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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

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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A Beginner’s Guide to Nonprofit Financial Reporting

Greater Giving

Essentially, this term refers to the process of pulling your documented financial data and communicating it to stakeholders. Knowing where your nonprofit currently stands financially can help you prepare for future growth, set overarching goals, and chart a course for upcoming multi-year initiatives. Strategic planning.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anyone and everyone, even beginners, can learn how to analyze their own data in Excel. Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. There are several steps in the process. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Sometimes the simplest data are the most useful.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Even platforms with no recurring monthly or yearly fee may require a transaction or processing fee to process donations. The Bloomerang Payments processing fee is 2.2% + $0.30 Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.

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How to Export Universal Analytics Data

Whole Whale

Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, it’s important to understand the different ways you can export data from Universal Analytics to maintain a historical record. Google has a step-by-step process on exporting Universal Analytics data. Before exporting, make sure you have the particular date range set.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

Here are some steps that you can walk through either as an individual looking at this process, or as a team in a workshop setting. These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals.

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What You Need to Know About Windows 10 in 2016

Tech Soup

The tutorial goes from downloading the ISO file to doing the installation steps, with good screenshots of the process. The Windows 10 beginners guide video tutorial is a 38-minute plain language video tutorial that covers how to use the primary new features of Windows 10. Flow chart: Wes Holing. Image 1 : Microsoft.