Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

The data says we should move on. Two recent reports share data about the actual role celebrity connection plays in nonprofit fundraising and both say the same thing: forget celebrities. The 2011 Millennial Donor report , the second in an annual series, focuses on engaging Millennials in fundraising.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

The best part is that you already have access to a major part of the solution – your data! That’s why it’s also important to view behavioral data alongside survey data. One of our customers uncovered this insight after digging into their data. Which reports are necessary and which ones are outdated?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To get the attention of your donors and increase their engagement, you can make your impact report come to life. Making your report web-based unlocks interactive opportunities to recap your achievements and connect with your stakeholders. To do that, it needs to live where your audience lives: online.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, social sector data has also been impacted. Staff working long hours responding to multiple crises have little time and energy for data collection and dissemination. This creates a data/crisis catch-22: While it’s important to have recent data when managing a crisis, it’s also harder to get.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

According to the 2019 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report , online giving grew 6.8% It’s also worth noting that according to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 10% of donors worldwide prefer to give directly through their bank account. per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Once again, it’s time for annual reporting! Are you ready to level up your annual report to highlight the true value of your association? Learn how to refine your annual report to reflect your staff’s hard work and your organization’s accomplishments. Make your report stand out with the right tools.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that time of year – time to create your nonprofit annual report. An annual report is a great way to give both donors and the community an overview of what your nonprofit accomplished during the year. Let’s start with the purpose of your annual report. And an annual report is a great way to do that.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Topping the charts of most-read Candid blogs of 2022: the overhead myth. An open grant report to MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett by Ann Mei Chang of Candid. The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap by Cathleen Clerkin and Anna Koob of Candid. by Sarah Willey.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 14, 2022

Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) Are you ready to nerd out on nonprofit accounting? Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) - the foundational accounting tool every nonprofit leader needs to get right for maximum financial insight and awareness. What is a Chart of Accounts? It’s just that important.

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sgEngage

MAY 19, 2023

Your financial team is experienced at doing piles of work in a short amount of time to get books closed and reports out the door while the information is still actionable. But even for professionals, the flurry of data entry can open the door to a plethora of potential errors.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. foundations in a given year (see chart below).

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

This gap is notable because IRS 990 filings are a substantial source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the U.S. At Candid, grants data from 990s flows into tools such as Foundation Directory , public dashboards that provide insights into philanthropy in different regions across the U.S., A status update on filings.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The report offers a couple of key findings: Nonprofits very much want to be able to understand their performance and are taking steps to do so. This is similar to the finding in the NTEN/Idealware study that discovered the barriers that keep nonprofits from collecting and using data: expertise, time, and money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

My personal rule in measurement is to spend 30% collecting and organizing data and 70% thinking about what it means. For me, I need to see patterns and link it back to strategy and tactics. And, there is no better way consolidate your insights by expressing them as DIY infographic.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. In case you missed our webinar, feel free to watch it here and learn how to create annual reports that rock! These elements can also increase engagement with your report when shared online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

. —– I love data as much as the next person. Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. But, there’s more to being data-informed and more to what we should demand of our data, right? Is data helpful if you aren’t using it? data nten'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results. It’s not enough to collect data, the real magic happens when applied to decision making, becoming a data-informed organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Nonprofits everywhere are struggling to get their hands on reliable, useful workplace giving data from corporate giving programs. Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? Too many sources of donor data to keep track of. The data generated by the workplace has changed.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The annual report has an empty page with the heading “Full-Year Financials.” While perhaps not as demanding as your other reporting duties, the annual report can be a chance to focus on telling an engaging financial impact story. What’s an Annual Report even for? Except for one last thing. That Variance column?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. These are also good for designing reports. (1) Try avoid fragmenting your data by having to scroll. Stare at your charts and graphs and numbers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Do your nonprofit’s financial reports speak to the full board? If your financial reports don’t go beyond numbers on a page, then they exclude almost all your leaders. . When a nonprofit’s whole financial report is just numbers straight from their accounting software, you can be sure some eyes will glaze over. 93 percent !

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

of MatrixMaxx , a leading Association Management System (AMS) that helps trade associations and professional societies manage their organizations better, have great member journeys, and be higher performing through data. These highly visual dashboard elements will give staff a new perspective on membership data and trends.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Many nonprofit professionals greet the annual reporting process with apprehension. This is because nonprofit annual reports have a bad reputation. However, you don’t need to dread the creation of your annual report! This post is designed to guide your organization through the nonprofit annual report creation process.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. There are many sites that allow you to upload data, as well as download other data, for free. The site hosts a wealth of data searchable by agency, category, topic, or geographically.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the major differences between Salesforce and BBCRM is the capability and intuitive interface of native reporting. Let’s start with native reporting. Not only is the need to utilize an auxiliary reporting tool cumbersome, but Blackbaud has also discontinued support for Crystal Reports. a relational DB, like BBCRM).

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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).

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sgEngage

MAY 3, 2024

The right technology can be like an assistant, automating tasks and putting important data at your fingertips. A fund accounting system with a segmented chart of accounts enables you to build systemic controls into each specific grant to ensure any booked financial activity is compliant with available budgets and contract restrictions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year. Get the full Millennial Donor Report. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link].

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Data hygiene projects This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. that outlines departments, titles and names.

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