NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. You should also remind donors to keep the bigger picture in mind. If you combine personal testimonials with graphics and charts, you’ll create an emotional bond with your audience while also appealing to their logical side.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit. The purpose of this chart is to help you see how many gifts at each level you will need to hit your goal. Don’t despair.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers. Be ready to paint the picture of where you’re going and then motivate folks to join you for the journey. Explain what needs to be done and how it fits into the big picture. Crunching numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

” More and more nonprofits are adding data visualization to compelling story telling to create amazing infographics as part their marketing tool kits. You might also want to brush up on what types of charts and graphs are best for making presenting your insights gleaned from the data.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI).

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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. “Map out the story you need to tell. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.”

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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. The good news is that infographics allow nonprofits to translate their own collections of data into visual stories that motivate their community.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story We touched on this principle above.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. It can display data with maps, lists, charts, timelines, and other visual reports. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor. Since then, there have been more than 6.5

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

Just as your organization’s story — its mission, community, history, constituents, partners, everything that makes it unique — should guide your organization’s engagement strategies , your underlying tech foundations should be guided by a similar roadmap, as well. What’s the best way to get started? Develop an overarching technology strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Assuming our fictional organization has done this, let’s say that they chose to create a blog that the middle and high school students who volunteer in the after school program author, with stories form their work, things they are thinking about, events, friendships, and so on. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

One agenda item is mentioned, and that is Betty’s cue to break into lengthy stories and opinions, basically hijacking the conversation. He’s the one that somehow manages to turn a conversation about the next fundraiser into a story about his nephew’s baseball game. Solution: Redirect. Repeat after me: “Great, Betty. You know David.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Earlier this year Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) asked for a few minutes of your time to help us tell the collective story of the nonprofit sector. What are the big picture conversations about? The chart below highlights that upward trend. As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

They’ll stay involved longer and make a deeper commitment when they understand how their work impacts the big picture. When making decisions on buying supplies for their program or talking about the organization at a donor visit, they’ll think about the big picture because they actually understand it. Increased Contributions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2011

It also means that when you're measuring your website's impact on fundraising, your online donation statistics tell less than half of the story. Things like watchdog logos, an expenditures pie chart, and third-party endorsements should be among the most visible elements on the page. Photo: Roadside Pictures , CC license.

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

Here are five ways you can make sure you are communicating your organization’s financial information in a single, efficient story to help your board make effective data-driven decisions. And should an opportunity or issue arise where the fund might be used, the board knows the full picture.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. Recommendations for Implementation. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m. After a short review process that mainly consisted of whether she liked the pictures the nonprofit put on their website , she settled on donating to Texas-based nonprofit Animal Rescue Connections.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Moral of the story? They explained how nonprofit organizations these days need to make sure they are utilizing scarce resources to truly reach their goals, and that they’re generally good at reporting activities and stories of success. An individual story is far more meaningful when it can be connected to a broader impact.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

charity can expand its GuideStar profile to tell its story to donors and grantmakers. GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work. GuideStar recently launched completely redesigned nonprofit profiles. Now, for free, any U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

I’m thankful for the MCON wakeup call that served as a re-set, and for people like DeRay Mckesson , Miki Agrawal , Ayesha Barenblat , Chris Temple , Vivien Labaton , Angela Rye , and Meagan Bond , whose stories and journeys reminded me that one person really can make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results. Each table had some markers and flip chart paper (“table cloths”) so participants could take notes. They enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others. Others see them as creative, but unfocused.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This was the main aim of this year’s summer exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Top 40: Countdown of Worcester’s Favourite Pictures. Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

This blog post delves into practical strategies for transforming your nonprofit’s annual report into a compelling narrative that highlights your achievements, tells stories of transformation, and motivates your community to continue their support. Highlighting key achievements Remember, there are two reasons why donors give!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . They made sure that we got to hear stories from some of these folks, but they put a face on what our impact would be if we gave. I love the copy as well as the picture. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I want to learn from their failures as well as their success stories. . - Brenda Renou I am looking forward to learning from the collective experiences of leaders in the nonprofit sector. In addition, I am eager to network with nonprofit professionals throughout the country and especially the Midwest. Steve Blakeslee.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

And you probably struggle to turn that data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story. That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Picture a spreadsheet with a long list of individual donations.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Using a theme helps you craft a story across your annual report and ensures members and stakeholders connect with your report. In addition to including the statistics, highlight some of your new members, featuring a Q&A that tells their membership stories. For example, did membership increase this year?

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

I will add to this post several pictures so all of you can muster a true sense of what she was to members of the Love clan. We began harvesting such best practices based upon the amazing Donor Retention work of Adrian Sargeant (you will see Adrian and his wonderful family in a few of the pictures below).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As seen by the chart on the right, the participants who are also donors have a lower total donor value (across the organization) no matter the number of gifts. Do they (participants and donors) have more longevity? Many of you may be thinking "gosh…that is not what I expected to see" and I would say, agreed!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They’re able to tell a great story and they’re able to communicate a solution to an obvious need. That’s an awesome story. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. This is really interesting to listen to and hear the stories. And so the nonprofit knows how much they need to raise.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mr. Kristof told the story of a young man growing up in Alabama in the 1950’s who, embarrassed to read in public for fear of his image, had to steal books from the library and read in secret. But that wasn’t the story – as amazing as it was. Focus on them and your shared values and beliefs. Your organization stands for something.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Where are they: which platforms or tools do they use and when do they use them?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. How do we turn all those spreadsheets into the pictures and maps that clearly tell our story in an instant? So far, the Recovery.org site only features the standard " Share Your Story " feature.

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