Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. Maybe you are scratching your head and thinking, but I’m not a visual designer. Stare at your charts and graphs and numbers. 5) Choose the Right Display.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Financial reports contain critical information for decision making, but the managers of nonprofit organizations won’t absorb that information if they don’t engage with the reports. The larger the organization, the more resources it can bring to bear on transaction entry and the faster it should be able to close.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Even using charts and graphs can help a lot. Here you can review a comparison of virtual tools. If it’s a donor , maybe you’re suffused with anxiety as you navigate the divide between serving and cultivating the donor and most effectively serving your organization. “I If you’re meeting in person, try to draw simple pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. From monthly budgets to a roster of event attendees, it’s wonderful to be able to see your data organized clearly in neat rows. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

The study reported traffic decreased across 18 of 19 nonprofit verticals , with Canadian organizations being the exception. (It Assuming you’re using Google Analytics*, here are 4 steps you can take: Year-Over-Year Comparison. Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison. What’s the reason? Examine Visits.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2017

Total expected fundraising = today’s fundraising / % from chart based on # of days out. Example of the predictive model for a peer to peer event: I’m organizing a walk that takes place in the next 30 days. Today there are 2,000 people registered and $100,000 in fundraising in the bank.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Where appropriate, we’ll also draw out some conclusions and comparisons to help contextualize where and how GivingTuesday can fit into your nonprofit’s overall strategy. But healthy donor retention numbers within Neon CRM users show that donors are more than happy to support organizations they’ve previously been involved with.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. This could include noting different points of data exploration, such as filtering data views or comparing specific charts.

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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. Underutilizing What You Have. The moral of the story?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Year over Year Comparison. ” You’ll end up with some pretty well formatted charts and graphs to showcase your findings, too! .” ” You’ll end up with some pretty well formatted charts and graphs to showcase your findings, too! Bookmark it. Share it with colleagues. Group Rebuilding Specifics.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

is fundraising and donor management software that can help your church organize and manage fundraising campaigns and donations. With so many choices in this category, you might have a look at our donor management comparison chart to help you decide which ones are suitable for your church. Last but not least, Telosa Exceed!

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. is our go-to backchannel chat destination to keep teams organized and sharing information during events. No matter what type of interactive experience you are looking to share with your organization, we are here to help. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Within a system are stakeholders that can include individuals, organizations, networks of organizations, the range of their actions, their ways of thinking vis-à-vis the issue, and the natural and man-created environmental factors that influence the system. Stakeholders may or may not identify themselves as participants in the system.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Are you struggling to turn your data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story? That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart. Part 1 covered some basic terminology and why you shouldn't use a pie chart.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. As a point of comparison, the U.S. It’s in our org charts. But expect to see a widening gap in performance between organizations that are continuously optimizing and those that are standing still.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

And you probably struggle to turn that data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story. That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. One in three. But is it right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. How much time will it take?

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

The members of your nonprofit’s Board of Directors are many things: knowledgeable and successful in their areas of focus, community leaders, passionate about your mission, and important decision-makers for your organization. Fund Accounting Software that Drives Impact Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT® fits your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. A second example would be a slide with bulleted text.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. A second example would be a slide with bulleted text.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

To help you pick the right one for your organization, we put together a helpful VoIP solution comparison chart of what we offer. Be sure to check out our donor management comparison chart so you can pick the best tool for your organization. What cloud products does your organization use? spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

To help you pick the right one for your organization, we put together a helpful VoIP solution comparison chart of what we offer. Be sure to check out our donor management comparison chart so you can pick the best tool for your organization. What cloud products does your organization use? spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2017

billion in online gifts in 2016 from more than 4,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. As a point of comparison, in 2016 the median offline gift less than $1,000 was $20. Medical Research Organizations have the Smallest Online Gift Size: The Medical Research sector has an online average gift of $89.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

Do you remember the chart your teacher had on the bulletin board or hanging right off the front of his/her desk? Whether it is the top score in Pac Man, bonus programs in business, or your 3rd grade teacher’s star chart, achievement systems can be powerful external motivators. By Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Constituent relationship management (CRM) tools can help you keep track of donors as well as your organization's other constituents. If you only need a donor management solution, be sure to check out our donor management comparison chart so you can pick the best tool for your organization. Donor Management Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2015

Today’s social sector organizations need to be able to gather, analyze and share data. We know this because we regularly hear from organizations that are struggling to develop effective data visualizations. As a co-founder of a design firm, I work to help social sector organizations avoid these pitfalls. How old is she?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Imagine donating money to a cause you believed in and never hearing back from the nonprofit organization. Use charts to present statistics and financial figures. Here’s how you can use different types of charts to communicate impact: Highlight a single data point (use donut charts). It leaves a bitter feeling, doesn’t it?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

Together, the Salesforce.org Impact Labs Community Fellows identified a few areas that need improvement: the first was ways to engage the community to ensure any solution would be sustainable, and the second was to improve the ability to get funding for climate organizations. SZ: So, what came out of this Impact Labs?

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