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How to Create Better Charts to Show Fundraising Results

Connection Cafe

In this post, you’ll learn from my mistakes and create better charts for your audience – to show fundraising results, organization’s impact or benchmarking. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Are we guilty of creating such charts ourselves? Here’s a chart from my thesis I created about 15 years ago.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. Collecting and maintaining good data is key to this.

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Mastering Major Gifts: The Ultimate Guide to Raise More

Bloomerang

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. There are two primary parts of a solicitation to keep in mind: the meeting setting and the language you use to ask for a donation.

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. Step 4: Define your benchmarks.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. This statement should use precise language but non-finite verbs. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning and Metrics. Next up was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who gave a fantastic presentation on what metrics Momsrising uses to track their progress – not only KPIs but some of the countring metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics. They revised the language to fit their organizational style.

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Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

NTEN

Tech speaks it's own confusing language, when the only unifying language we all need to speak is MISSION. The Organizational Chart ~ Look for Obstacles. Just as you review the strategic plan to finds the places where tech can be leveraged, you need to read your organizational chart and look for obstacles placed between I.T.

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