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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. Additional nuance can be added by expanding the comparison across multiple years or multiple budget versions. Develop a relationship with your audience. That sounds great, right?

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Production System: The purpose here is the non-profit’s itself, and the maps describe relationships and roles in realizing the purpose; this commonly models how the organization does its work. . The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . Take a trend-line view.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." What is your post to comment ratio?

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A Fundraiser’s Secret Weapon: Data Analytics

Connection Cafe

And we all have likely asked these same questions: How much do I really know about my donor’s relationship with my charity? The focus shifted to a new set of key performance indicators (KPIs), including: File size and donor file coverage ratios. What questions do I want to ask? Should I be doing more?