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Know Your Volunteers To Drive Better Volunteers

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According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, approximately 25.4% of of Americans over the age of 16 volunteered in some capacity between 2009, and 2013. All of this information and more will help your nonprofit target and obtain better volunteers. Nothing is off limits when developing these profiles.

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5 Good Nonprofit Infographics

sgEngage

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits. Let’s help share information about what’s happening across the nonprofit sector. Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore.

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Counting Deaths in the Rionegro Cemetery

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In most of the papers I was reading on the statistical methodology I was trying to employ and modify, the information about the counts described reported cases of a rare disease. The most recent NNs that arrived at the cemetery at the end of May, 2009. the “no-names” or buried people whose names are unknown.

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The Questions Every Nonprofit Should Ask About Sensitive Data

NTEN

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S.

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Organizational transparency, the disclosure of operational, financial, and decision-making information, remains a significant factor in the formation of the public’s trust in an organization’s mission and intent. Giving Statistics.” Donor Communication. What can organizations do for the benefit of their relationship with donors?

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How Nonprofits Can Positively Impact Climate Change on Blog Action Day 2009

Tech Soup

The Energy Information Administration , the US government's official source for energy statistics, reported that in 2006, electricity generation alone was responsible for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the US.

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