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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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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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. Make sure your internal control documentation includes the naming conventions, so your audit team doesn’t have to slow down the process by asking what specific entries are.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

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., This streamlines processes for your business and its customers. To make completing the process easy, you link to the half-completed form.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. It's powerful workflows are meant to help nonprofit fundraisers ditch spreadsheets once and for all, and track major gifts like never before. #7. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. There are several steps in the process. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Pictures are worth a thousand words.

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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. Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Research Questions. Deliverables.

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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? So the prospect of doing your whole strategic planning process online as well might fill you with dread. But What About Zoom Fatigue?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Whether you’re advancing from within an organization, assuming an executive director position, or starting a nonprofit, the budgeting process is the first step to grasping an organization’s financial health and future. Nonprofit Accounting Basic #4: Know the “Big Picture” of Your Organization’s Finances.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit. The purpose of this chart is to help you see how many gifts at each level you will need to hit your goal. Don’t despair.

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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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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. Without a clear view of the bigger picture, you can easily find yourself swamped with ineffective, outdated, or redundant tools. Why would a nonprofit create one? Steps to Follow.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If not using an automated or mobile bidding platform: Tracking sales at the event and entering them into event software or other database. Special roles for tracking item donations, making bid sheets or designing and displaying auction packages. Tracking sponsorships throughout the solicitation process, from lead to completion.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” and what the voting and decision-making process will be. Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Here are some steps that you can walk through either as an individual looking at this process, or as a team in a workshop setting. These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals.

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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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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 4, 2017

The main module of charity auction software is the event planning platform, which provides nonprofits with a place to track all auction data and manage event logistics. Track auction item data. Assign seating charts. For one, the event planning process will run seamlessly when managed from one platform. Manage RSVPs.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

It can fast track important projects. They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. In fairness, some of the reluctance is probably due to entrenched processes for electing or appointing directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. There are many many different metrics you could track.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When you think about your reporting goals, you’ll put your organization on track for success. What goals show your members and key stakeholders that you’re on track to fulfill your mission? Pictures can go a long way in keeping readers actively engaged with your report. Make your report stand out with the right tools.

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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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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Fund accounting software provides government agencies with the organization they need to track hundreds of funds while also establishing the internal controls and transparency required when stewarding constituent money. Fund accounting software is an accounting system designed to make managing restricted funds streamlined and easy to track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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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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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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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Also, I’ve provided several great tools toward the end of this article to help you with this process. If you could only track one metric annually to monitor your fundraising, it should be donor retention. Should we eliminate the golf outing? Donor Retention Rate.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So I can picture your office or your home office. Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . You could say, “Mary, I would love to get your suggestions of how we can improve our batch gift entry process. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. So, yep, this is me.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. Foundation Center uses an agile process in their data mining. They created a data warehouse that tracked not only student progress in school, but progress from cradle to career.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Many nonprofit professionals greet the annual reporting process with apprehension. This post is designed to guide your organization through the nonprofit annual report creation process. Because this information is publically available, supporters can use your nonprofit’s annual Form 990 to track your financial transparency.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

The search term “white supremacy” yielded just over 8,100 articles from the 100 outlets we scanned—and we quickly found that it was a term that offered a fuller picture of the conversations happening across many institutions last year. Top Trends and Lessons from 2020 News Coverage of White Supremacy.

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