Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Peer Assist: There are many ways to structure a peer assist where participants listen to each other’s challenges and provide advice. One of my favorites is called Troika Consulting from Liberating Structures. You put three people into each breakout room.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Often, organizational structures within individual facilities and departments create their own data platforms and workflows that are not aligned with one another. Additionally, this digital shift to increased data interoperability means less chart chasing and improved quality care.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. This will look like the goal chart you’ve created previously, but will focus more on specific parts of your nonprofit’s development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

The ideas can be captured on a flip chart or participants can write them down on sticky notes and post them on a wall. Write them on a flip chart, white board, or slide so everyone can see it. Write the initial topic on a flip chart, whiteboard or slide where everyone can see it. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

Use videos, charts, games, slide decks, checklists, and interviews within your training courses to engage members and keep them coming back for more. . Your association already has a set membership structure relevant to your members’ needs. Do so, by adding several types of content to your learning management system (LMS).

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

The next step is to store this in your company’s cloud storage (Microsoft 360 or Google Drive) in a structured manner. When exporting historical information from Universal Analytics, it’s important to establish a consistent file naming structure to ensure that your data is organized and easy to work with.

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Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

The chart below shows the percentage of nonprofits that have fiscal years ending in each month. Form year is particularly important to pay attention to on the rare occasions that the IRS makes changes to the form, as such changes will impact the structure of the data from one form year to the next. February 1,592 0.31 March 6,409 1.27

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Discovery process All of our Fonteva implementations begin with a Waterfall discovery process, to visualize how the new processes will work in practice, and chart a functionality roadmap for how your Fonteva system will evolve after launch.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Original sentence: To get a chart of heart-healthy activities, click here. Rewrite: Review our chart of heart-healthy activities. Parallel construction” means organizing a series of thoughts (or bullets) using a similar grammatical structure or format.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Both fundraising and finance staff need to be using the same chart of accounts structure for the fund designations to align. A wise practice is to sit down with finance department staff before your appeal goes out. Discuss the purpose of the appeal, and how the money raised will be allocated.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. We had several flip chart pages on the wall that were divided into quarters with the following labels: Keep, Delete, Adjust, Amplify. We used a private group on What’s App to do this during the event so it was simple to capture.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. We rarely like to acknowledge the competitive nature of the sector, but it is beyond real, and competition is another dynamic that funders have created and now sustain with their flawed grantmaking structures.

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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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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? Setting a timeline and deadlines helps you develop a well-structured fundraising campaign. A free and very easy-to-use tool, that I recommend and use, is an Excel Spreadsheet. Be present in more than one communication channel.

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Campaign Fundraising Channel Mail 90

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Even using charts and graphs can help a lot. If you’re meeting in person, try to draw simple pictures. They don’t have to be fine art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

We’ve become addicted to generating pretty charts and graphs, while taking any opportunity to play with any new (and especially free) social media measurement tool that we read about on blogs. Photographer. Front of House team. Museum Management. Fundraising team.

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Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. Policies and procedures give volunteers the information and structure they need to feel confident in their role, especially when they are just getting started.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

They also use Salesforce to plan and chart a future path to growth. It completes this mission by leveraging Salesforce technology, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and structured finance to create green buildings in America’s urban core. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. In short, things feel like they’re dragging along much slower than expected. What should you do instead?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. 6 internal factors The internal factors concern the organizational structure of your nonprofit: capacity, board support and engagement, strategy and planning, leadership issues, communication issues, and budget and finance.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 77

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes. Technological change – new software and systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

This structure ensures that decision makers get the most important information about nonprofits quickly and easily. Our reorganized profiles offer a clearer view of each nonprofit organization. We begin with a summary and then group your information into three categories: Programs and Results . Operations.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In the first rectangle, I sketched out one version of how our organization could be structured. After an hour, I had 12 different versions of our staff structure, each in its own little box. When we had seven people, we barely needed an organizational chart. But I resisted structure. Some were impractical. It got chaotic.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Highlight key performance indicators.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Once you have a vision and plan of how the reporting should come out of the system you can work backwards to determine the best structure and setup to use in QuickBooks. What does the nonprofit's chart of accounts currently look like? Does the chart use account names that are understandable to all readers? Is it sufficient?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 16, 2015

Now let’s get more specific: Organizational Structure. You probably don’t have enough staff for an organizational chart, but you could include one eventually. You may also want to include a few sentences about your marketing plan and how you plan to finance your organization over both the short- and long- term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Wall Writing: This an exercise where participants will write specific responses on labeled charts on the wall at designated times. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Program Director Membership Fees KEEP COSTS LOW Maintain current membership fee structure while improving member benefits to boost retention. Marketing Manager Charity Auctions CLOSE DOWN Shift focus to more sustainable and cost-effective fundraising methods such as digital campaigns.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

This chart is only a sample, and is not complete.) Categorize that core Tech Now add one more column to your chart: commodity or value. This should be a simple one page document. Figure out where you are spending your money and time Take the list above and break it into a new table.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without good leadership, everything falls apart.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. Visualize trends and patterns to make data-driven decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 12, 2014

In the United Sates, the nonprofit sector is not so different from the private sector in terms of professionalism and organizational structures. Secondly, we do not use the term “sector,” we use words such as area, arena, and field. According to the Charities Aid Foundation''s (CAF) Global Giving Index 2013, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time.

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? A new or improved facility is a lot of work and can come with increased expenses, more responsibility, and a lot of upkeep.

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