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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to learn more about what particular chart format is better suited to visualize a particular comparison or insight from social media data. Time Series Comparisons. The challenge is figuring out how many trend lines you can show before your chart looks like a bowl of pasta. More in bar charts in excel.

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Member Round Up: Game of Thrones and emergency response, diversity data, and an app to help connect youth with summer meals!

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Idealist Consulting has a new, free Email Service Providers Comparison Report , an in-depth comparison of 13 of the most common platforms. This day-long conference is devoted to the latest technology trends and resources for nonprofits, and features NTEN Member, Beth Kanter , as the keynote speaker.

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Nonprofit Worst Practices – How Nonprofits Have Dealt With Risk

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Trustees were not made fully aware of important long-term trends in financial performance or the operating environment. Important trends were masked by an exclusive focus on annual budgets, and year-to-date and year-over-year “rearview mirror” comparisons. Organizations were surprised by crises that could have been foreseen.

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5 Good Nonprofit Infographics

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All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends. All Rights Reserved

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

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Analyze the numbers for them and summarize trends with a brief narrative or visual, dashboard-style presentation. Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. Your audience is busy and will appreciate reports that save them time.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

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These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. I wasn't surprised that the worst trends had much more pick up than best. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Technology was the number one worst trend in museums in people's comments.

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