Mapping Your Data Strategy Cannot Wait
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 13, 2023
The risks of putting it off are too significant: you lose funding due to an inability to meet reporting requirements.
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Cloud 4 Good
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). While there are standard reports built in Raiser’s Edge, if you need to create custom and specialized reports, you would have previously had to use Crystal Reports for Blackbaud.
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Whole Whale
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI).
Neon CRM
JUNE 16, 2023
Ask, thank, report, and repeat—it’s a simple but powerful way to manage your relationships. While there are tons of ways that your nonprofit can engage donors, following the basic steps of the donor engagement cycle—ask, thank, report and repeat—will forge a clear path that the rest of your stewardship strategy can follow.
Forum One
AUGUST 16, 2023
Though annual reports can come at any time, a key component of finishing the calendar year off strong is to ensure that you are reporting on what you’ve achieved and identifying where there is room to grow. Often, this is a much more in-depth and detailed report that you use to compare against various KPI targets.
VisionLink
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Map illustrates damage reports as hurricane hits North Carolina. 5, 2015— VisionLink , a community inspired software and consulting company, has developed a free, shareable, real-time, geo-tagged map depicting actual damage reports produced by Hurricane Joaquin. BOULDER, Colo. —
VisionLink
JANUARY 29, 2015
Due to the potentially historic damage of this storm, VisionLink successfully created a unique geo-tagged map to chart--in real-time--the damage reports from those in the storm''s path. To see and learn how to share the map, please visit: www.WinterStormMap.com Who is talking about VisionLink''s Winter Storm Map?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2020
As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. While the benefits and potential is great, there are also challenges as we outlined in our report. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps.
Byte Technology
JUNE 30, 2015
And with this data in hand, said developers and administrators can easily take the strategic opportunities heat mapping provides to transform their designs, flows and layout for optimal usage. Heat mapping answers many questions other analytical tools do not: Are your visitors distracted by too many choices?
VisionLink
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
This simple, yet powerful tool allows affected households to self-report damage from their smartphone or tablet in less than three minutes. To help, Avancera Partners has activated Visionlink's public-facing Damage Assessment tool for emergency managers and non-profit relief agencies preparing to respond.
Qgiv
AUGUST 29, 2023
One intention behind publishing the Sustainable Giving Report was to find data, trends, and solutions to some of the biggest challenges that fundraisers encounter today, including the Great Resignation, the economy impacting philanthropy, and more! Another area the Sustainable Giving Report dove into was Building Streams of Revenue.
Candid
JUNE 15, 2022
We will be spending $9M of your grant over three years to build a state-of-the-art technology platform that brings together key features of our flagship products such as Foundation Directory, GuideStar/Charity Check, Seals of Transparency, 990 Finder, Philanthropy News Digest, Candid Learning, Foundation Maps, and more.
sgEngage
APRIL 17, 2024
Educational institutions, particularly colleges and universities, have long employed Institutional Researchers (IRs) to collect, analyze, and report on data that informs decision-making and planning for the school. Next, there are some preliminary steps you—or your data guru—can take: Dedicate time to mapping your data flow.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 17, 2021
Map out your asset portfolio and determine how many of your partners are receiving the full value of what you can offer to their partnership. 3) Reporting Is Everything! Perhaps one of the most important tactics of a stewardship strategy is reporting. Reporting doesn’t have to be extensive, just deliberate.
sgEngage
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
They’ll work together to ensure the system is configured to automate board reporting and UDS data so that you have more free time for other priorities. The most important document to have on hand is a trial balance report—with 36 months of history—from your legacy system. Start now gathering the information you will need.
Byte Technology
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Those written goals will serve as an overview map for you and your leadership team. You should have monthly reporting for ongoing stats that lead direction, but a Strategic Marketing Plan will help you create small manageable goals that correspond to an overall goal (more customers). Now you see your ROI and who your customer is.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 24, 2009
In June 2009, Nielsen reported nearly 21 million unique visitors to Twitter.com. Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Try your TPS.( read more ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 9, 2020
According to the 2019 Giving USA Report , American donors gave an estimated $427.71 Foundation Maps. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada. billion going overseas.
EveryAction
MARCH 8, 2023
Review your data tables, queries, reports, and exports. Create a list of all queries, reports, exports, and dashboards that your organization uses so that they can be created in the new system as appropriate. Development —this phase includes configuration of the new system, including data mapping and web development.
sgEngage
JANUARY 17, 2024
Document your reporting requirements, both internal to your leadership and board as well as what reports you require from your grantees. What reports do you pull regularly? Is there a report you’d like to see but don’t have the capability? It never hurts to get a little outside feedback on your processes.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 16, 2010
Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Integrate Strategy Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan. It’s easy for employees to be “too busy” to take on a complex new partnership.
