MNA Association

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of scouring spreadsheets for the data you need, you can spend more time focusing on your mission and beneficiaries. Alternatively, you may already have data management practices in place but want to spend more time focusing on your mission instead. Boost efficiency. Increase transparency.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

They allow you to collaborate with others so you won’t waste time sending Word docs and Excel spreadsheets back and forth while tracking versions. Teams also has video conferencing, as an alternative to Zoom , as well as file storage. Plus you can access them from anywhere, anytime. Google Forms have so many uses for nonprofits.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We worked with external vendors, so as you can imagine there were a ton of spreadsheets involved. Someone creates a massive spreadsheet and then you discover some errors so you send it back with edits. The other alternative is that you can set this up in EveryAction, hit the update counts button, and get results in under 2 minutes!

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The Agitator

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And so, sooner or later, fundraisers too will come to learn that carefully executed modeling has developed to the point where it represents a viable alternative or addition to using the same-old-same-old response lists for finding new donors. We’ll deal with the current predictive analytic options available to nonprofits in future posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. You may want to use a spreadsheet to track how various products stack up in your evaluation. How to Choose the Right Software. Here are some common requirements that may apply to your organization.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 12, 2011

The calendar is a spreadsheet with projects down the side and communications channels across the top. One important element of the new process has been the Editorial Calendar. CompassPoint turned to Holly Minch at Lightbox Collaborative for help with the design. Each month has its own tab. Check out the editorial calendar here.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you want greater security than Drive offers, Dropbox and Box are popular alternatives. Many nonprofits start with a spreadsheet using Google Sheets or Excel. There are many alternatives to Foundation Directory Online, including GrantStation , GrantWatch , and Instrumentl , which offers a free two-week trial.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 26, 2023

Alternatively, you can use branded links. You can also save the UTM codes for each campaign in a spreadsheet, which you can then use to distinguish between them in Google Analytics. Long URLs will also shorten when you share them on different platforms. It is best to keep the URLs brief. Utilizing a service like bit.ly

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2018

Even so, these tools won't correct mathematical formulas in your budget or make sure that the numbers in your Excel spreadsheet match the numbers you've written in your narrative. If a word has three or more syllables, consider a shorter alternative. online writing tools that will help , like Grammarly, the Hemingway app, and others.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Alternatively, you might have the necessary data on hand but not know how to leverage it effectively. These days, it’s near impossible to find a nonprofit that isn’t using some sort of software to manage their donor data, whether it’s a fully-loaded nonprofit CRM or a simple spreadsheet.

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The Kindful Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

How you can use it: Bloomerang allows you to ditch the spreadsheet and unlock your engagement potential with gift tracking, wealth screening, and smart reporting. Kindful CRM Integration: No, Salesforce is an alternative to Kindful. Google Sheets. You’ll also want to consider the skills necessary to set up your advertising campaigns.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

11 For our ancestors, community-based midwifery care was not “alternative” birth care—it was birth care. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”. There is another way.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

Emotive feelings connect us to others in strong, emotional ways (numbers only connect us to a spreadsheet). Then, you can offer an alternative way to think about the situation. , you need to relate to them like the humans you both are. And human beings have feelings galore. And that emotional connection is the point.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Few people understand this alternative: simply not telling anyone the story of your brand. You can use an Excel spreadsheet or a specific system to create and manage your storytelling budget. Saying nothing at all. Another technique for using storytelling is to say nothing at all. Budgeting your storytelling strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

But you soon find yourself spending each spare moment entering donors’ information into a spreadsheet, sending out thank-you emails, and totaling up donations. And if your team is currently working with a software provider but is still facing these challenges, consider switching to an alternative.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

And so over the first few weeks, I really thought about looking at jobs to apply for and I spent a lot of time with my budget spreadsheets at home, trying to figure out like, what am I going to need if consulting is going to work? So I build out my little spreadsheet and I say like, “The salary needs to be at least this.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s a spreadsheet. Excel is not a spreadsheet. It’s a spreadsheet. Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames. You can have the powerhouse to the basics. But I say don’t use Excel because guess what, Excel is not a database. So products do exist out there. Type in yes or no.

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NextAfter

AUGUST 10, 2023

We must remember that our donors are not just a little number inside of an Excel spreadsheet — they’re living, breathing complex human beings. And the more careful you are about how you think about your donors, the more effective you will be at connecting one human to another human, which leads to greater results.

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