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Back to Basics: How to Set Up Your Nonprofit Chart of Accounts

Blue Fox

Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) Are you ready to nerd out on nonprofit accounting? Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) - the foundational accounting tool every nonprofit leader needs to get right for maximum financial insight and awareness. What is a Chart of Accounts? It’s just that important.

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How To Write An Impactful Nonprofit Annual Report

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Do we need to engage an external freelancer (writing and/or design)? Who will write the Executive Director letter? Are we gathering photos all year long so we have enough come time to prepare our report? Is our donor list accurate and up-to-date?

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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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3 Infographic Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

is the founder of Data Viz for Nonprofits , a design consultancy that delivers high-quality visualizations that help organizations to quickly grasp their data, improve their work, and show their impact. So, they hire a graphic designer (if they have some extra change in their pockets) or they use DIY with programs like Canva or Spark.

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Launching the Latest Nonprofit Trends Report: How We Designed a Global Study

Saleforce Nonprofit

Launching the Latest Nonprofit Trends Report: How We Designed a Global Study. The dozens of charts, tables, and nonprofit CEO quotes — that we struggled to squeeze into its more than 50 pages — provide a thought-provoking overview of the state of the nonprofit sector. Many of the findings are surprising. Others are provocative.

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Dashboard Design Principles

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If a dashboard fails to tell you what need in glance, then you’ve wasted all that data collection time. What if you married with the power of a dashboard with visual design? It has been around for a while, and it was actually fun to read – as well as having beautiful visual design. Step C: Select the right chart. (5)

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Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction

Everyaction

Often, this results in either hiring a graphic designer, assigning herculean design tasks to interns(!), or relying on (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint. Plus, there's no limit to the amount of charts users can create, and they can be quickly shared with other EveryAction users.

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