Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” ” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood! government agencies ii.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Organizations that do have a strategic plan continually express the advantages that this type of preparation gives them. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Looking to dig deeper into some data, but not quite sure if different pieces of information relate to each other? Part 3 in our Beyond the Pie Chart series digs into the wonderful world of scatter plots. These tips from Tableau's Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? spanhidden.

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

In other words, women at the top of nonprofit organizations make about 72 cents for every dollar made by men. This is largely consistent with last year’s analysis , when the nonprofit CEO equal pay day fell on June 8, 2021. Larger organizations tend to have higher compensation. Let’s unpack these differences further.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s take a look at how these organizations and other nonprofits can overcome data silos with integration. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos? Arcadia recommends researching your own organization’s needs to identify which solution makes the most sense for you.

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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. That’s not too surprising but some of the other charts might be of interest to you and your organization. More than one million people have done so to date. source: Wolfram Blog.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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. Listening to other organizations. Give your organization and yourself time.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Statement of Activities—commonly referred to as an SOA—is one of four essential financial statements for nonprofit organizations. Preparing your statement requires accurate, up-to-date financial information. Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

the median compensation among all staff at any given organization). grantmaking organizations–to which Candid has contributed for over a decade–provide a straightforward look at staff remuneration. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No. How do U.S.

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Blue Fox

APRIL 11, 2022

The simple answer is that our client is recovering from a not-so-good bookkeeper who made lots of mistakes and has since left the organization. Then we provide access, information, and analysis to give clients the power to make strategic, data-driven decisions. ​​It wasn't any ONE thing that was catastrophic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Subject Area: View the distribution of a specific organization’s funding by subject areas, including an “and/or” search function. Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). Journalism News and Information.

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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. Information flows. Think of a Tower-like organization where staff aren't encouraged to network or within siloed departments.) Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Yes, the process of creating your own information design is straightforward but you need to invest some energy learning about design fundamentals and honing your visual thinking skills. And then there is mastering the tools. Take this template that helps you think about how to use color and chunk your information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In organizations, people struggle to capture knowledge and to find answers across organizational boundaries and silos. A new comfort with transparency combined with easy access to online social networking tools, makes it easy to share what we do, but also how we do it. Show Your Work by Jane Bozarth. The Connect Effect by Michael Dulworth.

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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.

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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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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. Your annual report should communicate the success of your organization and its financials in a concise, visual way. Girls Who Code. Power Poetry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The guide is organized by four key questions and includes a mix of practical tips and case studies featuring Jewish organizations and others. I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization. The four key questions are: What data to collect? How to collect data?

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Fundraising data has many touch-points throughout your organization. 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. Do you have the right donor information? Nothing new there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Without that information, you won’t know what you need to adjust, scrap, or continue doing. Without this information, you’re flying blind. Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For instance, your major gift officer may use an app to look up more information about major prospects prior to initial meetings. 25+ Fundraising Apps for Your Nonprofit to Consider Fundraising apps can be powerful tools for raising more for your mission, but each one is different and will provide different benefits to your organization.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can learn about other organizations in your area, analyze giving trends, and download data directly from their site.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

We’ve all seen the charts, where our actions directly affect outcomes. This predictive score is assigned to you in order to provide information to lenders on your probability of making timely payments in the future. Recently, Blackbaud data scientists performed a cluster analysis of 1.4 Are we flattening the curve? Nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It doesn’t matter if you’re a teenager, a parent, a business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or a nonprofit organization: money can be difficult to come by these days. Even in times of economic prosperity, many nonprofit organizations have to fight in order to maintain a steady flow of funding. Information about your organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. At SXSW, I did a workshop with Carie Lewis and David Neff who assessed their organization’s measurement practices along the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly continuum. Click to See Larger Version.

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provideds the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. For nearly three years now, Blackbaud has continued to expand the number of organizations and giving represented in the analysis. Public and Society Benefit organizations were down 8.6% Overall Fundraising Trends.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I know that as good, smart people working at good, smart organizations, we believe in the power of transparency. Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime. You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Different nonprofits define the levels differently, so what qualifies as “mid-level” in one organization may qualify as “major” at another. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. Where you draw these lines is less important than how you think about your audiences. . However, digital can be a bit trickier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” Denial: You can’t measure social media! Learning Analytics. I tested each one.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters? The tweet chat covered why data is important for nonprofits and libraries, how to identify what data to collect, and provided guidance on software resources organizations could use for collecting and analyzing data. Here are some of the highlights.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. This live event will focus on visual tools designed to assist organizations in seeking support. Pacific time. Register for the webinar here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Measuring Too Much. Little or nothing happened as a result. Over-thinking It.

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