Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Don’t underestimate the power of high school statistics. If you took a high school or college course in statistics, you’re on the right track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Jay and his team grew the company to more than 10,000 nonprofit clients, charting a decade of record growth. Use blog posts or fundraising landing pages to highlight the positive impact that donations have on your ability to achieve your mission. He is a graduate of Butler University with a B.S. in Business Administration.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

Indeed, only seven percent of small non-profits use dedicated volunteer management software to coordinate data (nine percent use no software at all) resulting in a disturbing statistic: some 62 percent of said non-profits lose volunteers due to poor data keeping. What sorts of problems does poor volunteer management cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 8, 2010

A while back, we looked how your non-profit can use visualization tools to help tell the human story behind your data and statistics, along with some free tools and inspiring examples to make your own infographic. Yes, you’ve seen some of those visualization tools reviewed here already.( read more ).

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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. On top of statistical figures, you should also be telling specific, impactful stories that pull on readers’ heartstrings in newsletters, thank-you notes, blog posts and other written content. Make it visual.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Use statistics and charts, but more importantly, tell the stories of those you have helped, use testimonials, and then back those up with the numbers. #6: . #4: Explanation of Your Programs – Tell the reader what programs you are currently running. Give a short explanation of each. #5:

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The first tool is the donor retention bar chart widget you can add to your dashboard. For a more detailed look at your statistics, you can add the donor retention statistics widget , which will show you the same categories of donors during a calendar or fiscal year, plus the total revenue from each.

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Kindful

APRIL 15, 2021

It is a software that integrates with many apps to track every transaction, customer communication, and workflow project, analyzing each process along the way and producing a slew of graphs and charts along the way. The goal of Salesforce is to automate as much of your business as possible with the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2014

For access to study statistics, charts, raw data, and the video report, check out the "2014 Fundraising Technology Trend Study" here. There is an emulatable technology profile of a successful fundraiser. 83% of the fundraisers who achieved it describe their fundraising as either “effective” or “very effective.”

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 3, 2019

The most important statistic you should examine is your engagement rate. On Twitter, you can find this chart on the right side of your profile (not your analytics page) when in desktop view. On Facebook, click the “Posts” tab in “Insights” and drag your mouse across the chart to view when the most users are online. Engagement.

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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). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2015

One telling statistic is that she found no correlation between budget size and data informed practices. She conducted an in-depth study of nonprofits and how they use (or don’t use) data for decision-making as part of her recently published book, Impact and Excellence.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

More tips to enhance the impact of your inclusive year-end appeal: Delivery —Keep statistics to a minimum. Get specific and include donor gift amounts, just skip the bar graphs and pie charts (“Your gift of $150 allows us to serve 68 meals to homeless families this winter.”).

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. Research & Trends Blackbaud Index fundraising Online Fundraising'

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2022

It is also usually based on expert opinion since more a thorough risk assessment requires data that takes time to gather if it can be gathered at all, and expensive statistical expertise to properly analyze and interpret the results. Keeping the gantt chart updated. Articulating impacts of delays when they are considered.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2014

Although this was a pretty wide-ranging discussion, they all had in common one thing: a high comfort level with uncertainty (not in the strictly statistical sense, however). That was the most inspiring and comforting thing of all. But it seems that the ‘wrestling’ is actually a critical step in the process.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Check out the comparison chart below. Check out some more statistics from the Cone study: 41% of Americans say they have bought a product because it was associated with a cause or issue in the last year – doubling since they first began measuring this in 1993 (20%). Moms and Consumer Marketing Statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 23, 2022

According to Double the Donation’s fundraising statistics , recurring donors give 42% more each year than one-time donors. Jay and his team grew the company to more than 10,000 nonprofit clients, charting a decade of record growth. This is because the lifetime value of a retained donor is generally higher than a one-time donor.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the charts below, we’ve combined Qgiv’s processing fee and merchant processing fee, so you have a clear picture of the total fee you’re charged per transaction. Qgiv’s Data package includes everything in the Start package plus advanced statistics and integrations with CRMs, email and accounting tools, and Zapier.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Take a look at the chart below. Why are these statistics so dismal? For the organizations that are raising money on Facebook in particular – here’s a breakdown of how money is being raised: 33% raised money via Individual Giving. 20% raised money via Event Fundraising. 17% raised money via Causes.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Take a look at the chart below. Another statistic to consider from this study, was how poorly video performed in generating "Likes" despite YouTube being the second most trafficked website in the U.S. You know the old saying; a picture is worth a thousand words?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

We’ve all seen the charts, where our actions directly affect outcomes. For this, we look to personas derived from complex statistical models. We ask questions that were unthinkable just a short time ago. Are we flattening the curve? If we increase our social distance and stay home, how will it impact hospitalizations?

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. There are plenty of statistics that demonstrate that what is good for society is also good for business.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

Here’s a brief overview of some of these updates: Compare your fundraising performance: You can now easily compare and visualize your fundraising by entering in your fundraising revenue to the interactive chart. Please visit The Blackbaud Index for more information and interactive charts.

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Use statistics and trends to illustrate elements of your campaign like: Your organization’s need for increased capacity. Breaking your prospecting goals down into a gift range chart is an effective way to keep your efforts focused from the very beginning of the quiet phase. Use data to strengthen your message. donor research tools.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. 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. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm still looking for the best places to find numbers on Social Networking sites (like number of users and growth -- I'd love a chart or graph of comparisons to MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. I'd also like to see an age spread that is more recent than the Businessweek chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

One of the more chilling innovations in marketing over the past few years is called “predictive analytics” It’s this blend of statistical analysis, data mining and psychology which enabled Target to conclude that a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. 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. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications. Make it portable.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. Staff retention is critical : The number of fundraising jobs is expected to grow by more than 11 percent over the next decade, the Bureau of Labor Statistics informs us. Do you have a case for support tailored to younger donors?

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