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. Today, we refer to it as the “Foundation 1000”, and it is often used to look at historical grantmaking trends. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You can identify trends with easily accessible historical data and always know where you are with real-time information. Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system. Is your chart of accounts unmanageable? Do they give you the information you need?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bbcon 2023 agenda is full of great sessions for finance professionals serving nonprofits, schools, foundations, healthcare, and cultural organizations, from creating better systems to extending what you currently do with Blackbaud’s fund accounting software, Financial Edge NXT.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. For data connections and user access, it features a fail-safe security system based on authentication and authorization mechanisms. Trend Lines & Predictive Analysis.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

These ideas from a recent association trends study can help you prepare your organization for whatever comes next. While I don’t have a crystal ball, I do have some association trends data that can help. Here are five ideas from the association trends study to help you prepare your association for 2022 and beyond: 1.

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Associations Studies Trend Data 78

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We knew that there was information in one part of the system that could be very useful for another team. Our Connected Experience Because we chose Blackbaud’s Total School Solution , I can now toggle back and forth from a family record in our student information system to that same family in our fundraising software.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Healthcare Data Silos Healthcare data silos, or divisions within the healthcare data system, are due to hundreds of applications running at once. Understand individual patient health within the context of population health trends. Manage and streamline patient outreach efforts. Keep sensitive financial records safe.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: To avoid this mistake, organizations must develop robust systems for tracking and reporting on restricted versus unrestricted funds. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. or the style, size, color, and other categories we use to find what we’re looking for when online shopping.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit. You can identify trends with easily accessible historical data and always know where you are with real-time information. Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system. Do they give you the information you need?

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Kindful

APRIL 15, 2021

Salesforce is a complex cloud-based CRM program that allows users from various departments within a company to interact with each other and work “as one” within the system, essentially bringing a global business together under one virtual roof. This CRM system manages data, not customer experiences.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit. You can identify trends with easily accessible historical data and always know where you are with real-time information. Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system. Do they give you the information you need?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). On the grantmaker side, it allows you to do a systems analysis to see how your funding investment fits into the sector. Select details for more grant detail.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

T he Community Brands Association Trends Study found 5 7 % of association members are more likely to attend i n-person events if their friend or co-worker plans on attending. Do so, by adding several types of content to your learning management system (LMS). Invite non-members to your events. Offer non-member pricing for training.?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act to completely overhaul the system. National College Attainment Network FSA’s Lookup Charts Better FAFSA FAQ’s At the end of the day, school administrators, families, and students all want the same thing—access to education. In 2020, the U.S.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Following this trend, Meta has introduced Meta Verified. per month on the website.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

It makes changing over from older Microsoft Office–based systems to the newer online services more manageable and easy to maintain. Nonprofit in a Box: How Murtis Taylor Human Services System Brings Help Right into Homes. Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart. For more information, see.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

With a good constituent relationship management system (CRM), you can personalize your volunteer outreach, show your appreciation, and understand what it takes to engage someone with your organization. They spend a lot of time transferring that data between systems, which means they’re only able to collect the bare minimum.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Look at each supporter’s giving history and identify trends. You should also see specific trends in these numbers over time.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

Keeping track of your data over time helps you identify trends in user behavior and make informed decisions about how to optimize your analytics strategies. This allows you to automate the process of exporting data and can be useful if you need to export large amounts of data or if you want to integrate your analytics data with other systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. Digital Inspiration found this terrific visual field guide to selecting the right chart or graph or graph format. It's nifty too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You have data on your grantees flowing into your grant management system (GMS) through applications and their updates. Newsletters with industry trends hit your inbox almost every day. Your grants management system has a variety of ways to visualize the information, but what is the best format for the insight you are looking for?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

The dashboards on your grant management system give you a similar snapshot of your grantmaking programs. What Are Dashboards in Your Grant Management System? The dashboards act as the welcome screen in your grant management system. You can include links to other parts of your system or outside of the software.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Why it’s important: By tracking donor level moves, you’ll be able to see the trends of movement between gift amounts and giving levels amongst donors. When you see an upward movement trend of your constituents, then you can confirm that the efforts were effective. Then set up a system to report on this engagement information.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Why you should attend: This session will help you best chart out your social media strategy specifically to help drive donor engagement. What if we told you that there are easy systems and processes that can help you launch or expand an individual giving program for effective and easy income?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul.

Interaction 76

Interaction Houston Open Source Austin 76

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , retention rates for new donors and donors who give small gifts are some of the most important trends for nonprofits to prioritize during campaigns both during year-end and in the next year. Click here to see a larger version of this graph. This correlates with an encouraging 39.5%

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

With your help, we’ve amassed a wealth of current information on demand for services, trends in government support, board participation, and financial health. The chart below highlights that upward trend. The chart below highlights that upward trend. What are the big picture conversations about? Like this article?

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Use statistics and trends to illustrate elements of your campaign like: Your organization’s need for increased capacity. Breaking your prospecting goals down into a gift range chart is an effective way to keep your efforts focused from the very beginning of the quiet phase. Use data to strengthen your message. donor research tools.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. But somehow, we as a sector are expected to get our solutions right the very first time.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Your database system should allow you to build a profile for your top segments. Past behavior is the best metric or predictor for future actions and behavior, so you should be tracking this in your database system of choice. If you are just getting started in such efforts, don’t worry…the trends will expose themselves over time.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Blackbaud's Nonprofit Social Media Primer (PDF) was our most popular link of the year, followed closely by the James Irving Foundation's " Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector " (PDF). The report we did with Idealware on Donor Management Systems proved very popular, as well. Proof that Roombas work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Educating the Board of Directors and Reviewing Internal Policies (internal): By reviewing internal policies to make sure they are up-to-date with societal trends, the organization can be sure they accurately reflect their work in the current landscape of social issues.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

Functioning - we keep the lights on; we have basic systems in place to meet immediate needs. The above chart represents the responses from survey participants. leadership makes technology decisions based on efficiencies, with little-to-no input from staff/consultant. What Do the Results Tell Us About Tech Adoption at Nonprofits? “We

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