Does your nonprofit track vital data -- but lack the time and resources to make sense of it? Don't worry! TechSoup Canada is here to help make your data work for you.
Join us to learn how to create a reasonable and manageable data strategy, and how to foster a culture of data-informed decision making across your entire organization.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
-harness the potential of business intelligence and Big Data
-create and implement an integrated data strategy
-overcome institutional resistance and foster a culture of data-informed decision making
-use dashboards to gain insight into a variety of data sources
There are many accounting platforms aimed at helping nonprofits achieve compliance, and QuickBooks is one of the most popular. In this presentation, Jean Elwell and Bob Wang of Legacy Advantage discuss using QuickBooks to ensure that your nonprofit is audit-proof. Join us!
Our annual series of Charity Seminars held across the region will this year focus on the various elements involved in building a sustainable charity.
The seminar programme will cover:
• Creating a vision: How to build a resilient organisation and resilient teams
• Turning a vision into a plan: What does a good plan look like and how do you obtain funding?
• Keeping the plan on track: This session will focus on key aspects of financial reporting including the different information requirements of management and trustees
• Effective trustee boards as part of building a sustainable charity
• Real relationships that provide sustainable income
• Why are you here? Achieving impact from your fundraising messages
Visualizations with Empathy: Developing Audience PersonasAmanda Makulec
Presentation from Evaluation 2016 featuring ideas for how evaluators (and other data viz designers) can use the develop of personas to segment and understand their audiences. Instead of thinking just of stakeholder groups and job titles, we approach understanding audiences by developing empathy, borrowing from human centered design.
Fundraising Intelligence: Measuring Fundraising Return on Investment and the ...fmahunik
Presented by Sally Boucher and Faön Mahunik on 04/29/2011. This presentation defines fundraising return on investment and cover the components that make up the overall income and expense lines in the budget. It also discussed the differences between efficiency and effectiveness as well as the differences in measuring ROI and CRD. Topics that are also covered include: Keys to good metrics and important metrics to measure, Prospect research’s impact on fundraising ROI, and Management metrics and tracking. You can access the webinar recording here: https://wealthengineevents.webex.com/wealthengineevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=3660437&rKey=987a1f518451b890
There are many accounting platforms aimed at helping nonprofits achieve compliance, and QuickBooks is one of the most popular. In this presentation, Jean Elwell and Bob Wang of Legacy Advantage discuss using QuickBooks to ensure that your nonprofit is audit-proof. Join us!
Our annual series of Charity Seminars held across the region will this year focus on the various elements involved in building a sustainable charity.
The seminar programme will cover:
• Creating a vision: How to build a resilient organisation and resilient teams
• Turning a vision into a plan: What does a good plan look like and how do you obtain funding?
• Keeping the plan on track: This session will focus on key aspects of financial reporting including the different information requirements of management and trustees
• Effective trustee boards as part of building a sustainable charity
• Real relationships that provide sustainable income
• Why are you here? Achieving impact from your fundraising messages
Visualizations with Empathy: Developing Audience PersonasAmanda Makulec
Presentation from Evaluation 2016 featuring ideas for how evaluators (and other data viz designers) can use the develop of personas to segment and understand their audiences. Instead of thinking just of stakeholder groups and job titles, we approach understanding audiences by developing empathy, borrowing from human centered design.
Fundraising Intelligence: Measuring Fundraising Return on Investment and the ...fmahunik
Presented by Sally Boucher and Faön Mahunik on 04/29/2011. This presentation defines fundraising return on investment and cover the components that make up the overall income and expense lines in the budget. It also discussed the differences between efficiency and effectiveness as well as the differences in measuring ROI and CRD. Topics that are also covered include: Keys to good metrics and important metrics to measure, Prospect research’s impact on fundraising ROI, and Management metrics and tracking. You can access the webinar recording here: https://wealthengineevents.webex.com/wealthengineevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=3660437&rKey=987a1f518451b890
As part of your fundraising campaigns and online engagement, you likely collect many metrics and data points. But do you take the time to reflect on this data and use it to improve for next time? In this session, we’ll discuss metrics you can collect, share each other’s best practices for data collection processes, and demo dashboard tools that will help you see the big picture.
