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Topping the charts in 2022: The 10 most-read Candid blogs 

Candid

Topping the charts of most-read Candid blogs of 2022: the overhead myth. Here are just a few phrases, words, and acronyms he suggests avoiding: “Does that make sense?”, “devasted”, and “differently-abled.”. They also delve into how Candid is working to fill this void to help ensure our sector can access real-time and accurate data.

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Useful Tips & Resources for Your Nonprofit’s Annual Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit managers working on annual reports most frequently ask these five questions. You don’t need a beautiful, full-color, glossy 40-page production, but you do need some sort of accounting of the organization’s work over the past year. What difference did it make? Do we Really Need an Annual Report? What were the results?

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How To Write An Impactful Nonprofit Annual Report

Eric Jacobsen Blog

To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year. Where will we tell our key messages in different ways (Executive Director letter, photo captions, etc.)? Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it).

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. It can also be used to create work norms or processes. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it.

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The Only Time You Should Use a Pie Chart for Your Nonprofit's Data

Tech Soup

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. When to Use a Pie Chart. As we state in our white paper, Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? Pro Tips for Pie Charts.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emotional – harness the energy and passion of the team working to achieve them. The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. percent change, percent difference). Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g.,

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