The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

By Marie Webb We all woke up one morning to the possibility of chatting with our computers to access information, and generative AI suddenly seemed to be everywhere, ushering in a transformative experience. First communicate the intended structure, tone, and audience of the item you’re producing. AI learns from your feedback.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit financial management also includes the structures and workflows that enable your finance team to operate efficiently and effectively. This will help you make informed decisions and optimize your resource allocation. Provide clear reporting: Different funders may have different expectations and formats for reporting.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. Improved decision-making: Nonprofits can make more informed and data-driven decisions with a data warehouse.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Because no one wants board members approving budgets that they don’t fully understand or making decisions to expand staff when they aren’t clear if the budget can withstand additional salaries and benefits or voting on fundraising approaches when they don’t understand cost/benefit analysis. Here’s how you can build that board. It’s not sexy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Information flows. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Strengthen Transparency and Communication: Documenting moves management within your donor database and reviewing the plans regularly can strengthen transparency and communication with fundraising staff. The moves management structure may vary depending on your goals and priorities. Getting Started.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

The Analysis Exchange is a first-of-its-kind effort to freely provide analytical insights to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end. What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore how to determine what information to retain and the best way to store it. All existing UA data remains accessible, but organizations will lose access to that information on July 1, 2024. By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2022

We’ll review the following topics: . Audits require deep financial analysis and when supporters understand that this took place, they’ll also recognize that your nonprofit takes accounting practices seriously. Reviewed large-scale expenses and ensured they’re recorded according to your capitalization policy. . Write an RFP.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Candid reviewed these organizations and found that 38,049 organizations—or 84% of 501(c)(5)s—are unions. [1]. Unions can vary dramatically in size (partially due to the local vs. national structure we explained last week). Most unions are fairly small, and detailed financial information is often not available for these organizations.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

We’ve put together this guide to help you make an informed decision. Understanding Your Needs and Goals Identifying Your Organization’s Specific Requirements Before implementing any specific structural changes, you must look into what your organization needs.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

We’ve put together this guide to help you make an informed decision. Understanding Your Needs and Goals Identifying Your Organization’s Specific Requirements Before implementing any specific structural changes, you must look into what your organization needs.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Analysis of territory allocation and account assignment plan.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

In this guide, we will uncover all the aspects of LMS pricing to help you make an informed decision about your investment. Contract Terms and Renewal Pricing: Make sure you carefully review and understand the potential price adjustments that may occur when it’s time to renew your agreement. Stay tuned!

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

In this guide, we will uncover all the aspects of LMS pricing to help you make an informed decision about your investment. Contract Terms and Renewal Pricing: Make sure you carefully review and understand the potential price adjustments that may occur when it’s time to renew your agreement. Stay tuned!

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Your communities expect “anytime, everywhere” access to the programs, services, and information we provided as well as multi-channel engagement options—twice as fast as they did just a few years ago. For nonprofit CFOs, this is a clarion call to review business processes and evaluate their existing tech stack.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. In this session, we’ll discuss what inclusive research looks like and give you concrete tips for how you can ethically structure your research to ensure you’re designing impactful solutions for your audiences.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

To host successful peer-to-peer campaigns, you need an online giving platform that allows supporters to personalize their fundraising pages with information about their connections to your mission. Information about donors’ engagement levels and giving potential. Donor profiles. Customized donor reports. Donation page design.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned Giving Is Accessible to All Planned giving flips the script on the traditional donation structure because it does not disrupt a supporter’s current cash flow. Once there is enough awareness of the program, launch a planned giving committee to review planned giving processes and fundraising policies.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

Issues more deeply rooted in organizational structure, like outdated processes or chronically low member engagement, emerge as barriers to reaching your organization’s goals. Are you collecting only essential information that you know you’ll use later? Are you communicating benefits in a way your potential members see value?

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Gyrus

JANUARY 17, 2024

Identify Training Needs Identifying specific training needs involves skill gap analysis, performance reviews, and regular feedback sessions. It results in a more cohesive and effective organizational structure. Engaging team members in open communication helps pinpoint individual and collective areas for improvement.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 17, 2024

Identify Training Needs Identifying specific training needs involves skill gap analysis, performance reviews, and regular feedback sessions. It results in a more cohesive and effective organizational structure. Engaging team members in open communication helps pinpoint individual and collective areas for improvement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. This kind of analysis fascinates me, and I think it can really help others understand what's really going on in the Arizona nonprofit sector. In the field of social network analysis, these are called "structural holes."

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For instance, your major gift officer may use an app to look up more information about major prospects prior to initial meetings. but now, you can take all that information on the go with Bloomerang’s mobile fundraising app ! They offer a donor portal that makes it easy for donors to self-serve their information updates.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Information Architecture. User Research.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

So many of us made ambitious plans for growth last year, only to be forced to throw those out the window for a global health crisis we never factored in as a threat on our SWOT analysis. The “how” – program models, operational processes, staffing structures – can shift. Look to skilled volunteerism as a powerful resource.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you evaluate the types of content that will best engage your association’s members, manage subject matter experts to ensure that content is well-informed, and author those courses after doing so. And, they can put reports in place that your team can use for analysis going forward to continue improving.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing. Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive. The format is straightforward and informative. They also provide great case studies that are applicable to other nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

For network systems, a dashboard brings together configuration and threat information from all managed and unmanaged endpoints and servers. The network application integrates with Active Directory to leverage the organization's existing Windows domain structure and group policies. Large and Small. Remote access (networks).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

One great way is to guide your staff through new information using a virtual training course. When you set predefined learning goals, your staff members won’t be left to fend for themselves to find the information on their own. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” Improved Staff Retention Rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. Evaluation should also include your personal reflection.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The report was primarily informed by two sources: Financial data showing trends from the field.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Review your candidates. Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

For the metrics, I don’t just look at numbers, I also do an analysis of engagement around content – as well as keep a running list of what topics/formats worked pretty well. Since I use an idea dashboard to develop my content — it includes links, general structure for the blog post, format, etc.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Once you understand and evaluate various key metrics and corresponding benchmarks, you can use your analysis as a blueprint to think strategically about how to improve your event’s future fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Where do they get the information?    What has greater impact on sales or reviews on Amazon?    Structured product reviews written by people who the company didn't know - It's no longer about reaching eyeballs.  How do you know what tactic caused the sale?    Social media? 

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