Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). One of my favorites is called Troika Consulting from Liberating Structures. Two of the participants are the “consultants” and one person is the “client.” . The client gets a few minutes to share their challenge while the consultants simply listen.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Use Data to Drive Decisions The fancy graphics and charts that technology makes available aren’t show ponies. See Broadly Our books highlighted themes that are important for success in our consulting business as well as for our clients in the association community. I can relate to the brand on my own terms.

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Associations Jordan Environment Model 221

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. 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.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 105

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you have a goal to bring in an additional $20,000 in unrestricted funding this year, create a chart on your dashboard that shows your progress, so you see it every time you open your fund accounting system. Is your chart of accounts unmanageable? Do they give you the information you need? Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 88

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. The plan also incorporates a timeline chart depicting when each goal is projected to be completed by. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 122

sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles.

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Relationship Practice Build Evaluation 102

Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Now look at the same data in a pie chart. . Author information Sean Hale Owner at Sean Hale Consulting Sean has served nonprofits for more than twenty years. If so, congratulations, you’re a part of a small, elite group! For everyone else who can’t: you form part of a very large majority. Isn’t this more engaging?

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Report Nonprofit eBook Chart 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. There is also a section that discusses additional methods such using open data sets and program evaluation that may require hiring a consultant. Meaning Making.

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Resource Practice Data Work 105

Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2013

Tools for Creating Infographics, Charts, and Diagrams. Making a useful, shareable infographic or chart takes some planning. For big projects or large sets of data, you might want to consult with a professional designer or somebody on staff with design skills. Did you use a web tool or consult with a professional designer?

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Library Tools Chart Template 74

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Please consult your accountant for financial decisions. It’s a standardized template that enhances the consistency and comparability of nonprofit financial statements.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 85

The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Use statistics and charts, but more importantly, tell the stories of those you have helped, use testimonials, and then back those up with the numbers. #6: Select one person (generally from the staff or an outside consultant) to write the case statement. Give a short explanation of each. #5:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

sgEngage

MAY 19, 2023

Using a fund accounting system with a segmented chart of accounts requires fewer clicks and selections to track an expense, which reduces the potential for errors and helps to ensure your data integrity. Dimensional, also called table-based, tracks each element in your chart of accounts separately.

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Chart Fund Grant Integration 77

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Consider this: The average pay of a white woman in the United States is 78 cents on the dollar, compared to her counterpart… and much lower for women of color (see chart, below). A nationally noted consultant and trainer, Peggy has worked with more than 700 nonprofits.

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Research New Jersey United States Austin 52

fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You fill flip chart after flip chart with ideas. A strategic thinker, through her work with Grace Social Sector Consulting , Carol works with teams and organizations to envision and frame their future strategic direction. She is also part of a consultant collective focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, All In Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. The skills are out there.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

They now work with higher level books with charts, graphs and equations and can turn around books for us in 24 hours if necessary. Today two years later they digitize about 150,000 pages a month and have far surpassed their goal of a million pages.

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Skype India California Chart 168

Care2

JULY 6, 2012

The next time a board member or consultant says to you, “Hey how come we don’t do more with Facebook Tabs to promote our campaigns," show them this data. Take a look at the chart below. Since Facebook introduced Timeline, brands engagement using Tabs has gone way down.

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Facebook Chart Game Consultant 70

Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. Understand in advance that you’ll need two or more years to conduct it from start to finish and that you’ll likely need to invest in increased staffing, consulting or coaching services , new tools, and events along the way.

Campaign 52

Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2018

Your nonprofit consultant. Consider an external nonprofit consultant to guide your team through the capital campaign process. If your nonprofit doesn’t yet have someone in line to take on the role of campaign director, your nonprofit consultant can step in as an embedded capital campaign director for the duration of your campaign.

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Campaign Chart Consultant Gift 27

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

How to Create Better Charts to Show Fundraising Results by Ashutosh Nandeshwar, University of Southern California. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Follow Ashutosh’s tips to make sure no one asks those questions the next time you share a chart! What am I supposed to learn from this?”

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Blackbaud Chart Trend Museum 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

At an upcoming staff meeting, you might create a chart for each month and post it around the room, then ask staff to mark key dates on the charts – including events, conferences, key issues up for consideration in the legislature, or program milestones. These can be gold mines of content for your communications platforms.

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Calendar Voice Chart Content 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Why you should attend: This session will help you best chart out your social media strategy specifically to help drive donor engagement. Learn how to build a powerful individual giving strategy for a small nonprofit with Kelly McLaughlin, Fundraising + Strategic Planning Consultant. It’s been a long year.

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Digital Fundraising Social Media Grant 52

NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" it excels at creating GANTT charts, which can then be used to promote and communicate about the project. The answer to that question is a resounding denial.

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Project Tools Management Sharepoint 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. Image by Ayyamsyria. What’s your favorite app for productivity, wellness, or happiness?

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Here are our top takeaways and a glimpse of the inspiration attendees experienced onsite.

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Social Media Trend Storyboard Montana 52

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S. All Rights Reserved

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Blackbaud Benchmark Nonprofit Chart 92

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Some grew and matured with the experience. Others redefined personal and professional values. A few stepped back or even left.

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Training Train Volunteer Effective 105

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Crystal Coleman is a community manager and consultant in Silicon Valley as well as a writer for Persephone Magazine. TechSoup hosted the San Francisco Online Community Meetup which recently featured Marc A.

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Map Network San Francisco Analysis 57

BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Highlight key performance indicators.

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Report Ratio Comparison Chart 40

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts?

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 81

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

IT Consultants or Staff. What does the nonprofit's chart of accounts currently look like? Does the chart use account names that are understandable to all readers? How does it sync up with the Chart of Accounts? STEP 2 - Setting Up the Chart of Accounts in a Nonprofit Environment. Development Director.

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Chart Brain Environment Nonprofit 53

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When we had seven people, we barely needed an organizational chart. I was also suspicious of consultants (the Packard Foundation funds capacity building largely by paying for consultants). Running a small, unorthodox nonprofit, I’d had bad experiences with consultants who didn’t seem to give us their full attention.

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Org Learning Structure Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Here’s a few tips: We took a photo of any flip chart notes, instructions, or report information we needed to reference. However, this was far from it.

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Tips Brain Facilitation Chart 50

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

Working with a tech consultant at this stage can be particularly helpful for orienting your team before setting new priorities. Will you need to hire a tech consultant? Developing a detailed TCO (total cost of ownership) chart will help ensure your team understands both the short- and long-term costs of any new tools or tech changes.

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Tech Develop Strategy Guide 42