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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

This statement is crucial for demonstrating how effectively your nonprofit manages its resources. These resources can offer timely insights into changes in accounting standards and how they affect your organization. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available.

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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

The chart below compares the proportion of nonprofits by subject area overall (in blue) with that of the subset of nonprofits sharing demographic data (in orange). In the chart below, we compared sharing rates by different staffing levels and demographic categories, including race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood!

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Year End Resource Roundup

Connection Cafe

Either way, I thought a little roundup of my favorite end of year fundraising resources for Luminate Online clients could be helpful. Year over Year Comparison. Just log into the Luminate Customer Center and scroll over “Free Resources” then scroll to “Monthly Webinars.” End of Year One-Stop Shopping. Bookmark it.

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How to Prepare Donor Data Reports for Your Board Members

Bloomerang

Giving them the resources and data they need to effectively analyze your fundraising performance will empower them to help your organization to the fullest extent. Doing so can be as simple as sharing a chart with these metrics from the past year: Total dollars raised: overall dollars acquired through fundraising initiatives.

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

The larger the organization, the more resources it can bring to bear on transaction entry and the faster it should be able to close. A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field.

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