Improve Clarity
Utilize effective information design and data visualization to elevate understanding, credibility, and persuasiveness.
Optimize Effectiveness
Enhance productivity and efficiency while minimizing costs to create a greater impact.
Build Resilience
Strengthen capacity to adapt to operational challenges and recover from setbacks, ensuring sustainability.
Embrace Change
Ensure successful outcomes utilizing organizational transformation and change management strategies.
Achieve greater impact with limited resources.
Nonprofits don’t have it easy.
For over two decades, as a nonprofit Executive Director, COO, and consultant, I encountered the same disheartening fact that all nonprofits must face:
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Grantmakers and donors do not wish to see resources going towards overhead.
I decided there had to be a better way than leaving your organization's operational future to chance, hoping for the elusive non-restricted grant, which, even if you got lucky, was never enough.
​It came down to one not-so-simple fact:
Nonprofits must figure out how to do more with less.
How MiLab Helps Nonprofits
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Optimize Operational Efficiency & Effectiveness
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Research & Implement Cost Savings
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Build Operational Resilience
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Deliver Information Design & Data Visualization
Four key areas have been identified as having the most significant impact on nonprofit operational success:
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Process Optimization
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Cost Savings Implementation
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Operational Resilience Building
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Information Design & Data Visualization Development
MiLab supports readers in developing and implementing tailored solutions aligned with these four categories, customizing strategies to meet each nonprofit’s specific needs.
The process then guides you in sourcing and equipping your team with the necessary resources and knowledge to ensure organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
​The included project and change management techniques bolster success by helping your organization navigate operational transitions and embrace change with greater confidence and clarity.
The Methodology Works.
It’s practical, cost-effective, and builds a strong operational infrastructure that strengthens programs and serves both internal and external stakeholders with precision.
Best of all, it helps nonprofit organizations maximize mission impact efficiently, sustainably, and with greater clarity.
Information Design
& Data Visualization Examples
You only have minutes of a potential grantmaker's focus and only seconds of a possible donor's attention.
Don't leave it to chance!​
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​​MiLab helps you discover the tools to ensure your program’s needs, progress, results, and mission are communicated in accessible and engaging ways while clearly illustrating value and creating a sense of urgency through effective information design and data visualization.​
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Did you know?
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Visual tools increase stakeholder engagement by 40%.
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65% of people are visual learners.
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Visual content is processed 60,000 times faster than text.
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Wins are focused upon, and positive results, highlighted.
53% of donors cite poor communication as a reason for stopping their donations.
By using information design principles, nonprofits can create visually appealing and easy-to-understand reports that show the impact of donor contributions.
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Your audience can quickly grasp advanced data and statistical concepts.
Visuals can improve comprehension and retention by up to 89%.
Information presented in a visual format, such as graphs or charts, is remembered by 65% of people three days later.
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Complicated process? We provide resources and examples here at the companion site to inspire.
Infographics are 30 times more likely to be read than text articles, and content that includes infographics, can see up to a 45% increase in engagement rates.
They can boost learning and retention of information by 78%.
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Surveys, focus groups, and feedback results should be engaging.
Respondents who find surveys visually appealing and engaging are 40% more likely to complete future surveys from the same organization.
Using interactive elements in surveys, such as sliders and drag-and-drop options, can increase respondent engagement by 30%.
Survey respondents were 50% more likely to understand and accurately answer questions when visual aids were used.
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Sometimes, there’s just no way around it—it’s long. That’s okay!
Generative AI excels at helping summarize complex ideas.
38% of people will stop engaging with a website if the content or layout is unattractive or too complicated.
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Need to explain next steps to a diverse audience? There is a growing host of AI tools to help your message shine.
Well-designed, clear, and engaging step-by-step instructions can improve task completion rates by up to 45% and reduce errors by up to 50%.
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What about interactive GIS tools to illustrate your needs and support your mission? Funders absolutely love them!
Organizations have reported up to a 50% increase in the effectiveness of their fundraising efforts when using GIS to demonstrate needs and impacts visually.
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Sometimes, there’s nothing better than an explainer video.
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Video content holds viewers' attention 2.6 times longer than text content.
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What about team communication?
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Do you need to engage and educate your stakeholders or perhaps the community at large? Do you desire a project management tool that anyone can understand?
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Nothing beats a visual approach when dealing with quantitative or qualitative data.
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Instructional materials with visual aids were 70% more effective in helping users understand complex processes compared to text-only instructions.
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