Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. This blog will provide some suggestions on building your chart of accounts in a manner that is practical and that will satisfy as many users of the financial statements as possible.

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Media Cause

MARCH 8, 2024

At any given moment, world events, social movements, and all manner of crises can shift the fundraising environment as they unfold. While a brief campaign pause to adjust strategy or tone may be appropriate, many nonprofits pull back entirely on any fundraising asks when major events or crises hit the trending charts.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 11, 2021

The chart displays the User License by Profile, which will inform whether the organization will need to purchase additional licenses and/or if there may be users who are assigned licenses, permission set licenses, or feature licenses that they no longer need. Even More Flow Builder Updates!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Taking a few minutes to establish these rules ensures a productive and respectful environment. In this way, you can create an environment where everyone feels energized by the brainstorming process, excited about the next steps, and more or less on the same page. Even using charts and graphs can help a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

One of my favorite icebreakers in face-to-face workshops is called the Human Chart or SpectraGram created by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

As Salesforce has deepened our commitment to the environment, we’ve also been inspired by our customers who have made sustainability fundamental to their missions with innovative approaches. They also use Salesforce to plan and chart a future path to growth. From nonprofits like 350.org University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2022

You’ll find graphics and charts illustrating each of the major discoveries from our survey. The environment is looking better for nonprofit fundraising. What you’ll find in The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022. At the end of 2020, only 16% were anticipating future growth in 2021.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That’s why you need to chart your donor lists carefully. You’ll drive better engagement and create a collaborative environment. This isn’t something to ignore or worry about until later; good communication skills are invaluable to your nonprofit’s income stream. Easier said than done, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments. This section goes beyond just the mechanics of how to create charts and graphs and includes the need for reflection and making changes based on what you’ve learned. Emotional – harness the energy and passion of the team working to achieve them. Communicating Results.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

So, please, before you go and install a left-brained accounting tool into a right-brained environment - step away from your computer/server, put the QuickBooks disc back into the box, take a deep breath, and use your imagination to go to a vantage point where you can see the end goal that Covey speaks about so eloquently. Is it sufficient?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

Tableau is professional-grade data-visualization software that helps you create powerful, interactive data visualizations in the form of charts and graphs. Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart. Windows Server 2012 R2 Comprehensive Online Learning for IT Administrators. For more information, see.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. Often, this means settling for (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint, but no more!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Constant change is a reality in today’s environment but the volatility of the current environment has a lot of nonprofits concerned. Most businesses rely on growth fueled by new products or services to deal with the constant change that is a reality in all business environments. Cash is king. Adaptability.

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. Research & Trends Blackbaud Index fundraising Online Fundraising'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

The charts in these reports show the frequency of funding by source, such as private foundations, corporate giving programs, and local governments. But an environment organization with a highest award of $25,000 would be underperforming when the median highest award is $65,000. Organizational age and U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

They capture their discussion by taking notes on the “tablecloths,” (in this case, it is flip chart paper). The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. When you schedule meetings with prospective major donors, make sure to choose an environment set up for intimate conversation.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Your first step is defining what your mission and programs will look like in an adjusted environment. What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Some grew and matured with the experience. Others redefined personal and professional values.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Stay agile and be ready to adapt your strategies as needed based on new information or developments in the fundraising environment. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. Stay agile and flexible : The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Create a work environment where everyone can thrive. Draw it out into an organizational chart so you can see who will report to who. Create a Comfortable, Inspiring Work Environment Think about the jobs you had in the past. Minimize that for your new hire by creating the work environment you needed when you were new!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

My second blog dealt with setting up the chart of accounts in a nonprofit environment. In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

My second blog post dealt with setting up the Chart of Accounts in a nonprofit environment. See my site for a sample QuickBooks Implementation Questionnaire you can use for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This does not mean predicting the future (an impossible task if ever there was one) but instead means being attuned to rapid and continual shifts in the environment; continually evaluating and interpreting how organizations can best adapt; and experimenting with new responses and approaches.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. It can display data with maps, lists, charts, timelines, and other visual reports. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor. Learn more about Responder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. I’ve charted myself according to times when I reach peak levels of concentration and try as much as can to schedule tasks require it. It can’t be recycled if we squander it.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In today’s modern email marketing environments, lots of focus is placed on design and content – which we can all agree are very important aspects of any email campaign. Importantly, keep a shared calendar (Gantt charts make the best) of planned offline and online communications. This component is called segmentation!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

How Can I Do the Right Thing for the Environment? Check out the Forum for Sustainable & Responsible Investment's chart (click on the Screening & Advocacy tab) to find mutual funds that invest in companies who make a positive impact on the environment (or that avoid companies who are particularly bad.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 282 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2018. Though most BoardAssist clients are New York-based, they serve locally, nationally and internationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is particularly relevant to those who are using online learning environments. It is identified as mid-term adoption technology – as learning analytics continues to be an emerging field, one that is growing quickly, but is still just out of reach for most educators.

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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. Please visit The Blackbaud Index for more information and interactive charts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Charts I created showed that collectively the reengagement centers reengaged 10 percent of opportunity youth in employment and 90 percent of youth in education. I also established an environment of collaboration. I helped to secure funding by analyzing data the reengagement centers shared with OFY.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. Share your policy in your volunteer handbook, letting your volunteers know your Board is committed to a healthy, safe work environment free from harassment of any kind.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment? Which organizations are charting the way, navigating the new tools well? How do nonprofits participate online differently than individuals?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Create an environment where you and supporters learn together; you can start by sharing TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling tips and tools. So define your narrative and empower your fellow changemakers to create stories that chart your collective impact and organizational goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

This is better defined as the place where the interests of the organization and the interests of the communities they serve are aligned within the context of the relationship within the social environment. I am unveiling this chart tomorrow for the first time, but you get a sneak peak. Or the place I like to call the Sweet Spot.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Telework and the Environment. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. Extrapolating those savings across the agency, NSF teleworkers each year collectively spare the environment more than 1 million pounds of emissions and save more than $700,000 in commuting costs.

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