Tag Archives: Publication Design

Top Tips to Make the Most of Your Annual Report Design Budget

I polled the Annual Report Design Team at MillerCox Design and these are our top tips on how to make the most of your design budget. Whether your budget is generous or streamlined, your organization can benefit from these tips.

Nten 2014 Takeaways — Nonprofit video, dataviz and SEO

Posted by Heather Cox

For the second year in a row, I attended the Nten conference put on by the Nonprofit technology network. Once again, I met amazing leaders in the nonprofit sector doing terrific work to solve some of our world’s most difficult challenges. I also had the privilege to serve the attendees by presenting a session entitled “Emerging Trends in Annual Reports”. Presenting with me were Sheri Chaney Jones from Measurement Resources (her new book will be released by Wiley later this year) and Yasmin Nguyen from Vibrance Global. Our session covered three ideas: Stop counting hamburgers! Sheri explained how to implement a measurement culture that emphasizes strong performance and measurable outcomes. Yasmin showed us all a simple way to take and upload video using his iPad, a tripod, and YouTube. I demonstrated simple ways to add interactivity to PDFs, and an easy way to post your annual report content online using a READ MORE »

Why Annual Report Design Matters

Posted by Heather Cox

I saw Dan Palotta’s keynote at the 2013 Nten conference last week in Minneapolis. Palotta describes how, since 1970, the social sector hasn’t moved the needle on our biggest social problems. He believes that this is because nonprofit leaders aren’t thinking big about being willing to invest in their cause. They feel constrained by the artificial construct of the ratio of overhead to program spending. Palotta reminded nonprofits that their goal isn’t to keep overhead low, it’s to solve our great social problems. Palotta goes on to say that this common practice of using administrative overhead as criteria for determining worthiness is reinforced by the rating organizations Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, who do not report the impact the nonprofit has, but instead, this short-sighted metric.