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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

Both of them involved celebrities. And I couldn’t help think to myself, “oh, so all we need to do to raise funds for a great cause is get a celebrity? But, I looked at both case studies again, more deeply, and realized that both of them weren’t really about the celebrity at all. Getting Over Celebrities.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

In a preliminary statement to the complaint, the plaintiffs cite Thomas Sowell’s 1998 poem, “The Poverty Pimps’ Poem,” ( Let us celebrate the poor, Let us hawk them door to door. Let us celebrate the poor. Celebrate thugs and clowns, Give their ignorance all renown. Celebrate thugs and clowns, Give their ignorance all renown.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should You Celebrate Your Nonprofit’s Anniversary?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it makes sense to celebrate a nonprofit anniversary: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a 75 th anniversary coming up, and I really think we should do something to celebrate this milestone. I’ve long felt anniversary celebrations are for insiders, not constituents.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Success Factors: Public Engagement: The challenge was simple, fun, and encouraged user-generated content, leading to massive social media engagement and celebrity participation. Online Donations – St.

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Best of the Tableau Web: February 2021

Tableau

February was a special month, because we also launched our new Tableau Community Hub —a space dedicated to elevating and celebrating the people, programs, and inspirational work of the community. Luke Stanke, Circular Bar Charts: Why you should make them but never share them. For clicks and eyeballs, a highly stylized visual (e.g.,

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

Designing Charts and Color to Communicate Quickly How do you simplify a text- and data-heavy scorecard while still accurately and quickly conveying the complex information policy-makers seek? A high number on another metric, however, could be cause for celebration. Is that number good? How does that number compare to other states?

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Salesforce Winter ’22 Release: What You Need to Know

Cloud 4 Good

Dynamic Gauge Charts in Dashboards (Beta). For those of you who have set up dynamic dashboards to track your organization’s KPIs, you have cause for celebration with this new feature! The dynamic gauge chart is now available to use report metrics and field values to respond dynamically to the displayed business metrics.

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