sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters.

Activities 80

Activities Active Activism Comparison 80

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blackbaud University’s Henry Wiencek and Chrissy Haskell will do a quick overview of the different chart types, including how you can use them, and they will even build a few from scratch. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

Blackbaud 93

Blackbaud Denver Demographics Case Study 93

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

Foundation 81

Foundation Build Fund Review 81

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. The sole purpose of a Donor Management system is to track donors, track your communication with donors, and track donation information.

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System Help Nonprofit Track 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. Understand individual patient health within the context of population health trends. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

Integration 79

Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 79

Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

South Dakota 59

South Dakota Program Alaska Build 59

sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the long-term intent is to simply the process and increase college accessibility, the short-term impact of the delays has meant a great deal of frustration for students and their families and major restraints on colleges that have historically relied on the resulting Student Aid Reports (SAR) to determine non-federal financial aid packages.

Student 86

Student Application Education Grant 86

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000.

Software 88

Software Free Tools Adobe 88

Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

All this information is “chart-able.” Provide a Portal for Self-Reporting Hours Reporting hours can be a particularly challenging task for nonprofits to manage. Multiple projects with different committees can make it hard to keep track of which volunteer is doing what and when they’re doing it.

Volunteer 52

Volunteer Practice Management Nonprofit 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Look at each supporter’s giving history and identify trends. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 100

Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Analyze your online giving trends and engagement metrics. Track data for your marketing campaigns during these special events to determine which messages are most effective for driving donations. Using this tool, you can track the following donor demographics: Age: Do your donors tend to be younger, older, or somewhere in between?

Donation 52

Donation Donor Giving Demographics 52

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

sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

Tracking approximately $10 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. Overall Fundraising Trends. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue decreased by 1.1% This is the first negative trend in 6 months.

Blackbaud 68

Blackbaud Trend Statistics Environment 68

Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Track successes and failures to inform future strategy. “Be Implement procedures to asess metrics.

Social Media 52

Social Media Trend Storyboard Montana 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Did you use any “real time” tracking of your tweets and make any adjustments along the way? The Twitter chart looks at the impact of a “tweetathon” we decided to hold on June 13; one week before World Refugee Day (June 20).

Analytics 99

Analytics Interview Story Phase 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

Analytics 97

Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” Think about it: if all you do at your Board meeting is go over reports from the previous month, you’re looking back.

Fun 98

Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Tracking these metrics will help you keep a pulse on the current engagement of your donors so you know which efforts are working and which ones need to be increased or modified. By tracking attrition rate by level, you can see which levels and which efforts have been most successful. Count of Constituents Who Had a Gift Last Year].

Metrics 42

Metrics Donor Fundraising Retention 42

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

But before we get too far into the report details, let’s start with a simple definition. Let’s take a look at a few of the key findings from the second nonprofit content marketing benchmark report – produced by Content Marketing Institute and Blackbaud – Nonprofit Content Marketing 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America.

Content 45

Content Storytelling Marketing Chart 45

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere. Compliant reporting.

Org 82

Org Raise Tools Help 82

Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tracking approximately $11 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. The more you add, the more complete of a trend line you’ll get! This will allow users to look at Index trends over a more extensive period of.

Blackbaud 33

Blackbaud Trend Chart United States 33

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A growing trend among most of us these days is paying for things more with credit and debit cards and less with cash and checks. This trend means even the smallest churches may find it useful to explore low-cost ways to accept electronic donations for offerings, tithes, and other gifts. Accounting Software for Churches.

Tech 36

Tech PowerPoint Software Database 36

Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

Report 114

Report Digital Fundraising Nonprofit 114

Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Following up on any loose ends, reporting on your success, and thanking each and every donor and volunteer. Use statistics and trends to illustrate elements of your campaign like: Your organization’s need for increased capacity. The Public Phase. Post-Campaign Activities. Use data to strengthen your message. donor research tools.

Audience 83

Audience Campaign Phase Virtual 83

sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Are your programs on track? Your dashboard is made up of different visualization options, including charts, links lists, tables, and notes that put the information you need front and center when you log in. This includes dashboards that give you data to easily track trends and understand how your community is changing.

Tips 91

Tips Chart Grant Blackbaud 91

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). Research Questions. Deliverables.

Analytics 37

Analytics Design Research Process 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Online giving is tracking to the trends of online shopping and banking, and it is the avenue of choice for donors during disasters. is evident at Network for Good when numbers of donations are charted by organization. -Men and women give online in equal numbers. Most people give online during the week, during business hours ???

North Dakota 50

North Dakota Network Research Mississippi 50

Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

Digital 63

Digital Report Fundraising Nonprofit 63

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Get your data out of your reports.

Policy 36

Policy Data Content Share 36

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. They no longer have to wait until month-end reports are delivered to see where they stand.

Business 44

Business North America Metrics Analysis 44

Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% That might seem low, but it’s actually on track with other online trends. It’s in our org charts. Can you read a chart? of total fundraising revenue. of total sales.

Online 36

Online Giving Offline United States 36

fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Two prime examples of no-code or configuration based Salesforce data tools are List Views and Report Builder. When you’re working with Salesforce, though, really understanding the differences between List Views and Reports is crucial. Reports Salesforce Reports offer more advanced functionality and analysis tools than list views.

Report 40

Report Summary Analysis Gartner 40

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" “Of course, things got a lot worse in the fourth quarter, so these trends might not hold up.”

Convio 31

Convio Benchmark Studies Social Media 31

Nucleus

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As an association professional, you are probably already aware of at least some of the benefits that improved analytics would deliver to you and your teams – better and faster insights into trends, member preferences, important changes – all of which help you make decisions more rapidly and with confidence.

Analytics 130

Analytics Chapter Associations Registration 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Track Your Time.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Ted Hart’s suggestion was along the lines of ‘these are great, they are here to stay so figure out how to make them work for you’ and I think that was a common angle taken by the experts when discussing these future trends. If you don’t measure it, it doesn’t happen.

Austin 20

Austin Alabama Memphis Blackbaud 20