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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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . A big part of this is understanding and leveraging data to inform any changes they make to the donor experience.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Your Chart of Accounts/Class List Becomes Unwieldy Nonprofit accounting, and fund accounting in general, is all about tracking, managing, segmenting, and reporting on individual funds. Some of those funds come with detailed restrictions, further complicating your tracking. Think of tracking revenue like baking pizzas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

KD and I took frameworks from the book – the Data-Informed Nonprofit (Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Assessment) and 7 Steps of Measurement and then had David and Carie share how they have applied these to their organization’s measurement. David Neff said that even small nonprofits can do this and recommended framework called OGST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education. As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. This person shouldn’t be the clerical or data entry person. Determine the non-financial metrics you want to track.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Are your programs on track? They showed how a few easy customizations can put important and actionable data at your fingertips. Your dashboard is made up of different visualization options, including charts, links lists, tables, and notes that put the information you need front and center when you log in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

By Laura Quinn, Idealware Since most organizations don’t track just one type of constituent, the idea of a single database for all of them—donors, volunteers, clients, email subscribers, advocates and everyone else—is something of a holy grail. These are the people you need to track. Include them all. Might they move between them?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking to maximize the biggest season for nonprofit fundraising, now is the time to ensure your data, systems, and marketing campaigns are set up correctly, giving yourself plenty of time to test and iterate for success. Insights for clean supporter data . Convert Direct Mail to Digital. Jude’s hospital, in the demo below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

Another participant, Compass,also working on measuring their blog , shared their spreadsheet for tracking similar indicators. This inspired the team over at the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County – even though their organizations are vastly different. Slideshare how do i say it with charts from Beth Kanter.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Even though unrestricted funds don’t have mandates on how they should be spent, tracking and reporting on them is still important for both your donors and for your organization’s financial decision-making. Creating a culture of transparency starts with clear tracking by individual program, fund, or project.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When you think about your reporting goals, you’ll put your organization on track for success. What goals show your members and key stakeholders that you’re on track to fulfill your mission? Use infographics and charts to engage readers and highlight your most important information.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Pair these stories with quantitative and qualitative data that illustrates impact and fosters organizational transparency.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 16, 2024

A chart of accounts (COA) is the foundation for all financial reporting. It is a list that details your nonprofit’s financial accounts to organize your most essential financial data. When well-structured, this document can help you accurately track your income and expenses to streamline budgeting and financial reporting.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? One of the most popular available currently is Crazy Egg, a tool that allows users to create heatmaps that chart very specific elements of user interaction.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Create a Policies and Procedures Manual Once a new employee joins your team, having a comprehensive document outlining standard procedures for data entry will make that transition much easier on both the individual and the staff members training them. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2023

How to easily manage and assign seating at your fundraising event Seating charts at benefit auctions are not for the faint of heart. You don’t have to dread the seating chart with Greater Giving’s automated table seating tools. The post A New Way to Simplify Fundraising Seating Charts appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The important thing is to pick the right tool for the job — and that job is collecting data to measure progress towards a goal or objective. Social media measurement tools give you data. The problem is that data everywhere! Almost every click we take, it leaves a data trail of data that can be captured.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Let’s explore key data visualization do’s and don’ts to transform your communication and align your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Are you struggling to turn your data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story? At Tableau, we want to empower nonprofits to make a difference with their data. That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

For many non-profits, data crunching is everything. From tracking donations and expenditures, the success or failure of fund-raising events, staff protocols and effectiveness, lists of donors large and small and so much more, the organization that shirks information management does so at their own peril.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. RowFeeder fits the bill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. Well, the data is back, and we thought we’d share some of our most important findingsósuccess! We’re continuing to analyze the data, and are conducting a series of interviews to round them out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Making the case for Data Analytics being budget-neutral in Year One At most associations, it is difficult to argue that better information is not a good thing – that better understanding your current members, potential members, and the broader constituency would not benefit the organization.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. Track your own data. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . — Kevin Shulman for the Agitator-DonorVoice. Same as above.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 5, 2017

By having the ability to track your traffic by geographical locations, knowing what type of browser they’re using and even charting their screen resolutions, JavaScript and Flash support, language etc. Then you can click on the “Get Tracking ID” button and you’ll receive a tracking code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. Step 5: Define your metrics.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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