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10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Surprisingly, there is little concrete data on which set of donation amounts results in the highest increase in online giving. For example, Children International : Also, provided your program vs. operating expense ratio is good ( 75%/25% ), create a simple pie chart graphic that illuminates your program and operating costs.

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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). How to Avoid: Narratives should succinctly highlight achievements, financial strategies, and future plans in layman’s terms, while dashboards provide a visual summary of trends, ratios, and key indicators at a glance.

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How to Tell Your Donors Where Their Money Is Going

NonProfit Hub

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. Your charity’s overhead ratio is not necessarily an indicator of its success, but rather a way to offer insight about how funds are broken down. So far, these tips have been very data-focused. Make it visual.

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Visualizing the Tate's Collection: What Open Data Makes Possible

Museum 2.0

What does "big data" look like for museums? Collecting institutions have enormous stacks of data about the artifacts and artworks in their stores. The data is in a computer language called.JSON that is commonly used for data sharing and processing. What can you do with these.JSON files? These visualizations are fun.

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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? However, as Stephen notes, the data is very useful. Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

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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Guest Post: Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GuideStar’s vision is to drive philanthropy by increasing nonprofit data collection, distribution, and innovation. This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Data is meaningless without context. It’s simple.

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