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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

Tech Soup

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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The Only Time You Should Use a Pie Chart for Your Nonprofit's Data

Tech Soup

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. When to Use a Pie Chart. As we state in our white paper, Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? Overlay pies on maps.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

sgEngage

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. This enables the vendor to account for everything and map your history to a new and optimized chart of accounts.

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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! Keep an eye on nonprofit blogs and bookmark pages that offer new perspectives. . Keep an ear out for podcasts by fellow nonprofit professionals. Utilize the skill sets of those helping your nonprofit.

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Explore funding for U.S. democracy with our free data tool

Candid

You may be curious about which nonprofits are working on what initiatives, like voting access or rights, and who the funders are that support this work, along with civic participation, media access, or other democracy-related activities in the U.S. democracy-related issues from 2011 onward.

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