Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools. Secret #10.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Name a point of contact who sees the big picture. They’ll work together to ensure the system is configured to automate board reporting and UDS data so that you have more free time for other priorities. The most important document to have on hand is a trial balance report—with 36 months of history—from your legacy system.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This is why nonprofit impact reporting is so important. Whether you’re keeping donors updated, presenting a case to internal stakeholders or creating an annual report design that speaks to stakeholders, demonstrating impact plays a key role in nonprofit communications. . Use charts to present statistics and financial figures.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If all your Ts aren’t crossed and your Is aren’t dotted on your grant reporting, your chances of repeat funding from that entity are low. When your accounting system is not built to handle restricted funding , each report can feel like a fire drill. It’s not just the end-of-grant reporting that can cause problems.

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

Provide the same reports each meeting, but with timely highlights, callouts, and summary statements to focus on what board members need to know right now. Depending on how often your board meets, you may include snapshots pertinent to this meeting while linking to full yearly reports. Be Consistent With repetition comes understanding.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Council on Foundations’ 2023 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report Key Findings (for which Candid provided data analysis) offer a broad picture: Median full-time staff salaries for select roles rose 5.49% between 2022 and 2023, i as reported by a non-representative panel of 514 grantmaking organizations.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. You’ll get a look at the roadmap for where we’re going, our strategic vision, and the long-term big picture for Financial Edge NXT. They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Here are some key tools your nonprofit should have to meet your reporting needs: Customizable reports that allow you to get roll up data and detailed data. Depending on your CRM, you might have fully customizable reports where you build them from scratch or canned reports with all the columns and form fields ready for you to run.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It may be time to look for a purpose-built fund accounting system when you begin managing a variety of different funds and restrictions, when you have trouble getting a financial picture of your entire organization, or when you need to expand your internal controls past the functionality of your current system. Flexible chart of accounts.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. But they often come with many strings attached—such as detailed reporting requirements. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Tried to create a report and couldn't find a chart or graph that would clearly illustrate your point? Picture a spreadsheet with a long list of individual donations. But what about bar charts?

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

I’ll share what I’ve learned from the big-picture analytics, insights from my deep dive into content, and how they inform my approach to our social media plan (which you’re welcome to borrow for your nonprofit). The top-level analytics The first thing I do is look at the big picture. You also love a nice chart.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This might involve sending donors a personalized thank-you video, sending a quarterly personalized impact report, engaging with donors on social media, or inviting them to join a feedback committee to provide insight into the giving experience from the donor perspective. Report on donors’ impact. Incorporate multimedia elements.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. This will give you the full picture of how your organization handles data. That’s okay!

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Social media analytics report Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. They should answer questions the staff has about performance, give a 30k foot view of what happened, and generate insights about what’s working in a report. With the right oversight, interns can help categorize these files.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2022

Alt text should describe an image in enough detail to paint a mental picture of what’s represented in the photo without overwhelming people with unimportant information. However, when text is included as part of the image, as in a chart or infographic, remember that image-based text isn’t readable. Write Descriptively and Succinctly.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

How can they get the rest of the team to focus and understand the critical financial reports their nonprofit is generating? Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports. Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging. Close the books and issue financial reports each month.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Whether you are part of a housing authority or a parks and recreation department, you need to quickly differentiate revenue from fees for a specific program and grants that require detailed reporting. You can track and report income and expenses by program or department without a complex account structure.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? Maybe you want to make internal processes, such as reporting, easier for your team.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Are you writing up your own guest lists, table seating charts, or auction item sales sheets? Save time creating reports and keeping up with compliance. Once you’ve begun tracking your donor data in Greater Giving, it’s a cinch to generate a report and find out what you need to know ! Well, you don’t need to anymore!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., Including data-driven storytelling in impact reports is a powerful way to retain current donors and inspire them to increase donations. or combined with photos of the communities you serve.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Do you need to pull reports and CSV files from several different systems to get a holistic view of your income streams and expenses? It’s also helpful to identify your reporting capabilities so you know how you want to present the budget when it’s complete. Ensure the budget is presentable : You have worked hard on the budget.

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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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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. Read More ».

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

While it is important to have your data set be as complete as possible to give you a full picture of your impact, don’t pressure your grantee organizations. Make sure you provide the appropriate amount of context to the researchers and reporters who are combing through your tax forms, or they might come to the wrong conclusion.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Create Personalized Reports and Dashboards Having a way to quickly and clearly see your financial numbers helps you make better data-driven decisions.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Social media analytics report Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. They should answer questions the staff has about performance, give a 30k foot view of what happened, and generate insights about what’s working in a report. With the right oversight, interns can help categorize these files.

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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. I didn’t have context for what the numbers meant and whether they were reporting good or bad results. They can, however, picture one Julia.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 22, 2015

over sound bites and pictures. Indeed, more than 63 percent of the whitepaper’s surveyed groups report increasing their use of images to tell their stories of success, need, appeal etc. In much the same way videos can send a message loud and clear, so to can the proper still images. Infographics.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

Our executive vice president, Jacob Harold, wrote about three sourcing methods we use to collect grants data—IRS filings, direct reporting, and web scraping—on the Candid blog.) As the charts below illustrate, we’re far from having comprehensive data for 2019, let alone 2020. A status update on filings.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. You should also remind donors to keep the bigger picture in mind. Make it visual. Explain the benefits of overhead.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Picture yourself steering a ship through a relentless storm; that’s what navigating your business during a recession feels like. By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . Track your own data. How many donors do you have? . Above that average?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Pull detailed, customizable reports. Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. Choose your data points, and use Report Builder to easily arrange and interpret your data. #6. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16.

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