It may be easier than ever today to collect data, but many marketers still find themselves scratching their heads when trying to decide how best to sift through it to uncover the gems. What’s often even more difficult, however, is developing reports that incite action and encourage future investment in the right strategies and optimizations – especially when findings challenge the status quo.
In this session, Ben Magnuson, Senior Data Strategist at One North, explore how to deliver reports that your stakeholders will actually care to read. Specifically, he dives into how you can shift your reporting strategy to ensure you are:
* Establishing the right baselines and goals to help you more accurately benchmark your progress towards KPIs
* Moving beyond simply showing your work to provide the right level of context around data trends that matter
* Including stakeholders in the development of metrics to prevent surrogation, or the confusion of strategic intent with the metrics meant to represent it
* Creating an influential narrative around your results that helps you overcome bias, combat conventional thought and improve decision making
Danielle Brigida, Sr. Manager of Social Strategy & Integration, National Wildlife Foundation
Twitter Handle: @Starfocus
What does your number of likes mean? How many followers does it take to be a success?
We all have these questions, but the fact is- if done well measuring how people
interact with your organization online can greatly help you determine where to allocate
resources. In this session we’ll talk about why we measure, some measurement best
practices and a few free and enterprise tools that don’t break the bank.
At #SMDayADL I presented on the topic of social media reporting, sharing tips on establishing suitable goals, aligning them to relevant metrics, and employing reporting best practices.
When it comes to design, everyone has an opinion! However, during reviews and discussions it’s those with more than an opinion that fair the best. Successful design solutions require a deep understanding of audiences, clear strategy, and good ole data.
In this session you’ll learn:
- common data sources for design,
- how to build a data-informed approach,
- what data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
HighRoad Solution Session at AUC016-Creating the Insight-Driven Content Marke...HighRoad Solution
Outline the approach undertaken by the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, American Payroll Association & the American Dental Association in transforming their email program by moving to an insight-first driven model.
Presented by Daniel Burstein, Rebecca Strally, and Diana Sindicich of MECLABS.
This content was originally developed for Dr. Goel's Social Media Class (Graduate level) at the University of North Florida. Learn how to use data to leverage your social media presence using a tested methodology and strategy.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
Reporting on individual metrics in isolation will only get you so far. Data-driven decision making requires deeper analysis that includes additional context. This context often comes from a variety of data sources, many of which are siloed. Learn about the importance of data context, as well as specific steps on how to provide context across a variety of data sources.
In response to COVID-19, Together Project's staff and volunteers had to quickly adapt and pivot their programs in order to continue providing social support to newcomers in Canada. While their new model is only a few months in the making, Together Project has learned a great deal about how to set up an online volunteering program.
In this presentation, Anna Hill and Andrew Lusztyk (from Together Project) share with us their insights, including:
- How to get started setting up an online volunteering program;
- Tips and tools to develop a greater capacity to onboard and train volunteers remotely;
- Benefits and challenges of online volunteering;
- How online volunteering can help vulnerable demographics––from equipping volunteers to tackle new challenges
View the webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/NEm0Vu-IhpA
NOTE: This presentation was for new users of Power BI and/or those interested in brushing up on the basic functions and features of the program. View webinar recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ybfzGdHlumc
Microsoft's Power BI allows you to monitor key metrics, spot real-time trends and create personalized dashboards without being a data expert. Our expert, Alyssa Ford from Tech Impact, walks us through why Power BI is a powerful, low-cost tool that allows you to take your data from virtually any source (Excel files, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, SQL server, SharePoint, etc.) and how to turn it into meaningful visualizations.
In this presentation, Alyssa covers:
– the basics of Power BI,
– what it can do,
– how licensing works,
– and some use-case examples.
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* Including stakeholders in the development of metrics to prevent surrogation, or the confusion of strategic intent with the metrics meant to represent it
* Creating an influential narrative around your results that helps you overcome bias, combat conventional thought and improve decision making
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Twitter Handle: @Starfocus
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We all have these questions, but the fact is- if done well measuring how people
interact with your organization online can greatly help you determine where to allocate
resources. In this session we’ll talk about why we measure, some measurement best
practices and a few free and enterprise tools that don’t break the bank.
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In this session you’ll learn:
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- how to build a data-informed approach,
- what data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
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Presented by Daniel Burstein, Rebecca Strally, and Diana Sindicich of MECLABS.
