Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Generally, putting this model into practice looks something like this: You and your team members go out on a retreat to unify your understanding of the organization’s big-picture goals.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Report Data Tools Stats 56

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

To learn more about how to calculate and apply your indirect cost rate to your programs and services, check out our webinar with Dr. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports. Do they give you the information you need when you need it?

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Foundation Build Fund Review 83

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Many organizations struggle with the idea of ROI and metrics when it comes to social media because so much of it feels, well, untouchable. So now, finally, we get to the metrics. By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics.

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ROI Case Study Metrics Student 135

Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” Implement procedures to asess metrics.

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Social Media Trend Storyboard Montana 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

To learn more about how to calculate and apply your indirect cost rate to your programs and services, check out our webinar with Dr. Colton Strawser, A Complete Picture: How to Calculate and Communicate Indirect Program Costs. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports. Do they give you the information you need when you need it?

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

They’ll stay involved longer and make a deeper commitment when they understand how their work impacts the big picture. When making decisions on buying supplies for their program or talking about the organization at a donor visit, they’ll think about the big picture because they actually understand it. Increased Contributions.

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Metrics Nonprofit Empowerment Picture 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

You know the old saying; a picture is worth a thousand words? According to research conducted by Social Media Today , pictures are also worth a lot of “Likes” on Facebook too. Take a look at the chart below. But can you really divorce scale of engagement from deph of individual engagement?

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. They must focus on big-picture questions. A board that is a rubber stamp drains the organization’s time and resources. trillion globally.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Going Beyond Financial Metrics and the Overhead Myth. GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work. The new profiles go well beyond the simple financial metrics that had led to the overhead myth.

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Impact Profile Charity Metrics 36

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director). But once we began to look at the bigger picture, defining success in regards to online engagement became an exciting wish list that after reviewing it seems very possible! Or, have a round of meeting to prioritize what you want to measure.

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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. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. Recommendations for Implementation. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don't just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. They do get the user started with a pre-selected set of data that already tells a story. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

And I learned a few other things: Social Media is More than Vanity Metrics. It’s about understanding the full picture of where we are and where we want to be, and charting our progress along the way. Activating change isn’t about feeling good, it’s about doing good.

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Guatemala Social Media Influence Chart 37

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don’t just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. They do get the user started with a pre-selected set of data that already tells a story. Tell Your Story, Literally!

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The best interactive data tools make it simple for users to jump into the data: They don’t just start with a blank canvas asking users to select mysterious indicators, metrics, or variables. They do get the user started with a pre-selected set of data that already tells a story. Tell Your Story, Literally!

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2011

(Be sure to remove internal traffic or take this report with a grain of salt) Length of visit & dept of visit show you more details behind the average pageviews per visit and average time on site metrics. It can be eye opening to see the complete picture beyond a simple average. Not so great when you see the complete picture.

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Analytics Google Language Picture 30

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. The impact metrics you share The stories of transformation you tell Selecting which metrics and outcomes to highlight is crucial.

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Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 101

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., Weaving impact metrics into marketing materials or new donor welcome emails is likewise an effective strategy for expanding your donor base. or combined with photos of the communities you serve.

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Storytelling Fund Data Cancer 86

Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2021

In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator , we showed how the connection between the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Education Data Architecture (EDA) provides your advancement team with both alumni data as well as giving history.

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Action Data Create Student 52

sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Make sure to build these incentives into your major gift expense budget, so you aren’t blindsided by unexpected costs and can get an accurate picture of the return on investment of your efforts. Follow up regularly with photos, charts, and thank-you notes from those who have benefited from your organization’s social good assistance.

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Gift Program Build Fundraising 85

Achieve

OCTOBER 1, 2017

It included a letter, gift form and a stapled two-page report with metrics and numerical results of their programs over the last five years. We’re talking full-color charts and graphs. But guess how many times I saw my elders reach into their wallet after seeing a chart? They can, however, picture one Julia. No narrative.

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Mail Fundraising Chart Picture 52

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

By assessing key performance indicators such as donation metrics, audience engagement, and the direct impact on your organization’s mission, you gain valuable insights into the success of your storytelling initiatives. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate.

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Storytelling Impact Arts Nonprofit 82

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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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. I pull in metrics from all over the web to get instant snapshots and create graphs that show changes over time. One place to look). Analytics Tools.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. They are attempting to get a big picture view of the impact of interventions children receive not only in school but through all programs: afterschool, college preparation, etc.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Create visuals to feature important metrics and information. Instead, break up the text with infographics, graphs and charts, images of supporters and volunteers, and other interesting graphics. Visually display information.

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Template Report Rhode Island Guide 87

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So I can picture your office or your home office. Here are the metrics. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. ” I’m a cat person, so I get cat pictures in my donation forms and in my email messages. So, yep, this is me. I’ve been doing this for a long time.

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