Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI).

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

You also love a nice chart. We get it, who doesn’t love data presented in a nice visual format? We get it, who doesn’t love data presented in a nice visual format? What we’re planning for 2024 (and you can steal for your strategy) Our results follow broader trends in social media. But our data doesn’t lie—you love them!

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Whether its for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data in an easily understandable way. Often, this results in either hiring a graphic designer, assigning herculean design tasks to interns(!),

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M+R

APRIL 27, 2023

The maître d’ has called your name, the table is set, and the napkins are folded up like fancy little swans: it’s time to dig in to a year’s worth of M+R Benchmarks charts, findings, and insights at mrbenchmarks.com ! But the results for nonprofits in the Disaster/International Aid space looked very different.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Council on Foundations’ 2023 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report Key Findings (for which Candid provided data analysis) offer a broad picture: Median full-time staff salaries for select roles rose 5.49% between 2022 and 2023, i as reported by a non-representative panel of 514 grantmaking organizations.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Admins and Developers will be particularly interested in the many updates to Einstein Search, inline editing from reports now being generally released, and even more functionality added to Flow Builder. Dynamic Gauge Charts in Dashboards (Beta). For example, the gauge chart can display a subtotal of a subsidiary (i.e.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

According to the 2019 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report , online giving grew 6.8% It’s also worth noting that according to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 10% of donors worldwide prefer to give directly through their bank account. per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Read time: 4 minutes Are you done running reports for your 2023 year-end fundraising? Email fundraising has become increasingly difficult, but many of the organizations in our sample of 24 nonprofits saw strong results this December. Good, it’s time to start planning for 2024 year-end fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, did you know there are at least five different types of “years” when it comes to nonprofit data? Fiscal year When we talk about nonprofit data, though, perhaps the most important “year” to understand is the fiscal year. The chart below shows the percentage of nonprofits that have fiscal years ending in each month.

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Forum One

JANUARY 10, 2014

In early November last year, the news headlines were bursting with news about the 2013 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments for mathematics and reading, and how for the first time ever this exciting data was available to all through a new set of engaging and interactive charts.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Businesses deal with a lot of data, and analyzing it in its raw form is frequently difficult. The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Tableau is the most extensively used data visualization application.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Nonprofits everywhere are struggling to get their hands on reliable, useful workplace giving data from corporate giving programs. Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? The result? Too many sources of donor data to keep track of. What about the data? Everything.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A nonprofit CRM tracks donors, manages email and communication history, and provides comprehensive reporting. Innovating fundraising with CRM integration Implementing a nonprofit CRM system like Bloomerang is about more than just managing donor data. Data-driven strategies: Informed fundraising is successful fundraising.

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

We are excited to report that the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for you. Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . Here: Nonprofits working to alleviate Hunger and Poverty reported a 173% increase in online revenue. 2020 M+R Benchmarks Study—A Data Odyssey: The Recording.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

So, when it comes to communicating your impact story, many foundations need to rely on the data in their form 990 to tell their story. Depending on the context and clarity you provide in your 990-PF, the resulting narrative might not be what you or your grantees expect. The key is to be intentional.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the long-term intent is to simply the process and increase college accessibility, the short-term impact of the delays has meant a great deal of frustration for students and their families and major restraints on colleges that have historically relied on the resulting Student Aid Reports (SAR) to determine non-federal financial aid packages.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

SAP Visual Intelligence software takes massive amounts of data and transforms it into colorful, easy-to-grasp visual displays. Users can input data in seconds with a couple of points and clicks. Drag and Drop for Visually Stunning Results. Try It Out and See if You're a Data Geek. The screenshots don't lie.

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

I followed the same methods 1 used to calculate National Equal Pay Day but focused specifically on the total reportable compensation of the 46k women CEOs and 42k men CEOs included in Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report 2. The short answer is yes—*practically* every way I cut the data, the gender gap persisted.

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M+R

APRIL 29, 2021

Some folks head straight to mrbenchmarks.com , exploring the full data set and following their own path down the rabbit hole of charts and findings. Here: Nonprofits working to alleviate Hunger and Poverty reported a 173% increase in online revenue. 2020 M+R Benchmarks Study—A Data Odyssey: The Recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results. It’s not enough to collect data, the real magic happens when applied to decision making, becoming a data-informed organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. And going back to retroactively enter data is a huge time-consuming headache. MYTH: Nobody has time to enter data into an Accounting program.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data analytics and technology are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. With each new advancement, trends in healthcare technology promise to improve standard care coordination and data management for increased patient satisfaction. billion by 2027.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The report offers a couple of key findings: Nonprofits very much want to be able to understand their performance and are taking steps to do so. This is similar to the finding in the NTEN/Idealware study that discovered the barriers that keep nonprofits from collecting and using data: expertise, time, and money.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . Track your own data. Above that average?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

The data says we should move on. Two recent reports share data about the actual role celebrity connection plays in nonprofit fundraising and both say the same thing: forget celebrities. The 2011 Millennial Donor report , the second in an annual series, focuses on engaging Millennials in fundraising.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

How can they get the rest of the team to focus and understand the critical financial reports their nonprofit is generating? Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports. Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging. Close the books and issue financial reports each month.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Instead of setting it in stone, set check-in milestones and make adjustments based on your progress and results. The result is discord among teams and a lack of progress.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

While I don’t have a crystal ball, I do have some association trends data that can help. Results from the study suggest that association professionals (Pros) are working harder than they were a year ago, with time and member engagement being the biggest challenges to achieving organizational priorities. Sharpen your use of data.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data. for ACH transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight. How do we turn data into Insights? Know What Success Is. They felt accomplished.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

They adapted Liz Neeley from Compass’s spreadsheet ! They collected the data and now were ready to set up their dashboard. Slideshare how do i say it with charts from Beth Kanter. See above). What I always love about peer learning approaches is that we slow down, take it in small steps, and begin to build good practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

For many non-profits, data crunching is everything. Case in point: one area of data management where many non-profits fall woefully short is in the organization of volunteer assets. And yet a huge majority—93 percent—report that “the most important functionality lets staff track volunteer activities and the number of hours worked.”

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