Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

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The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. Stats : Basic descriptive statistics (average, median, mode, distribution). This section takes you through the basics of analyzing and finding patterns in survey data. Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g.,

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

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One pitch describes dry statistics about food shortages in Africa and the other describes the plight of one child suffering from starvation. The point is not to ditch the statistics, but to give your potential donors enough information so they can have empathy with your cause or the story you are telling.

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Can A Public Nonprofit Dashboard Be Your Organization's Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is it risky to provide statistics about finances and results on a public Web site? The institution has continued to share its data and engage in conversations with the public on its blog about how to use the statistics to improve its programs. . Two years later, we might have some answers.

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Inside Goodwill’s #LaborofLove Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate was at 4.9 Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 5.6 The #LaborOfLove Campaign urges people across the nation to pledge to spread awareness about Goodwill and the importance of job placement and training programs. According to the U.S. percent in July. According to the U.S.

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Study Released: Untapped Opportunity to Engage High Dollar Nonprofit Donors via Social

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This version has much more content and statistics than the version we ran on Mashable last Spring! This was among the key findings of the new research study, “Community Philanthropy 2.0,” conducted by Geoff Livingston, (as part of his fellowship for the Society for New Communications Research ), Qui Diaz and myself.

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#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using statistics only from highest-level influencers, #GivingTuesday had a reach to over 425 million individuals on Twitter, and over 300 million on Facebook. That’s an average of 11,208 tweets per hour, 186 times per minute. GivingTuesday trended for over 10 hours straight in the United States (9:30 am – 7:30 pm).

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