This content was originally developed for Dr. Goel's Social Media Class (Graduate level) at the University of North Florida. Learn how to use data to leverage your social media presence using a tested methodology and strategy.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
Reporting on individual metrics in isolation will only get you so far. Data-driven decision making requires deeper analysis that includes additional context. This context often comes from a variety of data sources, many of which are siloed. Learn about the importance of data context, as well as specific steps on how to provide context across a variety of data sources.
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- Tips and tools to develop a greater capacity to onboard and train volunteers remotely;
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- How to apply for your Google Ads Grant account
- Step by step how to create your first campaign inside your Google Ads Grant account
The webinar is for beginners looking to learn how to access & use the main features of Google Ads. To see the webinar recording and other resources please visit http://bit.ly/GoogleAdsWebinar
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In our team's special 10 Year Anniversary webinar we explore the lessons of the past decade, trends shaping nonprofit technology today, and tips and tricks for making the most of your TechSoup Canada membership.
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-Tech trends to embrace and which ones to approach more cautiously
-Tips and tricks for maximizing your TechSoup Canada membership
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- How to obtain & handle meaningful consent
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The webinar answers the following questions:
How can you avoid vendor captivity and software traps?
How can you prepare for a negotiation, including leveraging and timing the deal?
How can you draft a contract and prevent contract ambiguity?
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Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
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Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
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2. Data do not, of themselves, change the
world. They make change possible – by
identifying needs, supporting advocacy,
and gauging progress.
- UNICEF, data.unicef.org
3. Benefits of measuring your data
Improve your
work
Make data-informed
decisions
Multiply Impact
Understand your
community’s
demographics, identify
high need areas
Accountability
Demonstrate your impact
to members, donors,
customers, board and
prospects
Better
forecasts
Predict and analyze
impacts of
programming and
fundraising
Know what’s
effective
Understand what is
working and what
isn’t working
impact
4. 1. Denial
Support: High
Ideas: Share success
stories, offer
training and provide
overview of data in
your org
2. Fear
Support: High
Ideas: Help interpret
findings, provide
encouragement
3. Confusion
Support: High
Ideas: Be available to
answer questions,
create reports
together
4. Delight
Support: Moderate
Ideas: Empower,
encourage and share
results
5. Data-informed
Support: Low
Ideas: Encourage, share
results and celebrate
My program is
an art, not a
science … it
can’t be
measured!
What if my
strategy/
program
doesn’t show
success?
I know I should
be measuring
our program,
but I’m not sure
how?
Hey, check out
these cool
metrics!
What does
the data
say?
5 Stages of Data/Measurement Acceptance
8. Business Intelligence (BI)
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• Answers to the questions you’re already asking
• Who are the people we serve?
• Which months are the most active?
• Which programs bring in the most revenue?
9. Business Intelligence (BI)
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• Answers to the questions you’re already asking
• Who are the people we serve?
• Which months are the most active?
• Which programs bring in the most revenue?
• Descriptive
• Describes what is or what was
10. Business Intelligence (BI)
• Answers to the questions you’re already asking
• Who are the people we serve?
• Which months are the most active?
• Which programs bring in the most revenue?
• Descriptive
• Describes what is or what was
• Fishing in the lake
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11. Business Intelligence (BI)
Sample questions
• What are the demographics of the people we serve?
• How much income do specific initiatives generate?
• How many clients does each referral source generate?
• How do fundraising numbers this week compare to last week,
month, year?
• How do our email click through rates correlate to website
engagement?
13. Big Data
• Fishing in the ocean
• Velocity, volume, variety of
formats[, veracity]
14. Big Data
• Fishing in the ocean
• Velocity, volume, variety of
formats[, veracity]
• Trends, spikes, lows,
patterns
15. Big Data
• Fishing in the ocean
• Velocity, volume, variety of
formats[, veracity]
• Trends, spikes, lows,
patterns
• What are the questions we
should be asking?
16. Big Data
• Fishing in the ocean
• Velocity, volume, variety of
formats[, veracity]
• Trends, spikes, lows,
patterns
• What are the questions we
should be asking?
