sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Tip 1: Before applying for a government grant, perform a financial integrity risk assessment.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

So, when it comes to communicating your impact story, many foundations need to rely on the data in their form 990 to tell their story. Understanding your grantee data through clear data governance is an essential part of managing and communicating your foundation’s impact story. The key is to be intentional.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Seems reasonable, right?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

At its most basic, a good budgeting workflow is a balance of the people who can make informed decisions, technology to manage the data, and documented processes for redundancy. Data and Technology : Understand the information you have available and where to find it. What Does a Nonprofit Budgeting Process Include?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 52

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. Visualize your data like never before.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. You can picture your data like never before within EveryAction.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. Collecting and maintaining good data is key to this.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. 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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. A data entry clerk may have just changed the location from which the data was entered and the workflow to receive it. Some went virtual, and others simply closed.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Funds typically come from three main sources: major gifts , corporations, and grants — with the bulk of the money coming from major gifts. Typically, these prospects include individual donors, corporations, and grant funders. You need employees or volunteers to stuff envelopes and do data entry.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon Takeaway #1: Small investments in data quality will yield big returns. Morale suffers – poor data quality leads to a downward spiral: staff members lose confidence in the integrity of the data, who then take less care in the data they enter, and may even revert back to basic spreadsheets and other archaic data management methods.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Highlight key performance indicators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Since then, we’ve been using these data to share key nonprofit sector trends on issues like the rising demand for services, shrinking government support, and the precarious financial health of organizations. Granted, there are very real limits to the time and resources that a volunteer board can give. nonprofit practice.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work. There's a new section on "Charting Impact" — five questions that probe the results of a charity's work. Here are a few reasons why updating your profile is so useful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% Granted, due to the limitations of fully automated conversion, this is not perfect braille, and we continuously work with experts to improve the quality of our Braille Ready Files (in the BRF format).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2017

Whether it’s a picture of people being served or a colorful chart showing the total funds raised, visuals can strike a chord that words alone often miss. With the growing access to data and data mining tools, nonprofits have a wealth of knowledge to help them like never before. Where Data and Visuals Collide.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view. Donors don’t like duplication of services, and getting grants will be tough if you can’t articulate how your approach is unique. You need to have the data to prove it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It may be time to look for a purpose-built fund accounting system when you begin managing a variety of different funds and restrictions, when you have trouble getting a financial picture of your entire organization, or when you need to expand your internal controls past the functionality of your current system. Think Bigger!

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Whether you are part of a housing authority or a parks and recreation department, you need to quickly differentiate revenue from fees for a specific program and grants that require detailed reporting. Help your team be more productive by removing complex procedures and giving them a single source of truth for your data.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. So there are different pictures that happen. . So use your social media in a way that’s another notch above just posting a picture and saying thank you.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. Be Generous with Data—Water for People Ned Breslin from Water for People preached to the choir of the importance of using data to drive successful programs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. However, AnnieCannons is also like a business, which is where data and process management gets a little more complicated. Destiny Rescue.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Every time we turn around, somebody’s bringing another piece of technology, something that generates data into our organizations. You invest money and budget, data stored in there. So I can picture your office or your home office. Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . We all deal with a lot of stuff.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

You can draw pictures in OneNote with your mouse (or with your finger/stylus on a touchscreen) if you're a visual note-taker. In addition to your sketches, you can also insert pictures, charts, tables, documents, videos, and more into your notes. Evernote is free for up to 60MB per month of data.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well. The first step: Identifying your community. But think about it in more detail. Where’s the sweet spot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. Rather than bringing the boards of multiple organizations together to have conversations about sharing data and knowledge, the data would already be exposed and already be interchangeable. Where to go from here.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2016

Whether you’re unveiling the first round of logos to your clients, walking through a data analysis with your grant funder, or even aggrandizing your work experience on that crucial face-to-face job interview, coming across as confident, prepared, and engaging is just as important as the words coming out of your mouth.

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