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Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction

Everyaction

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. or relying on (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint. For many organizations, that's probably all they'll ever need.

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The Better FAFSA: What Colleges Need to Know Right Now

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It also takes federal tax information directly from the IRS and transfers it into the form, rather than asking students and families to manually enter certain data. The delays with the Better FAFSA have forced many colleges to get creative, leveraging CSS profiles in lieu of the SAR or as a backup tool until they receive FAFSA data.

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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Ensuring compliance and accuracy in your financial reporting involves several key actions: Regularly review the latest guidelines and summaries provided by authoritative bodies on revenue recognition of grants and contracts. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA).

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A Beginner’s Guide to Nonprofit Financial Reporting

Greater Giving

Essentially, this term refers to the process of pulling your documented financial data and communicating it to stakeholders. According to Jitasa , you can use the information you glean from financial reports for: Data-driven decision-making. Reporting is a key aspect of nonprofit financial management. Risk management.

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Exploring the Reporting Advantages of Salesforce Over Blackbaud CRM (BBCRM)

Cloud 4 Good

In Salesforce, users possess the inherent ability to not only report on the account itself, but also the contacts (people) in that account, as well as the relationships, addresses, giving summary values, and everything else that is connected to the account object.

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Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics.

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How to Write a Case for Support for Your Non-Profit (Part II)

The Fundraising Authority

#3: History of the Organization – Give a brief summary of the founding of your organization and a short history of its work to date. #4: 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: Give a short explanation of each. #5:

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