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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

Continuous learning opportunities keep your knowledge base fresh and relevant. Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities. Invest in professional development for yourself and your accounting team.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Support local nonprofits and knowledge in the U.S. Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. and internationally.

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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit? 

Whole Whale

Look for a dashboard that doesn’t require any technical knowledge to set up and that comes with clear instructions on how to use it. Price: Starts at $9.99 – Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI. Data Set : A data set is a collection of data that can be used for analysis. Mixpanel – Wikipedia.

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Get Your Social Media Strategy in Shape With Spreadsheet Aerobics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Then at the end of the month, allocate a half hour to look at the numbers for the month in comparison to other months – and look for insights and trends.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. It answers the "Was it worth doing?" Investment.

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Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart

Tech Soup

With the right knowledge and tools, we believe every nonprofit can better explore its data and spot trends, outliers, and even new opportunities. Below we share tips from our white papers, Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph Is Right for You , to explain when to use a line chart or bar chart.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. What are the trends on all of the above? What content does the best?

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