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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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10 Things Your Nonprofit Home Page Must Have

NTEN

Clear, intuitive navigation that is organized according to the brain of the people who come to your website and NOT your org chart. A 2-second statement that sums up who you are and what you do so that anyone glancing at the page gets it right away.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . The only thing stopping you from doing them, the only thing stopping you from dropping the rock is your own brain. Definitely, you can always throw an extra planning cycle in.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Sometimes a system owner is like the person whose budget pays for that product, so director of development, VP of development, philanthropy manager, whatever title you have in your org. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Harvey: When I worked in international development, we said, okay, this org, we’re spending 8% on administration, this organization spends only 4%.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Beth Kanter’s guest star, Ann Emory, offers up the Top Ten Chart Secrets from a Nonprofit Data Nerd. Why reason alone doesn’t work in fundraising suggests that appealing to your supporters’ analytical nature isn’t enough to inspire a gift. Tell stories.

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