This activity will help your staff connect the dots between data, community feedback, and a persuasive grant narrative that funders can’t ignore.
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This activity will help your staff connect the dots between data, community feedback, and a persuasive grant narrative that funders can’t ignore.
The post Try This: Making Your Case to Secure Grant Funding appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
Behind-the-scenes Excel workarounds to label your x-axis juuust right.
My first piece of advice, stop using PDFs to share your reports.
Now I know that 95% of you not follow that advice. Even if PDFs are shown to be unfit for human consumption, they are still the status quo reporting tool for most organizations. (For the very few of you who will consider that advice, check out this post I wrote about creating web reports.)
So, given that you are likely to continue using PDFs to share your work, let’s talk about how those PDFs should be formatted.

At lot of organizations stick with PDFs because you can make a PDF look really pretty. While web development has come a long way in the last decade, it’s still far easier to work within a set canvas (i.e. 8.5 x 11 inches).
But it’s also like that restaurant with the fantastic presentation but tasteless food. I went to a bakery like this, got some really beautiful looking french pastries to try out. Unfortunately the beautiful looking pastries tasted like stale bread.
Report theater is when an organization wants to deliver a report with a certain look. But whether that report is readable or useful in any way is irrelevant.
If that’s you, by all means, create in whatever format you want.

But if you are trying to create human readable reports, and must stick with PDF, then you should be creating in widescreen.
Because if someone is reading your PDF report, the vast majority of the time, they will be reading that report using a laptop or desktop computer. Meaning, they will be reading your report with a widescreen.
And if you would like direction on how to create such a report, check out this blog post I wrote on Slidedocs.
I can think of one pretty solid argument against my advice. How about you?
El artículo de Tom Aston (2024) ofrece una revisión de las tendencias emergentes en la evaluación de blogs, podcasts y webinars durante la segunda mitad de 2024. Se centra en tres temas principales: la narración de historias desde múltiples perspectivas, la sostenibilidad en medio de la ‘policrisis’ y las promesas y posibles trampas de la evaluación feminista. Además, aborda dos metatendencias relacionadas con los desafíos de establecer límites evaluativos y buscar explicaciones parsimoniosas.
Ideas Centrales:
Retos y Oportunidades:
Aspectos Recurrentes:
Conclusión: El artículo destaca la evolución de la evaluación hacia enfoques más inclusivos, participativos y sostenibles. A medida que enfrentamos desafíos globales como el cambio climático y las desigualdades de género, es crucial que las evaluaciones adopten perspectivas más holísticas y flexibles. La integración de múltiples formas de conocimiento y la consideración de la sostenibilidad y la justicia social pueden enriquecer significativamente el campo de la evaluación.
Referencias
Data isn’t just about numbers—it’s about telling the story of your impact.
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