Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Simply use an item donation form on your website to collect donor information, utilize online ticketing for guest information, track sponsorship benefits, and simultaneously assign attendees to tables using easy-to-use seating features! Once you start tracking data in Greater Giving, you can pull on that data in every following year.

Software 97

Software Team Fundraising Registration 97

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of just asking for information, make sure everyone is aware of why you are applying for a grant, what the budget restraints are, and the process for tracking spend. And yet, tracking and managing restricted funding and grants is not something for-profit businesses have to do. Is your chart of accounts unmanageable?

Foundation 88

Foundation Build Grant Fund 88

sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Fund accounting software provides government agencies with the organization they need to track hundreds of funds while also establishing the internal controls and transparency required when stewarding constituent money. Fund accounting software is an accounting system designed to make managing restricted funds streamlined and easy to track.

Government 75

Government Fund Software Grant 75

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. Do they give you the information you need? Make adjustments based on your goals for the new year.

Foundation 85

Foundation Build Fund Review 85

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

Data 105

Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 105

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Track your own data. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . After tracking your actions, track your donors’ resulting behavior.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 125

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Track your major donor interactions. Make your reports more engaging with videos, photos, and interactive infographics, such as maps or charts showing changes over time. You can also send personalized surveys to major donors to get these questions answered. Use your CRM to note every interaction you have with major donors.

Relationship 52

Relationship Donor Build Tips 52

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. This nonprofit strategic planning model helps organizations get back on track if they have strayed from the path to success. Decide how to address each of those elements to get your organization back on track.

Examples 120

Examples Guide Model Los Angeles 120

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?

Database 70

Database Track Org Exercise 70

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.

Train 52

Train Training 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.

Train 52

Train Training Strategy Skills 52

Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. It’s contributed to a broader picture of philanthropic giving by including more—and more recent and in-depth—data.

Grant 98

Grant Data Pledge Analysis 98

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.

Report 56

Report Data Tools Stats 56

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Provide the appropriate tools : Find a budging tool that works for your organization, including opportunities to group programs together by impact area and clear reporting features to help you stay on track. Break out information and use charts to visualize bigger picture concepts, such as changes in spending categories over time.

Process 95

Process Create Stream Review 95

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.

Train 52

Train Training Strategy Skills 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. Do they give you the information you need? Make adjustments based on your goals for the new year.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Because this information is publically available, supporters can use your nonprofit’s annual Form 990 to track your financial transparency. They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Technically, Form 990 is the only required annual report for nonprofits. Keep donors engaged.

Template 83

Template Rhode Island Report Guide 83

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. It's powerful workflows are meant to help nonprofit fundraisers ditch spreadsheets once and for all, and track major gifts like never before. #7. Track ROI of a given ad campaign over time, and pull custom, robust reports to measure success. #16.

Advocacy 88

Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Donor management software enables you to organize your donor information, track gifts, and strengthen your donor engagement. The features of GoFundMe’s nonprofit software include: Easy sharing Donation tracking Leadership board Fundraising photos Pricing GoFundMe charges a processing fee of 2.2% + $0.30 per donation.

Software 98

Software Effective Nonprofit Collaboration 98

Byte Technology

JUNE 22, 2015

over sound bites and pictures. But the reasons behind stressing visuals in marketing strategies are obvious when one considers that most of the platforms used for communications today have a strong analytical function: essentially, it’s easy to track what’s working and what isn’t in terms of a marketing strategy. Infographics.

Profit 100

Profit Web Strategy NPO 100

Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? Understand What You Want to Track.

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Social Media Track Media Tools 70

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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Tools Chart Grant PowerPoint 43

Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you own a dog kennel, you could integrate your website with Gingr’s dog boarding software to allow customers to conveniently make reservations and payments, sign forms, and see pictures of their pets while they stay with you. These measurements should align with your campaign’s goals.

Map 52

Map Digital Business Marketing 52

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose. Often, the P&L is compared to the organization’s budget and/or the P&L of the previous period so performance can be tracked. . Think of this in terms of a pie chart, not a donor list.

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Team Nonprofit Profit Fund 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. If you took a high school or college course in statistics, you’re on the right track. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Pivot tables will change your life.

Data 139

Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit. The purpose of this chart is to help you see how many gifts at each level you will need to hit your goal. Don’t despair.

Campaign 70

Campaign Build Pledge Phase 70

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Teen 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Track the Entire Funnel.

ROI 104

ROI Social Media Media Social 104

Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If not using an automated or mobile bidding platform: Tracking sales at the event and entering them into event software or other database. Special roles for tracking item donations, making bid sheets or designing and displaying auction packages. Tracking sponsorships throughout the solicitation process, from lead to completion.

Roles 40

Roles Fundraising Sponsor Registration 40

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

Benefit 36

Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Ross says being focused is very important because the more you track, the more time it takes. She says, “We track social reach, engagement and track keywords and mentions. (One place to look).

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Measure Social Media Tools Media 118

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? Get as specific as possible.

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Tech Develop Strategy Guide 42

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. Why is this important?

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tracking approximately $11 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. time to get a fuller picture of charitable giving in the United States. Please visit The Blackbaud Index for more information and interactive charts.

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Blackbaud Chart Trend United States 33

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. Tracking how many of your volunteers participate by posting to the blog and commenting on each other’s posts + other online mentions + increase in inquiries and volunteers, etc.

ROI 135

ROI Case Study Metrics Student 135

Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. See the chart of sessions. George Thomas, of GSA and now OMB, about the technical architecture they are designing for tracking/reporting on the disbursement of the stimulus monies ( picture ). Picture courtesy of stereogab. More followup thoughts later. Technorati Tag: TCamp09.

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DC Aggregator Technorati Unconference 50

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . If you could only track one metric annually to monitor your fundraising, it should be donor retention. The only thing keeping you from obtaining a clearer picture of your organization’s fundraising is a bit of time and some elbow grease. Donor Attrition Rate

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87