Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) . For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund. i] Comprehensive data about grantees was not available for every analysis.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It is available inside your CRM as shown in the image above of Tableau CRM or as a standalone application that allows you to bring data from multiple data sources as shown in the example below. . As an advanced analytics and business intelligence tool, Tableau can help you identify patterns in your data and develop your strategy.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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? Examples: Male versus female likelihood of having lung cancer at different ages. Use Scatter Plots to Discover Relationships.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. For example, if what you’re looking for is already in a bar graph, the Ask data option will search for it and open it for you right now. Trend Lines & Predictive Analysis.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism , John Bogle estimated a nationwide ratio to be approximately 280:1 in 2004 (up from 42:1 in 1980). Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No. the median compensation among all staff at any given organization).

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

This is largely consistent with last year’s analysis , when the nonprofit CEO equal pay day fell on June 8, 2021. Given that there is a strong correlation between organizational expense size and CEO compensation package (see chart below), it might not be surprising that men CEOs enjoy higher pay. workforce overall.

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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. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In “ The Power of Infographics ” Mark Smickilas offers some good recipes for creating your own infographics. You need to start with data, audience, and time allocation. For inspiration, check out this Pinboard of nonprofit infographics which will lead you to many more examples. Now, comes the perspiration part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. 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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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For example, if you say you’re trying to raise $100,000 to build schools in Africa, also mention that it will cost each student $100 per year to attend. If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. Break it down. Make it visual. Explain the benefits of overhead.

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Money Donor Chart Ratio 64

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . For example, your fall appeal may have done a lot better than your spring appeal—but why? Above that average?

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 125

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Some examples of fundraising and marketing assets you may use in your campaign include: direct emailing , radio ads, bus ads, mail drop, etc. Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? A free and very easy-to-use tool, that I recommend and use, is an Excel Spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook includes a few examples and methods for doing this. The Playbook gives you an examples. The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Start off in SAP Visual Intelligence by pulling data from a broad range of sources: Excel spreadsheets ("personal data sources") as well as many types of databases (for example, Access, Oracle, SAP HANA, BusinessObjects). Users can input data in seconds with a couple of points and clicks. The exact opposite is true. Images: SAP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

For example, if your home page and contribute pages are the highest visited pages consistently, and then one month there is another page that makes it to the top above those, you know something interesting is going on. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard. Community Mapping.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

We’ve all seen the charts, where our actions directly affect outcomes. Recently, Blackbaud data scientists performed a cluster analysis of 1.4 Examples of Leveraging Peer-to-Peer Advanced Insights. We ask questions that were unthinkable just a short time ago. Are we flattening the curve? billion individual fundraising actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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. Here are a few more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. It is a generic list of results and examples of Key Performance Indicators. The example above comes from Momsrising , a “flyer” when it comes to measurement practice.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. SAP’s Crystal Report and Business Objects programs are examples of analytics tools organizations might consider using. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

.” I had opportunity to write up a case study about how VolunteerMatch’s calculates social return on investment as a prelude for a facilitated session at Media Impact Funders , so it was a delight to hear more examples from Robert about VolunteerMatch’s measurement culture.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, a donor might use a mobile bidding app at your annual gala auction to bid on your nonprofit’s best prizes. For example, Bloomerang’s fundraising app offers generosity scores powered by DonorSearch that provide insight into your existing donors’ capacity and affinity to give more to your nonprofit. Backlink analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The report offers examples of learning anlaytics in higher education as well as a curated list of articles to get up to speed. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Based on years of biannual report analysis, I find that annual budget, mission focus, and service area, in that order, have the most impact on an organization's grantseeking experience. The charts in these reports show the frequency of funding by source, such as private foundations, corporate giving programs, and local governments.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

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. In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you implement a new survey system to use on your website and emails but then neglect to develop an easy, scalable way to actually export the survey results to your database for analysis, what’s the point? Overhauling your marketing toolkit and strategies to reach Millennial and Gen Z donors would be a good example.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Here are two examples of visualizations created by GitHub users: Florian Krautli, a Swiss designer living in London, graphed the volume of artworks by individual artists in the Tate''s collection over time. Jim Davenport, an astronomer living in Seattle, charted the height and width of all of the works in the Tate''s collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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