Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. You should also remind donors to keep the bigger picture in mind. Make it visual. Explain the benefits of overhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Secret #8.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . It’s a realistic goal, people can picture where their money is going, and it gives them an anchor and a deadline to encourage them to make a donation. . How many donors do you have? .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Feel free to use graphs, charts, tables, timelines, and any other means to convey your thoughts in a clear and meaningful manner. To create a successful budget, make sure to include a detailed analysis of the following expenditures (where applicable): Direct costs for the project. Think of the goals section as a "project description."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts. Luckily, you can achieve a thorough analysis with these 10 key data points from either your CRM or accounting software. Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes. (One place to look).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As you look ahead to your organization’s new year of growth and engagement, tech strategy updates should definitely be a part of the picture. Without a clear view of the bigger picture, you can easily find yourself swamped with ineffective, outdated, or redundant tools. Why would a nonprofit create one?

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

Both leadership and front-line staff need to invest in basic statistical analysis training so we can ask the right questions and seek the right kinds of data before launching into solution mode or resting on our laurels. The problem is, most of its storytelling power is usurped by the Excel charts that typically imprison it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Where do you look for standard metrics?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

Marketing research done on a regular basis will allow you to make better decisions, chart changes over time, plan initiatives, and assess your success. Your data will reveal a clearer picture of your constituent or client base, which you can use to inform future decision-making.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials. Adobe Acrobat can convert Word or Excel documents into fillable forms, and the Form Tracker functionality allows you to conveniently collect data and export for further analysis.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials. Adobe Acrobat can convert Word or Excel documents into fillable forms, and the Form Tracker functionality allows you to conveniently collect data and export for further analysis.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This was the main aim of this year’s summer exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Top 40: Countdown of Worcester’s Favourite Pictures. Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on twitter including who is the top people tweeting specific trends (aka trendsetters) and a bar chart listing the hours a topic trended. I have seen many such websites that provide competitive analysis for free. Its definitely worth mentioning in this post. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2016

Whether you’re unveiling the first round of logos to your clients, walking through a data analysis with your grant funder, or even aggrandizing your work experience on that crucial face-to-face job interview, coming across as confident, prepared, and engaging is just as important as the words coming out of your mouth. So how do you do that?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. How do we turn all those spreadsheets into the pictures and maps that clearly tell our story in an instant? They've gone out of their way to ensure you can use their content to share your own opinion and analysis.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. And then as I always talk to my clients about, you really need to paint a picture as to why are you uniquely positioned to meet that need? Aaron: You know, I’ve seen org charts.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m. It can have an immediate impact on revenue!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. But was there ever any gold?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. But was there ever any gold?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth. With the ability to identify patterns, methods of control, and vulnerabilities of victims through data collection and analysis, Polaris can identify weaknesses in the human trafficking networks and make strategic interventions.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

Our methodology for how we go about all this data collection and analysis is at the bottom of this post.). The search term “white supremacy” yielded just over 8,100 articles from the 100 outlets we scanned—and we quickly found that it was a term that offered a fuller picture of the conversations happening across many institutions last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

We also did media outreach and placed a couple member stories, interviews and opeds by our ExecDir, and shared several pictures from UpWorthy. 6) Curate Visual and Other Content from Trusted Sources. Content on social channels is increasingly going visual. We continued to update with quotes from the SCOTUSBlog team.

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