Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn from my mistakes and create better charts for your audience – to show fundraising results, organization’s impact or benchmarking. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Are we guilty of creating such charts ourselves? Here’s a chart from my thesis I created about 15 years ago.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s not just the end-of-grant reporting that can cause problems. When evaluating an accounting system for your nonprofit, look for a segmented chart of accounts and record-based subfund tracking capabilities. You get more granular tracking for easier reporting without creating an unmanageably long chart of accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming generates creative solutions to a problem in the hope of finding the best solution. The ideas can be captured on a flip chart or participants can write them down on sticky notes and post them on a wall.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react?

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 80

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data silos are a common problem across all industries and can cause serious pain points, especially as data volume increases. Restricted research: Inconsistent data restricts healthcare teams’ ability to perform meaningful research and problem-solve. Save staff time and costs by avoiding manual entry.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

When you are working on a tough issue or an innovative solution, sometimes it helps to learn from others who have tackled that problem or are working on a similar idea. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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Blackbaud Denver Demographics Case Study 89

Nucleus

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A fantastic side effect was that staff was able to see where we had problems with our data, typically data that was missing or incomplete. Registrations skyrocketed to the highest ever in that little amount of time, and that was just fantastic. Sometimes they can be confusing. That’s just fantastic.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. The best time to implement and start using a good nonprofit accounting system is from the beginning. If you don’t yet have good accounting systems in place, NOW is the time to correct that. Again, big mess. I promise you will.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

Add in six-month filing extensions and IRS processing time, and it can be two years before we receive all the returns for a specific year. And two years is already a long time to wait for this information. Although real-time grants data is in high demand, “old” IRS 990 data still matters, for two related reasons.

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Most of the time when I reveal to someone that I am partially color blind, it’s met with surprise. I can most easily explain it like this: if you show me a bold ketchup red, and a strong Kermit green, I can tell you what colors those are, no problem. I’ve worked for over 15 years in marketing as a project manager.

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Accessibility Web Green Chart 98

Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

What’s the problem with nonprofit board engagement? With board members, this creates a legal problem as well. Now look at the same data in a pie chart. . Could it help focus time on the biggest sources of revenue (grants) and away from the smallest (car wash)? Does this make sense to you? Isn’t this more engaging?

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Report Nonprofit eBook Chart 94

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 93

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react?

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Foundation Build Fund Review 78

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

I’ve done this exercise hundreds of time and the results across nonprofits are similar. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.” Workload and deadlines are big stress triggers.

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Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). Many projects and organizations that address big hairy problems such as poverty, healthcare access, and others often include a media component. Select details for more grant detail.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Only problem…you’re not totally sure how to plan a capital campaign. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. First, build yourself a fundraising budget: what do you plan to spend on marketing materials, fundraising events, staff time, and so on? Now it’s time to get more specific.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

It would appear, according to Finch’s research, that one major problem small non-profits encounter as they evolve is staying on top of burgeoning volunteer bases: from contact information to schedules, too often disorganization ensues when multiple spreadsheets and email applications are not merged into one easily accessible data set.

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Software Volunteer Management NPO 100

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If you are like most nonprofit leaders, the thought of a Board meeting creates feelings of dread, the blahs, the “let’s get it over withs”, the “I don’t have time for this” mindset, or the “I don’t know why we even bothers”. ” “Nobody shows up on time. It helps you spend more time looking forward, rather than looking back.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means that patients enjoy timely and accurate treatment plans while healthcare staff can adequately allocate resources. As a result, care facilities can raise support more efficiently and devote more time to improving their quality of care.

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Trend Technology Analytics Integration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

If a dashboard fails to tell you what need in glance, then you’ve wasted all that data collection time. What if you married with the power of a dashboard with visual design? Stare at your charts and graphs and numbers. Step C: Select the right chart. (5) 4) Choose the Right Measure. 5) Choose the Right Display.

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Design Chart Measure Metrics 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.” 2: Track Your Moods.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you company is experiencing a constant or newly presented problem, a change will need to be made. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented. Consider the problem or opportunity at hand. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart.

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Change Management Change Management Phase 105

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams. The upside is that there is space for new leaders to emerge.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react?

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Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Loaded with analysis tools, it also contains a video feature that lets you see exactly what problems exist that are making your site sluggish and quick tips for correcting any issues. Once you’ve utilized one of these tools to test your site it’s time to explore options for increasing speed and performance. WebPagetest.

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Test WordPress Plugin Tools 100

Byte Technology

JUNE 21, 2016

You can literally have as many pre-loaded replies as you want in an easy-to-find format and the process will cut down the amount of time you spend returning messages considerably. Problem is, before long you’re buried under a pile of Post-It notes. So begin by creating a chart that lists all your tasks by level of urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

They capture their discussion by taking notes on the “tablecloths,” (in this case, it is flip chart paper). In Santa Barbara, a common theme was that their nonprofits operated in “Crisis Mode” all the time and it has created a culture of stress. One of the topics includes stress triggers in the workplace.

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Culture Nonprofit Chart Flickr 98

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Now more than ever, you can’t afford to treat training and the time required away from your office as a perk for a job well done with no real changes after the training is complete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. And while the trackers can’t determine if you really are sleeping, it records the total time asleep, number of times restless or awake and total time restless based on your body movement. Start with getting enough sleep.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. It’s a must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, and a roadmap charting the path to startups success. Most of this is good advice – most of the time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

So it saves users time because they won't need IT to help with a database every time and won't spend hours fine-tuning a spreadsheet. Save Time Right from the Start. Eastern time. data visualization data SAP tssap data viz tsresearchanalytics business intelligence charts Visual Intelligence graphs'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

On the one hand, I was impressed by the quality of conversation and sessions during the time I was there. One effort to address this problem, in which I wish more funders would participate, is the Charting Impact initiative. For many, answering the questions Charting Impact asks would be easy. The questions are: 1.

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Seattle Chart Conference National 97

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . Do this overall and also for first-time and ongoing donors. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. .

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

Don’t waste time covering up your weaknesses, embrace them. Bonus takeaway : The next time you’re with a donor ask them, what’s your favorite mistake (or “what mistake taught you the most?”). S – Serotonin: mood, feeling pride that they can solve this problem. Winning Fundraising Campaigns that Hit the Fundraising Jackpot.

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Guide Gift Donor Retention 117

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Next, simply choose what the chart should look like, how it should be labeled, and save. The VP doesn’t have time to log in and run that report, they just want to see it for the meeting. Now, you’ve got the perfect solution for any analytical problem you’re trying to solve (Check out this webinar that shows this solution in action).

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Blackbaud Report Analytics Database 88

CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

There is so much that needs to be done to get staff, board members, volunteers, and donors to put their time, treasure, and talent towards supporting the organization. Once you have decided on your event format, it’s time to start planning! For many nonprofits, the beginning of the planning process can be an overwhelming time.

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