Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Furthermore, while NXT Insight Designer has matured, it will not be a full replacement for CT clients because it is limited to NXT data only. . The other solution Blackbaud is offering to its clients is to export all data (via nightly backups or Database View Export) and report on the raw data outside of the database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds. My Nonprofit Needs a Data Nerd and How to Find Them! Here are the top 10 things you need to know in Excel to become a data nerd: Secret #10.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! Keep an eye on nonprofit blogs and bookmark pages that offer new perspectives. . Keep an ear out for podcasts by fellow nonprofit professionals. Utilize the skill sets of those helping your nonprofit.

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M+R

APRIL 27, 2022

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . We’ve put a year’s worth of data from 187 amazing nonprofit partners through the X-ray machine, and we’re ready to take you on a tour of digital ads, social media, email, web traffic, and more. . No other social media platform reached 10% participation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Despite the many benefits that strategic planning can bring, 49 percent of nonprofits lack a strategic plan. Nonprofit strategic planning FAQs What is strategic planning for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. At the end of the year, you’ll have twelve new data points about your audience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. So demand the same informative view from your data. Use maps to show geocoded data.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) . Scott supported more than just nonprofit institutions. Because these recipients are not organizations with IRS 990 filings (from which we derive revenue data), they are not included in the graph above. . This is almost 10 times the rate of nonprofits in general.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. Where are you finding/sharing data for your organization?

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

I followed the same methods 1 used to calculate National Equal Pay Day but focused specifically on the total reportable compensation of the 46k women CEOs and 42k men CEOs included in Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report 2. Or put another way: women leading nonprofits worked 102 days a year for free. workforce overall.

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . Thanks to contributions from 220 amazing nonprofit participants, this year’s Benchmarks Study covers detailed data including digital ads, social media, email, web traffic, mobile messaging, and more. . For now, here’s some quick news you can use: .

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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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Blue Fox

APRIL 11, 2022

They just gained a financial thought partner and another set of hands to oversee accounting data entry, management, and reporting. The conversation was now all financials, processes, transfer of responsibility, data architecture, and high-level recommendations. Isn't it clear? What Blue Fox really delivers is peace of mind!

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. Girls Who Code.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Looking to dig deeper into some data, but not quite sure if different pieces of information relate to each other? Part 3 in our Beyond the Pie Chart series digs into the wonderful world of scatter plots. These tips from Tableau's Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? spanhidden.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The nonprofit and education leaders I work with each have a different definition of “digital transformation.” When technology does more of the heavy lifting – more data analysis, more personalized communication with constituents, more automation – employees have more time to tackle the bigger challenges that require human brainpower.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Statement of Activities—commonly referred to as an SOA—is one of four essential financial statements for nonprofit organizations. This statement is crucial for demonstrating how effectively your nonprofit manages its resources. As the leader of a nonprofit, you must stay on top of updated standards or hire an accountant who does.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

Through the uncertainty, nonprofit staff, volunteers, and fundraisers show signs of being resilient, resourceful, and resolute. We’ve all seen the charts, where our actions directly affect outcomes. Data scientists and epidemiologists are working hard to use a vast amount of data to impact the pandemic. Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

You don’t have to be the world’s best artist to create a respectable infographic to help you make sense of your data, but it does take a little consideration and small amount of inspiration. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As nonprofits continue to navigate a challenging economic climate, GivingTuesday continues to play a unique role that is special to the nonprofit sector. Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. How do we turn data into Insights? Some Ways To Visual Your Data.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters? These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. Data and analytics also matter because they are often requested from funding sources such as foundations and grant providers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2017

These results are based on the largest analysis of charitable giving data and come from the 2016 Charitable Giving Report. percent, and small nonprofits experienced no growth. percent, and small nonprofits grew 8.1 In 2016, overall charitable giving increased 1 percent and online giving was up 7.9 Image 2 : Blackbaud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Web Crawl Data: Click here to see larger image. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. What charts or slides did the group focus on? Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* As I mentioned in my previous blog post, data is not magic.)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2019

If you’re like most peer-to-peer fundraising (P2P) staff, you’re drowning in data. You ascertain averages, browse benchmarks , and create charts. We’re very serious about our data in P2P! Ironically if we consider the use of MORE data – just different data than we’re used to – we can bring our focus back to our constituents.

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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. See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. Overhead costs pay for important investments like training and fundraising efforts, which are crucial in making your nonprofit sustainable.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Start with benchmark data. Track your own data. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Above that average?

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