Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

Keeping track of your data over time helps you identify trends in user behavior and make informed decisions about how to optimize your analytics strategies. Quick tips to select the date and then choose the max rows because the PDF only snapshots the information you see in the report.

University 52

University Analytics Data API 52

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

A volunteer handbook gives volunteers the information they need about the organization and its mission, and answers any common questions they may have. Or maybe you think you don’t have enough information for a volunteer handbook. . Training opportunities: At minimum, you need an orientation to go over information in the handbook.

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Volunteer Create Policy Roles 119

Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

The chart below shows the percentage of nonprofits that have fiscal years ending in each month. Financial information taken from most recently available tax form. The majority of nonprofits (64%) align their fiscal year with the calendar year. That said, many large organizations choose June for their fiscal year end instead.

Calendar 52

Calendar Files Nonprofit Data 52

NetWits

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Original sentence: To get a chart of heart-healthy activities, click here. Rewrite: Review our chart of heart-healthy activities. Parallel construction” means organizing a series of thoughts (or bullets) using a similar grammatical structure or format.

Web 160

Web Chart Websites Search 160

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. In short, the process boils down to these steps: Capture the lesson learned (big or small) from your own observations or asking for informal feedback from participants during the event. It took us approximately 60 minutes.

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Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. The information is often shared and received by another funder as an appreciated heads-up. I can guess this happens in every community, and it is frightening. But somehow, we as a sector are expected to get our solutions right the very first time.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 77

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively. Show appreciation for their contributions and keep them informed about the impact of their donations. Use this information to optimize your fundraising efforts and make data-driven decisions.

Action 75

Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Using this framework, here are some of the major updates we’ve made: Enhanced presentation and clarity of information. We begin with a summary and then group your information into three categories: Programs and Results . This structure ensures that decision makers get the most important information about nonprofits quickly and easily.

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Profile Ratio Green Nonprofit 50

BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Reading and understanding these reports can be difficult for many board members, but there is so much important information there that great board members must learn to understand them so they can be real agents of change on the boards they join. The more information you capture, the more you need dimensions.

Report 40

Report Ratio Comparison Chart 40

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. Often, this means settling for (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint, but no more!

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Tools Chart Grant PowerPoint 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

We’ve become addicted to generating pretty charts and graphs, while taking any opportunity to play with any new (and especially free) social media measurement tool that we read about on blogs. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Photographer. Front of House team. Museum Management.

Social Media 95

Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. For more information and free resources visit CapitalCampaignPro.com. What should you do instead?

Campaign 52

Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Additionally, send out any other information that all Board members should have in order to feel equipped and up-to-speed for the meeting. Use a Consent Agenda A consent agenda gives you a way of structuring your meeting so that you can handle the routine things quickly, leaving more time for important conversations.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. The GAHC had been using Excel to manage campaigns but didn’t have a way to view each donor’s giving history and other crucial donor information. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

How people think and process information are one set of theories that include multiple intelligences , learning styles , and constructivism. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true when it comes to budget projections that will help inform the strategy of your organization in the coming year. Program Director Membership Fees KEEP COSTS LOW Maintain current membership fee structure while improving member benefits to boost retention.

Analysis 52

Analysis Project Donor Retention 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. If not, make sure the hand off is thorough, well informed, and supported. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes.

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Change Management Change Management Phase 108

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Any other "stakeholder" who uses or needs financial information to perform her/his job in the nonprofit. Once you have a vision and plan of how the reporting should come out of the system you can work backwards to determine the best structure and setup to use in QuickBooks. How does it sync up with the Chart of Accounts?

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Chart Brain Environment Nonprofit 53

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For instance, your major gift officer may use an app to look up more information about major prospects prior to initial meetings. but now, you can take all that information on the go with Bloomerang’s mobile fundraising app ! They offer a donor portal that makes it easy for donors to self-serve their information updates.

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Org Raise Tools Help 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? Do the feasibility study and do it right so you go into your campaign with the information you need.

Campaign 75

Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Printing and mailing thank-you letters with tax deductible information. Getting sponsor guest names and contact information and entering them in the database. Here are just some of this committee’s (many) jobs and our suggestions for committee structure: Collecting all guest names and contact information.

Roles 40

Roles Fundraising Sponsor Registration 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight. Getting All Departments To Become Data Informed – Make It Fun.

Measure 98

Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 12, 2014

In the United Sates, the nonprofit sector is not so different from the private sector in terms of professionalism and organizational structures. The individual giving and volunteering is lower in Turkey, but people tend to give and volunteer informally. ranks first while Turkey ranks 128th out of 135 countries.*

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Turkey Voice United States Volunteer 69

NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

leadership makes technology decisions based on standard levels according to industry/sector information and gathers input from technology staff/consultant before making final decision. The above chart represents the responses from survey participants. What Do the Results Tell Us About Tech Adoption at Nonprofits? “We

Adopt 81

Adopt Benchmark Tech Technology 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. The internet is structured around sites that have unique URL addresses. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits. Another list summarizes the number of links.

Analysis 71

Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Your Nonprofit’s Business Plan should include only relevant information, including these 9 elements: 1. Organizational Structure. Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view. Management and Organizational Charts.

Business 124

Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Both internal and external stakeholders need to be better informed about why it is okay for overhead costs to be higher when the organization is trying to grow, become sustainable, and ultimately achieve its mission more effectively. Recommendations for Implementation.

Build 49

Build Arizona America Iowa 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Science has an answer.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

They are diagrams of arrows and nodes that can communicate tremendous amounts of information visually much more easily than volumes of text. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general.

Map 86

Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. A navigation structure that requires 3+ clicks to get to any substantial content. Typically, I’ll use the lower tier of information (i.e.

Design 36

Design Process Web Test 36

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

This collection point may serve as a system of record, a source for analytics strategy, a repository of otherwise irreconcilable data structures, as a historical archive, or innumerable other business functions. Generally, the information is valuable in the aggregate but not at the individual detail level. .

Education 84

Education Roles Data Strategy 84

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Most of the information processing happens in a large datacenter outside our organization. The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. Benefit #1: Cost. It's closer to renting than buying software.

Adobe 36

Adobe Application Charity Sharepoint 36

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 7, 2007

This week the e-newsletter put out by consulting giant McKinsey ran a piece about how Merrill Lynch, the global financial services firm, has combined its Information Technology and Operations departments. It got me thinking about the structural placement of IT in non-profit organizations.

Experiment 40

Experiment Org Chart Application 40

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When I meet with a donor who plays in a jug band, I don't keep that information to myself or blast an email to the community programs team. The reality is that growth has meant more structure. There's an org chart. I resisted building better structures. I feared that growth would squash our creativity and community focus.

Collaboration 20

Collaboration Tools Build Organization 20

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. As the above chart illustrates, nearly half of the financial engagement between the U.S. As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

Research 79

Research Impact United States Philanthropy 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Breaking up into small tables worked – I saw table after table of people leaning in, standing up, gathered around flip charts. We could have refined the structure of the two days. I love seeing our staff make smart, well-informed choices. I didn’t see anyone checking their Blackberry, which was pretty amazing.

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Social Media Media Remix Social 94