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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

.orgSource

Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. Preparing a board to tolerate risk, is a sales process. When we started the company, we had over $1 million worth of business doing slides.

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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.” It can also be used to create work norms or processes. What is Brainstorming? .

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4 proven strategies to increase revenue at your association

Nimble AMS

During this process, take steps to form a diverse and inclusive SME volunteer group. Use videos, charts, games, slide decks, checklists, and interviews within your training courses to engage members and keep them coming back for more. . Start by surveying your members to get a sense of their background and trade knowledge.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” Better Method: Create Visualizations of Important Data and Pull Together On One Slide.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 2a: Analytics Data as User Research

Connection Cafe

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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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Even platforms with no recurring monthly or yearly fee may require a transaction or processing fee to process donations. The Bloomerang Payments processing fee is 2.2% + $0.30 Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.