sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. In working with a nonprofit intermediary, we brought together a knowledge team that met monthly over the course of nine months.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 105

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These are strategies that allow associations to see a real-time picture of their members’ needs.” I’ve often thought that the model could work effectively in an association environment.” The concepts can range from technology tools, to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific.

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Associations Jordan Environment Model 221

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. To help you work through these decisions, and what to do about the maybes, check out our conversation guide, Aligning on a Revenue-Wise Strategy. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 88

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization. You re-establish the common mission that everyone on your team is working towards.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 122

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Be sure you’ve done the prep work to establish roles and responsibilities, prepare supplies, and bring in tools to facilitate your brainstorming session. If you’re meeting in person, try to draw simple pictures. Even using charts and graphs can help a lot. A picture often really is worth 1,000 words. Well, almost.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 99

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Boost your fundraising team’s effectiveness with Nonprofit Fundraising Software that supports and maximizes their work. Nonprofit fundraising teams are hard-working and dedicated to their cause, but that doesn’t mean that they have time for stress and headache in the workplace. Find out what works and what doesn’t.

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Software Team Fundraising Registration 97

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Make sure all stakeholders are aware of the organization’s strategic plan as they work on and review the budget. Provide the appropriate tools : Find a budging tool that works for your organization, including opportunities to group programs together by impact area and clear reporting features to help you stay on track.

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Process Create Review Stream 95

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better.

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Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

Candid

MAY 12, 2021

Because of the way Form 990 deadlines work, the answer is complicated. As the charts below illustrate, we’re far from having comprehensive data for 2019, let alone 2020. We’re exploring ways to adjust our methods to work around the delay and meet the demand for this research. A status update on filings.

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Grant Data Files Method 136

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. To help you work through these decisions, and what to do about the maybes, check out our conversation guide, Aligning on a Revenue-Wise Strategy. Do they give you the information you need? Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 85

Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

They’re looking at the big picture, the potential of AI to help us understand our constituents better, improve our operations, and ultimately serve our mission more effectively. They’re envisioning a future where our work becomes more streamlined, our insights more robust, and our impact more profound.

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Adopt Generation Picture Reflection 52

sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

By centering your grantee’s capabilities, you are more likely to get the information to tell a clear story about how you support their work instead of asking for information they can’t or don’t have the resources to provide. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists. Need help making sense of your GMS data?

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Story Impact Trend Grant 73

Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you own a dog kennel, you could integrate your website with Gingr’s dog boarding software to allow customers to conveniently make reservations and payments, sign forms, and see pictures of their pets while they stay with you.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. The more you work to improve your nonprofit leadership skills, the faster and stronger your nonprofit can grow. The old saying “many hands make light work” is true. Where do you need to improve?

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

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! Truly any project that is specific and requires a significant amount of money to pull off could work as a capital campaign project. Get some estimates to see what the work would likely cost. Don’t despair.

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Campaign Build Pledge Phase 68

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Working with a lean budget and stakeholders who care about where every dollar goes means that the stakes and expectations for financial management are sky-high for nonprofits. To help you work through these decisions, and what to do about the maybes, check out our conversation guide, Aligning on a Revenue-Wise Strategy.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

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. Collecting and using data is hard work! Pictures are worth a thousand words. Charts can showcase your organization’s most important findings.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Report Data Tools Stats 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.” Before you hire a designer, work with your in-house design or do it yourself, it is a good idea to identify the goal, audience, data, and key message that you to communicate. If you need a professionally designed infographic for your work, definitely work with a professional.

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Design Colorado Chart Storytelling 131

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Capital campaigns are a great reason to talk about the work your nonprofit does. A new or improved facility is a lot of work and can come with increased expenses, more responsibility, and a lot of upkeep. It won’t work. Increased awareness. First Things First…Are You Really Ready for Your First Capital Campaign?

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Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

Courtney’s session covered side-by-side examples posing the question of which worked best – succinct vs long-form, etc. Clay Buck always delivers a fresh perspective on fundraising and in this session, he opened up the door for fundraisers to consider how they might reach their overall fundraising goal using a gift chart. .

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Guide Gift Donor Retention 122

Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” “Map out the story you need to tell.

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Social Media Trend Storyboard Montana 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

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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Tools Chart Grant PowerPoint 43

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training.

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Training Train Volunteer Effective 105

fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You have lunch brought in so you can work without a break. You fill flip chart after flip chart with ideas. There are many benefits to pacing strategic planning sessions and working virtually. Some of these include: Working with more clear and defined goals for each session groups go further faster. Creating Norms.

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Online Doc Group Chart 52

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. Pull detailed, customizable reports.

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2015

Task pane: A new pane simplifies common tasks like formatting chart images and building formulas. Recommended charts: Get help choosing the best chart for your data. Capture notes: Take notes, format them, and insert pictures. New Features in Excel. New Features in PowerPoint. OneNote is now included in Office for Mac.

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PowerPoint Sharepoint Chart Calendar 36

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Checks and Balances: Having checks and balances isn’t just for nonprofits, but we are subject to certain requirements that protect the public nature of our work and funding. Nonprofit Accounting Basic #4: Know the “Big Picture” of Your Organization’s Finances. Think of this in terms of a pie chart, not a donor list.

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Team Nonprofit Profit Fund 77

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

It’s a remarkably ineffective way of working for an industry built on numbers. . “We What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . Without this information, you’re flying blind. — Kevin Shulman for the Agitator-DonorVoice.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a nonprofit professional, you’re probably all too familiar with some of the many ways in which technology has completely changed how work gets done in our sector. 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.

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Tech Develop Strategy Guide 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. In the last question, we were asked to add a final or revised solution. We worked in small teams.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the charts below, we’ve combined Qgiv’s processing fee and merchant processing fee, so you have a clear picture of the total fee you’re charged per transaction. Merchant processing fees Qgiv works with credit card processing services on behalf of your organization. per transaction.

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Platform Mobile Process Data 52

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

What are the big picture conversations about? The chart below highlights that upward trend. Applying Complete Capital means thinking creatively about how all our resources— financial, intellectual, social and human— can be brought to bear on a system that is no longer working (and may in fact never have worked well).

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Research Results Government Survey 79