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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

Tech Soup

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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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. This will give you the full picture of how your organization handles data. That’s okay!

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

Name a point of contact who sees the big picture. It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. This enables the vendor to account for everything and map your history to a new and optimized chart of accounts.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

sgEngage

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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