Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Generally, putting this model into practice looks something like this: You and your team members go out on a retreat to unify your understanding of the organization’s big-picture goals.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit. The purpose of this chart is to help you see how many gifts at each level you will need to hit your goal. Don’t despair.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Announcing your campaign to the public too early (like this) is a common mistake in small capital campaigns. The Two Phases of a Capital Campaign You will be asking folks for a lot of money and support for this project, and it comes in two phases: the quiet phase and the public phase. Once you do that, it’s time to go public.

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Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the charts below, we’ve combined Qgiv’s processing fee and merchant processing fee, so you have a clear picture of the total fee you’re charged per transaction. Qgiv’s Data package includes everything in the Start package plus advanced statistics and integrations with CRMs, email and accounting tools, and Zapier.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Funding of public services is a national conversation. Aggregate data into digestible graphs to communicate mission impact. Unit of service should include demographic data – first tier, second tier and third tier service recipients, as well as, the cost and benefit of services. Impact is how effective we are at driving mission.

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Environment Aggregator Nonprofit Chart 36

Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

TIP: Greater Giving clients can automatically generate an online catalog from entered packages, and transfer them to the Online Bidding feature without any additional data entry. Assigning guests to tables and creating a seating chart. Media and Public Relations Committee. Generating guest lists and assigning bidder numbers.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. I recommend using a tool like Netvibes because it allows you to have a public and/or private dashboard, and is easy to use and customize.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% of legally blind children in public and residential schools used braille as their primary reading medium. What’s alarming is that for decades the number of braille users has been on the decline.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

Here’s a brief overview of some of these updates: Compare your fundraising performance: You can now easily compare and visualize your fundraising by entering in your fundraising revenue to the interactive chart. time to get a fuller picture of charitable giving in the United States. This is the first negative trend in 6 months.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

At Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), we use financial data every day in our work with nonprofits and their funders. One source of data informing this work is our annual State of the Sector Survey. As we look back on what was certainly a challenging year, I thought it would be interesting to revisit some of their expectations.

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Research Survey Model Chart 74

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. By applying simple information-sharing strategies, you can appeal to donors who, in today’s dynamic world, are more sophisticated and demand data when deciding how to allocate funds for donation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work. There's a new section on "Charting Impact" — five questions that probe the results of a charity's work. Here are a few reasons why updating your profile is so useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Web Crawl Data: Click here to see larger image. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. It shows links between URLs that can collectively be called the global commercial finance public issue arena.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Another way to not take short cutes is to operate in public.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." Central Ave.

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Research Arizona Survey Studies 40

sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Help your team be more productive by removing complex procedures and giving them a single source of truth for your data. Having all your data digitally in one system also helps you reduce paper processes, decrease your footprint, and get expenses approved faster. You have reports at the touch of a button with no pivot tables required.

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Government Fund Software Grant 71

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. So there are different pictures that happen. . So use your social media in a way that’s another notch above just posting a picture and saying thank you.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 27, 2014

They simplify complex information and help nonprofit and government organizations to engage, educate, and inform the public of the great work they do in their communities! Keep it simple Cut through the noise and do not overload your audience with data. We hope you enjoyed this blog! Sincerely, The VisionLink Team'

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

The increasing pressure on your nonprofit not just to do good work, but to prove your impact – coupled with the increasing use of databases and online services – has led to exponential growth in data within the nonprofit sector. I'd like to offer four areas we need to address to make the most of our data and increase our impact.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

They have the power to inspire, engage, and ignite action in ways that data and statistics alone cannot. Once you have gathered and analyzed the data, you will have a better idea of how to craft a story that speaks to them. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When I look at the gorgeous examples of what is possible in FlowingData's Best Data Visualization Projects , I wonder how a nonprofit without a big graphic design budget can compete. Silk is a free online data visualization tool. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames.

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Impact Tutorial Map San Francisco 36

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. However, AnnieCannons is also like a business, which is where data and process management gets a little more complicated. Destiny Rescue.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

When I look at the gorgeous examples of what is possible in FlowingData's Best Data Visualization Projects , I wonder how a nonprofit without a big graphic design budget can compete. Silk is a free online data visualization tool. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames.

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Impact Tutorial Map Chart 36

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

You can draw pictures in OneNote with your mouse (or with your finger/stylus on a touchscreen) if you're a visual note-taker. In addition to your sketches, you can also insert pictures, charts, tables, documents, videos, and more into your notes. Evernote is free for up to 60MB per month of data.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Collaboration in the community-driven model doesn’t just mean you invite the public to meetings about what you’re doing, it means they are invited in, invested in, and share responsibility for the work you’re doing together. What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? But think about it in more detail.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Because this information is publically available, supporters can use your nonprofit’s annual Form 990 to track your financial transparency. They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Technically, Form 990 is the only required annual report for nonprofits. Keep donors engaged.

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Template Report Rhode Island Guide 82

M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As always with this series, the hope is that communications professionals will keep the lessons of how coverage of the issue of voting rights shifted in 2020 in mind when charting a course for the future, especially as 2022 midterms fast approach. Community stories trickled up to national attention. Big names drove big coverage .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2016

Whether you’re unveiling the first round of logos to your clients, walking through a data analysis with your grant funder, or even aggrandizing your work experience on that crucial face-to-face job interview, coming across as confident, prepared, and engaging is just as important as the words coming out of your mouth. So how do you do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Note From Beth: If you’ve picked up a copy of the newly released “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World ” than you no doubt noticed the cartoons, created by Rob Cottingham , that begin each chapter. Okay, you like the idea of using cartoons to visualize your data or communicate your ideas.

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