Nonprofit Data Analytics: Overview & How to Get Started
Nonprofit data analytics empowers you to collect and analyze data so that you can improve your organization. Learn more in this educational guide!
Practical Data for Nonprofits Part 5— Buckets of Reporting
You will be a lot less frustrated with your reporting if you understand that in the nonprofit sector, reports actually fall into four big buckets.
To use each of these types of reports most effectively, it’s helpful to know that you ask different questions from different types of skillsets or software depending on what you’re asking for.
Salesforce Obscura: This quarter vs the same quarter last year, but ALIVE
A quick one that is the bane of many a fundraiser’s existence. You want to compare Q1 this year to Q1 last year. You’ve probably found tutorials that let you create a formula that outputs Q1, Q2 etc but then in your report filters you have to manually update the quarter each time it changes.
What if it could always represent a living quarter-to-date analysis of whatever the current quarter is? So as soon as Q2 hits, the report updates to show Q2 last year and Q2 this year, without anyone changing filters?