NTEN
AUGUST 24, 2012
We know everyone loves free tools, so we definitely wanted to mention The Chronicle of Philanthropy 's great interactive charitable giving map , released as part of their study on charitable giving in America. Use the map to find out how generous your state, city, and even your neighbood are or read the whole report.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Here's what I found, and I'll show you the steps I took in Tableau Desktop , available at TechSoup, to make the following map. As with many data sets, SF OpenData maps the data by default, which allows you to quickly view the data if you don't need to do further analysis or layering. Gathering the Data. What the Data Shows.
Judi Sohn
APRIL 15, 2013
You can filter reports in ways that Salesforce standard views/reports can’t touch. While Salesforce reports have improved a great deal in the last year or so, many organizations have difficulty with the concept of report types. Copy/paste in from your spreadsheet, map the columns and go.
Greater Giving
JANUARY 11, 2024
Strategic Fundraising Calendar: Mapping Out a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit In the dynamic world of nonprofit fundraising, success often hinges on meticulous planning and execution. By strategically mapping out your year, you can harness the power of timing, engagement, and donor relationships.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
That's one of the questions we set out to answer as part of the 2017 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. The results are clear: Nonprofits report that their communications effectiveness is closely tied to the adoption and use of marketing technologies. Using a Website Content Management System. spanhidden.
Candid
APRIL 13, 2021
According to the Public Library Association, 93 percent of public libraries report leaving Wi-Fi on when buildings were closed to the public. Candid created this grant-mapping platform with generous support from the Knight Foundation and continues to offer it as a free resource with funding from the Tocker Foundation.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Content Mapping. >> Presentation. YOU can do it! Step 2: Goals.
Candid
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. After the uprisings in response to George Floyd’s murder, Candid relaunched our special issue site on funding for racial equity and added features including a searchable mapping tool. and add them to the racial equity funding map.
NonProfit Hub
MARCH 11, 2016
According to the recent Nonprofit Finance Fund State of the Sector survey, “Forty-two percent of organizations reported that they do not currently have the right mix of financial resources to thrive over the next three years.”. Intro to the Matrix Map. The map gives them a combined look so they can make better decisions.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 24, 2010
The people at AidData (a program of Development Gateway ) have teamed up with the World Bank Institute to complete the first stage of a groundbreaking geocoding project (Mapping for Results Initiative). It is also hoped that more donors will provide information and support the project in the future. read more.
Amy Sample Ward
AUGUST 11, 2011
I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. Below is a full report from topics covered on the Town Hall call and questions raised from participants. After a year of work, the Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits report is here!
sgEngage
AUGUST 9, 2023
In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Then map out your technology and data ecosystem so you know what you use and how it connects.
Tech Soup
MAY 3, 2012
If you attended our previous webinar Explore, Report, and Share Your Data Online , you may remember that TechSoup is holding a webinar focusing on SAP's Crystal Reports. Pacific time , will focus on how SAP's Crystal Reports 2011 can provide effective reporting solutions for your organization.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Here’s a clickable map with state-specific details. In a recent study by Fidelity Charitable , 8 out of 10 donors reported that nonprofit transparency and trustworthiness are primary factors influencing their giving decisions. 2) Social Media . 3) Giving Days.
fusionSpan
MARCH 30, 2022
Dashboards and reports may be created in a mobile-friendly format. Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau. Tableau comes with a lot of pre-installed map data, including cities, postal codes, administrative borders, and so on. Provides a Mobile Version. The Ask Data Tool.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Immediately upon completing the assessment, readers receive a report providing results from the assessment and guidance about how to interpret and qualitatively confirm the accuracy. Question: How best should a business or organization leader use both the book and the Team Map?
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
To help you find areas of improvement, I pulled out my four biggest takeaways from the Blackbaud Institutes’ (BBI) Human Social Responsibility Report. This statistic-driven report calls attention to the growth of CSR programs from an employee’s perspective. Impact Reporting Supports Everything You Do.
VisionLink
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
NVOAD is deploying a new situational reporting module for some states from Visionlink, to better coordinate the activities of partner agencies. If you would like to check on currently open shelters you can visit the public view of the Shelter System at the Red Cross: Map of Open Shelters.
M+R
DECEMBER 9, 2022
This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. onetime, monthly, annual) but note that item_variant is not currently available in the report-building tools of GA4.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 31, 2018
An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements. 11% are enrolled in a monthly giving program. ?
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