Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. This section goes beyond just the mechanics of how to create charts and graphs and includes the need for reflection and making changes based on what you’ve learned. Meaning Making. Communicating Results.

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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. Additional links are here.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Cigna Foundation’s charitable giving philosophy is part of their mission to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those they serve. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Areas served: US. Cigna Foundation. Areas served: Connecticut. Endowment For Health.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Cigna Foundation’s charitable giving philosophy is part of their mission to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those they serve. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Areas served: US. Cigna Foundation. Areas served: Connecticut. Endowment For Health.

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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. This could involve: Running digital ads on a consistent daily/weekly basis to stay top-of-mind.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Learn about the past donations donors have made to like-minded nonprofit organizations. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis. Political giving. Real estate ownership. Then, track your rankings for those keywords in Moz.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

Marketing research done on a regular basis will allow you to make better decisions, chart changes over time, plan initiatives, and assess your success. The best time to survey your constituents about their satisfaction is right after they have enjoyed your product or service, while the experience is still fresh in their minds.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ll cover a few main points to keep in mind plus the general steps your team will need to follow: What is a technology plan? 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. 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. Return on Investment.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Keep in mind that your card labels don’t necessarily need to reflect your website’s navigation labels.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

Think of the words "overhead" and "nonprofits" and what comes to mind? Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad. Perhaps the image of inefficient organizations with layers of "fat," overpaid administrators, and wasteful spending?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Throughout the process of building a diverse board, which will have the inevitable ups and downs of any new initiative, there are two words to keep in mind and stay on track. After all, nonprofits are about people, not profits (hence, the term “nonprofits”).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

Keeping in mind that this study focuses on those who make financial decisions for an organization , e.g. the CEO and the CFO, the following chart shares some interesting data. Figure 17: Percentage of Organizations Reporting Board Involvement in Financial Management, by Financial Functions (%) 9.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Each Monday morning we counted up the votes cast during the previous week and on Wednesday, the museum released a new Top 40 chart. A fairly large label with this week’s chart position was placed next to each artwork. The following week it shot up the chart from number 40 to number 14!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Based on this nine-month experience, we produced the Collaboration Report , a comprehensive analysis of our learnings and best practices. We developed a one-page chart that can be filled out quickly, but it covers key components of deeper engagement: Who will be the lead from each organization? What is the shared activity they will do?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. Was it purely by chance or did they kind of actively, you know, plant that seed in the potential donors’ minds? Aaron: You know, I’ve seen org charts. Steven: That’s cool.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As development research, prospect management and development analytics professionals, we provide the information and analysis that ensure our organizations focus on our most essential prospective donors. From effective streamlining to data analysis and knowledge management, grants managers are doing the work that defines grantmaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. How many by when?

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on twitter including who is the top people tweeting specific trends (aka trendsetters) and a bar chart listing the hours a topic trended. I have seen many such websites that provide competitive analysis for free. I hope you dont mind that I posted a link to it on my blog (see link below).

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

You can see the metrics in action in the chart below. Its interesting that biggest success listed -- Ron Pauls money bombs -- was the most grassroots, with obvious goals and reasons for participation, and no need for a subtle ROI analysis. Of course one of the biggest returns is brand visibility. All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings. I did policy reports, and analysis and research. I think it's the one that organizations get most instinctively. The first part of care is to put a face on your organization.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2016

Whether you’re unveiling the first round of logos to your clients, walking through a data analysis with your grant funder, or even aggrandizing your work experience on that crucial face-to-face job interview, coming across as confident, prepared, and engaging is just as important as the words coming out of your mouth. So how do you do that?

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