“Big Data, ideally, allows us
to do predictive marketing,
which is the holy grail of data
analysis.”
http://getmespark.com/wp-
content/uploads/EvidenceBasedDecisionMaking.pdf
19. You can’t manage
what you can’t
measure.
- Furniture Bank
techsoupcanada.ca/community/blog/how-furniture-bank-used-
innovative-technology-to-increase-social-impact
20. New regulation would impact major source of
revenue: journal subscriptions
Needed to re-evaluate traditional business plan
https://www.asaecenter.org/resources/articles/an_plus/2016/february/member-surveys-and-beyond
21. How can we:
• Expand revenue
streams?
• Engage nonmembers?
• Build a more inclusive
brand?
• Strengthen the plant
science community?
“We knew our opportunity
was in the size of the
community surrounding us.
We have a world of people
interacting with us but we
weren’t calling them
members.”
Susan Cato, director of digital strategy and
member services
https://www.asaecenter.org/resources/articles/an_plus/2016/february/member-surveys-and-beyond
22. • 19 separate data sources,
10 years worth of data
• Scrub!
• Identified 40,000
individuals with 2+
interactions
Redefine customer base
• What are their needs?
• How can we evolve
membership model?
• What tools and products
would they find useful?
https://www.asaecenter.org/resources/articles/an_plus/2016/february/member-surveys-and-beyond
23. Where should we focus our outreach efforts? By looking at our registration data, we see
that Word of Mouth and Google for Nonprofits are our highest referral sources.
24. However, if we look at our gross admin fees by referral source, we see that Word of
Mouth and IT Consultants/Resellers referrals give us the highest return on investment.
But … how does this connect to our mission?
27. 1. Define your question
What area would you like to explore?
What is your action question?
Recruiting members Efficiency of a process
A specific programAnnual campaign
Email list building
Social media outreach
Which segment is more engaged, express or implied consent?
28. 1. Define your question
Pro-tip: Appoint data champions around strategic goals
29. 2. Choose Metrics
What metrics should you measure? A few guiding questions:
What data
could you be
tracking? What decisions do you
want to be able to make
based on the data?
What does
success
look like?
What data
are you
already
tracking?
31. 3. Assess & Collect Data
What data are you currently collecting? If you need to data that you
don’t have, how are you going to collect it?
One-off
• Surveys
• User testing
Ongoing
• Registration/
Donation forms
• Website visits
or Offline
• Event surveys
• Focus groups
Online
• Web forms
• Email interactions
or
32. 3. Assess & Collect Data
Pro-tip: Collect it clean
33. 4. Review and Share Data
Pull data Analyze Record data &
insights
Share
Website?
Email?
Database?
34. 5. Use Data
MomsRising holds a weekly staff meeting called “Metrics Monday.”
Each program and campaign staff person reviews their reports in preparation for a group
conversation about what actions to reinforce, how refine messages, and other improvements.
Learn more: www.bethkanter.org/momsrising-key-results
“Our dashboards have multiple views –
a high level view and the ability to drill
down into specific campaigns.
This informs our discussion.”
36. 4 approaches to Dashboards
Static
spreadsheet
• Excel
• Google sheets
Built-in
dashboard
• Comes with your
database: CRM, CMS,
Email platform
Reporting/B.I./
dashboard tool
• Microsoft Power BI
• SAP
• Tableau
Custom
dashboards
• Need a programmer!
37. Pros
• Familiar tools
• No IT expertise needed
• Flexible, easy to customize
• Helps you experiment
Cons
• Less powerful than other tools
• Usually involves manual effort
• No real-time feedback
Spreadsheet Dashboards
40. Built-in Dashboards
Pros
• Pulls directly from existing data
automatically
• Often update in real time
• No new systems required
Cons
• Requires a robust dashboard
feature in your existing system
• System may not include all
relevant data
44. Pros
• Integrate multiple data sources
• Not reliant on built-in
dashboard functionality
• More features available
(e.g. compared to a
spreadsheet)
Cons
• A new system to acquire and
learn
• May require IT assistance, or at
least tech savvy staff
Reporting /B.I./Dashboard Tools
48. Pros
• Exactly customized for you,
maximum flexibility
• Integrate multiple data sources
Cons
• Custom development (IT)
required
• Need capacity to maintain it
Custom Dashboards
51. You have access to free nonprofit tech resources
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