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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

expectations); Compare actual activity to expectations (comparison of budget/prior year to actual); Present a picture of the financial health of the organization. Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. If not on course, the reports lend guidance to changing plans as necessary.

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

Analyze the numbers for them and summarize trends with a brief narrative or visual, dashboard-style presentation. Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. Your audience is busy and will appreciate reports that save them time.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . It is called the Four P’s: Planning, People, Priorities, and Being Present. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? BEING PRESENT. Your teams needs to accept that you have to make choices.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. In your mind, establish how you want your audience to feel during your presentation: Enthusiastic? Go deeper — use empathy. All of the above?

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. In your mind, establish how you want your audience to feel during your presentation: Enthusiastic? Go deeper — use empathy. All of the above?

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." What is your post to comment ratio? Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. What do they click on?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! These program notes will help you implement some of the ideas presented in the screencast.