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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Some are calling it impact investing.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Blackbaud Index for February 2011

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Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

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Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. Grants to support community college education grew from $181 million in 2008 to $336 million in 2018—an 85 percent increase.

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