number and ask does it make sense.

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Map Twitter Washington Chart 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Facilitation Arts Pakistan Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs!

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Google Analytics – [link].

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I used for anytime I teach a workshop or give a presentation. It is a Twitter analytics tool.

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Twitter Tools Learning Measure 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. Know What Success Is.

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98