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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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How to Prepare Donor Data Reports for Your Board Members

Bloomerang

Doing so can be as simple as sharing a chart with these metrics from the past year: Total dollars raised: overall dollars acquired through fundraising initiatives. This will provide a frame of reference for this year’s performance in comparison to the previous year, allowing your board to pinpoint key areas they should focus on going forward.

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How to Set Up Your Nonprofit Accounting System RIGHT So it Helps You Grow

Get Fully Funded

The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. A simple report with a pie chart can easily show you that. A report showing comparisons can help you see this increase. So set up your Chart of Accounts right from the get-go. Maybe that’s you!

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

Where appropriate, we’ll also draw out some conclusions and comparisons to help contextualize where and how GivingTuesday can fit into your nonprofit’s overall strategy. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m. It can have an immediate impact on revenue!

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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Data Visualization Do’s and Don’ts for Every Organization

DNL OmniMedia

This could include noting different points of data exploration, such as filtering data views or comparing specific charts. Choose the right format: Align data with the appropriate chart type to ensure complex information is easily readable. It also helps to identify external factors that may impact data patterns.

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