sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

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. Select details for more grant detail.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. Additionally, this digital shift to increased data interoperability means less chart chasing and improved quality care. Impactful multi-channel marketing.

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Integration Data Nonprofit Platform 76

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

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. How Do Nonprofits Engage Donors?

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Lesson North America New York Kentucky 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How does it measure its impact? 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. Is the work happening efficiently? It’s far from a distraction. Greg Perlstein.

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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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Activities Active Activism Comparison 77

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 started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

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. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. S elf-care prioritization. Do all you can to recover and recharge. L isten and ask questions.

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Results Nonprofit PowerPoint Map 109

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. 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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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. It includes a tool that helps measure your networking skills and also lots of methods to help you identify, expand, and use your network to improve your knowledge and work.

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Network Data Chart Case Study 134

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.

Analysis 71

Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

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. Let your donors know that these expenses improve your organization’s performance as a whole, ultimately increasing its impact. Make it visual.

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Money Donor Chart Ratio 64

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’ve found that highly tailored content targeted at your most valuable donors can have a big impact. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms.

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. It’s September – you can’t get a data management plan together in time to fully impact the upcoming appeal, but if you don’t have one, you need it. Are you using program outcomes data to tell better stories?

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Data Time Fundraising Retention 184

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. Released under the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact, the report analyzes trends from more than $23 billion in fundraising revenue from 2016. percent on a year-over-year basis. Image 2 : Blackbaud.

Donation 59

Donation Online Blackbaud Chart 59

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. 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.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

However, asking more than once and in more than one place impacts organizations abilities to reach their goals or even exceed them in some occasions. Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? Is it going to have adverse effects on your results? Those are all legitimate concerns.

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Campaign Fundraising Channel Mail 90

Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

If we increase our social distance and stay home, how will it impact hospitalizations? 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. Are we flattening the curve?

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Data Analysis Virtual Education 42

Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The David and Lura Lovell Foundation is a family foundation established in 1994 that funds high-impact initiatives nationwide in four focus areas: mental health, integrative health and wellness, youth access to the arts, and gender parity. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

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Grant Fund Connecticut Colorado 111

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The David and Lura Lovell Foundation is a family foundation established in 1994 that funds high-impact initiatives nationwide in four focus areas: mental health, integrative health and wellness, youth access to the arts, and gender parity. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

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Grant Fund Connecticut Colorado 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Here’s the description: Do you know what kind of an impact social media is having on your brand, mission, or bottom line? 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.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

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? . I recommend giving yourself 18 months to see if it’s having a real impact—during which period you measure, measure, measure. How many donors do you have? . Above that average?

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

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. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. If you design and deliver training for professional development, what technologies are impacting your practice? Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Prior to her work with March of Dimes, she focused internationally on the impacts of social and environmental factors on the health of women and their families . Vice President, Social Impact and Sustainability.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 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. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. “Look across rows versus columns, for example.”

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. By applying this approach to program development or strategy, your nonprofit can get more impactful results. Then each group rotates to the next station and adds their thoughts.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. Measuring Too Much. Poor Presentation.

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Measure Government Track Australia 36

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When events are well-run, they tend to lead to more association members, directly impacting growth. If your donation button is not a prominent part of your homepage, you can see how this design choice impacts the attention paid to it on your heatmap. Backlink analysis. Then, track your rankings for those keywords in Moz.

Org 80

Org Raise Tools Help 80

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? At the Monday all-staff meeting the following week, they share these lessons and discuss how it should impact the organization’s work moving forward. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. Analytics reports don’t replace meetings.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Once you’ve gathered data from important stakeholders, completing a SWOT Analysis can help you map the internal and external factors that are assisting or hindering you. Batchgeo is a free mapping tool that helps you visualize the data that lives in your spreadsheets. Integrate feedback and make a plan to move forward.

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Fund Learning Help Map 50

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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Fund Award Government Taxonomy 62

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 ). If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value.

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Google Change Social Adopt 116