Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. Staff entered, cleaned, and coded this data using largely manual processes. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ground Rules “It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Even using charts and graphs can help a lot.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

With a little preparation and proactive communication, your remote audit can be a smooth process that helps you start the year understanding where you are. Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit. Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This week, Greater Giving surpassed over $8 billion in processed donations since 2002. That’s $8 billion given to nonprofits delivered by our state-of-the-art credit card processing system directly to nonprofits’ to help further their causes. Are you processing donations manually? Automatically process donations.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Your CRM, or customer relationship management system, stores and organizes information about your existing customers. Market research is the process of gathering information about current and potential customers for your product or service, as well as general trends for your industry (e.g., Perform market research.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

Be Intentional About What Data You Collect and Where With applications integrated directly into your grants management system and partnerships with organizations such as Candid, the days of pages-long grant applications are behind us. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You process lots of information, discuss, debate and brainstorm. You fill flip chart after flip chart with ideas. What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? It seems like we are spending our lives on Zoom and other video conferencing systems these days. But What About Zoom Fatigue?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This is an immense victory for fair use as the basis of a balanced intellectual property system, and we, at Benetech, are delighted by it and by its tremendous positive implications for the public interest. A federal district court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s process was fair use under U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As you look ahead to your organization’s new year of growth and engagement, tech strategy updates should definitely be a part of the picture. This is what makes integrated CRM systems so strategically important for nonprofits as they grow. If your organization needs or wants to make major upgrades to outdated systems.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The Return on Investment financial process was created by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to help make General Motors manageable in the 1920s. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. May initially feel like “extra work” but should be embedded in your implementation process.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

and what the voting and decision-making process will be. Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. By creating by-laws, you’re setting a standard for how your Board must function.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

CST represents pre-scheduled donations that were processed at that time. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m. Steady Hourly Volume: No, your donors probably aren’t making GivingTuesday donations in the early morning hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. Of course as with any methodology, this presents a limited picture.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . And we provide program management services to other nonprofits.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? Maybe you want to make internal processes, such as reporting, easier for your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

And should an opportunity or issue arise where the fund might be used, the board knows the full picture. Your fund accounting system has a variety of reports you can use to communicate your financial information. Even if it doesn’t change from meeting to meeting, it’s important for them to understand your overall financial standing.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Your Nonprofit Business Plan not only answers these questions in a format that’s easy to read and understand, but explains your organization and its processes clearly and factually. Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

But just because your accounting is complicated—with hundreds of ways monies flow in and out of your budget—it doesn’t mean your accounting system has to be difficult to use. Fund accounting software is an accounting system designed to make managing restricted funds streamlined and easy to track.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

We were talking before the webinar started about the onboarding process. I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. So there are different pictures that happen. . And what I want to say is thank you to Bloomerang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. What's your guess?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2021

In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator , we showed how the connection between the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Education Data Architecture (EDA) provides your advancement team with both alumni data as well as giving history. Read More ». Read More ».

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

” And you’re inviting them to join that process. And if you don’t have a recruitment process in place, I’m going to encourage you to have a recruitment process in place. And they don’t have a process. They don’t have a process where they sit down and say, “Okay.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Even if Bloomerang isn’t the one being recommended, that’s okay because we know there’s a lot of good systems out there. So the thing I want you to remember is you can change a lot about your experience of your systems without moving, without moving. So I can picture your office or your home office. Number one.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Problem: AnnieCannons employs only three full-time staff members in their fight against human trafficking, which means it needs to be as efficient as possible in managing its contacts and business processes. However, AnnieCannons is also like a business, which is where data and process management gets a little more complicated.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The chart below from Candid.org, shows that disaster relief is not new, but often times the organizations that focus on disaster relief can rally quickly. The technology that his multiple review committees used this year was human centered and focused on design elements that simplified the process. Focus on human-centered design.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Also, I’ve provided several great tools toward the end of this article to help you with this process. As someone who has struggled through the process of calculating the average donor’s lifespan, I would recommend the above formula instead. Donor Retention Rate. 2020 # of Retained Donors/2019 Total # of Donors. You can do this!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Because organized efforts are based on goals and the work or process itself, it’s easy for communities to iterate or change at any time and remain flexible in the decisions and steps created towards achieving those driving goals. Users can search, browse and otherwise navigate the library with this interactive system. Innovation Today.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

We looked at media coverage of white supremacy across 100 top national and international news outlets in 2020, and considered a number of different search terms to inform our analysis of how the media examined systemic racism and violence against Black people.

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