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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. Clearly “seeing” those systems is important for success. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls. All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia.

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Write Your Nonprofit Business Plan in 9 Sections

Get Fully Funded

Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. You should have a data collection system that helps evaluate which fundraising techniques bring in new donors and which techniques help you retain donors or take them to the next level. Management and Organizational Charts. What is your mechanism for follow-up?

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. You might be surprised that recycling or ditching straws are low down on this list, given the attention they are given in the media and education systems, and, as we mentioned, these do have their place but we need to do more.

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Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them: Interview with The She Spot co-author, Lisa Witter

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. You might be surprised that recycling or ditching straws are low down on this list, given the attention they are given in the media and education systems, and, as we mentioned, these do have their place but we need to do more.

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