sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

You can track and report income and expenses by program or department without a complex account structure. Because fund accounting systems have intuitive project and grant tracking, you don’t have to waste time formatting charts and graphs. With fund accounting software, you can see the status of each fund quickly and easily.

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Government Fund Software Grant 73

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Below we’ll explore four things to consider in nonprofit storytelling: The narrative structure The content The medium The donor experience Managing all of the moving pieces of your nonprofit can be tough; sharing your authentic story as a change-maker doesn’t have to be. We are constantly seeking purpose and significance in the world.

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Storytelling Impact Arts Story 84

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” If you’re meeting in person, try to draw simple pictures. Even using charts and graphs can help a lot. Even a verbal picture.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 99

Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Custom photo stock This is a fun excuse for an intern to run around the office and any physical sites to take good pictures of work in action. Update and benchmark the organization chart It’s amazing how quickly this can fall out of date. Be sure to have a backup of your files when giving an intern the ability to modify.

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International Program Ideas Data 52

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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Training Train Strategy Skills 52

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.

Training 52

Training Train Strategy Skills 52

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.

Training 52

Training Train Strategy Skills 52

Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. Often, this means settling for (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint, but no more!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Be ready to paint the picture of where you’re going and then motivate folks to join you for the journey. Explain what needs to be done and how it fits into the big picture. A leader who can’t manage their time is distracted and disorganized, always working on things at the last minute. Leading people. There’s too much to do.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. But the board has only generally expressed enthusiasm for the campaign’s big-picture purpose on paper.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Highlight key performance indicators.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As you look ahead to your organization’s new year of growth and engagement, tech strategy updates should definitely be a part of the picture. Without a clear view of the bigger picture, you can easily find yourself swamped with ineffective, outdated, or redundant tools. Why would a nonprofit create one?

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Tech Develop Strategy Guide 42

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? A new or improved facility is a lot of work and can come with increased expenses, more responsibility, and a lot of upkeep.

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Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

define who is responsible for leading, executing, and providing feedback on each workstream (a well-executed RACI chart is great for this!). In instances where the structure of your company or organization does necessitate getting input from a whole variety of stakeholders, it’s helpful for someone on your team (as outlined in the RACI!)

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Tips Review Collaboration Team 52

Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are just some of this committee’s (many) jobs and our suggestions for committee structure: Collecting all guest names and contact information. Assigning guests to tables and creating a seating chart. Creating media packages—which typically include video, pictures, a press release, and more to provide to news and radio outlets.

Roles 40

Roles Fundraising Sponsor Registration 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. The internet is structured around sites that have unique URL addresses. Of course as with any methodology, this presents a limited picture. Another list summarizes the number of links.

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Use a Consent Agenda A consent agenda gives you a way of structuring your meeting so that you can handle the routine things quickly, leaving more time for important conversations. Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. So, what SHOULD you be talking about?

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

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. Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The most appealing presentations don’t just have good grammar and nice pictures; they are beautifully designed. Just as with a well-written essay, a thoughtful structure and a polished style will help your ideas shine through. DO include bar charts, pie charts, and diagrams if they support your points. 3) First slide.

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Design Slides Tips Online 290

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. I'm hoping that in 2009, we can overcome cultural, funding, and leadership barriers to create a non-profit sector that charts its own course toward open standards, open data and collaborative innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Breaking up into small tables worked – I saw table after table of people leaning in, standing up, gathered around flip charts. We could have refined the structure of the two days. In the big picture, if people see results from social media, they’ll keep engaging, and if they don’t see results, they shouldn’t feel bad about stopping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ".

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Social Network Analysis America Network 95

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. In that exhibition, visitors could vote for paintings to move them up in a weekly "top 40" ranking chart. nothing happens.

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Participatory Museum YouTube Rate 35

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so they had an Excel chart that was presented quarterly. That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. And you have to think of the bigger picture as the executive director. And so you have to set the tone.

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Roles Resource Develop Video 122

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. And then as I always talk to my clients about, you really need to paint a picture as to why are you uniquely positioned to meet that need?

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Campaign Video Project Alabama 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

We also did media outreach and placed a couple member stories, interviews and opeds by our ExecDir, and shared several pictures from UpWorthy. Here’s a round up of what they learned. (1) 1) Be Flexible and Keep It Simple. 2) Use Multiple Channels and Shape Content for each Channel. ” What’s the value?

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