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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

NTEN

In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.” In 2012, NTEN was able to survey a sample of US nonprofits to find out how they were doing when it comes to being data-driven: were they collecting data and tracking metrics?

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. ASU Lodestar Center's Arizona Giving and Volunteering 2010 report, pg.

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2011 Online Giving Grows 13%! Are You Prepared to Get Your Share?

Tech Soup

comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. behind us, and nonprofits will continue to see positive growth in 2012.” In 2010, these organizations had the slowest growth rate in the. Blackbaud recently released its 2011 Online Giving report. online and offline data representing $5.1

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I think that seeing decision making and action as a cyclical process that begins (and ultimately ends) with preparation and analysis forces leaders to find a good rhythm that has them constantly moving through the loop. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The 2014 Charitable Giving Report

Connection Cafe

It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector. despite the absence of the high profile episodic events that drove an increase in giving in both 2013 and 2012. billion in total fundraising. Overall Giving Trends. In 2014, overall charitable giving in the United States increased 2.1%

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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

Conducting some total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis on projected new acquisitions. Tips and Tools for Technology Planning is a Slideshare presentation from NTC 2012 by some NPTech heavyweights, Peter Campbell, Ariel Gilbert-Knight, Carlos Bergfeld, and Karl Robilard. Finalize the technology plan with benefits and outcomes.

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Charitable Giving Grew to $373.25 Billion in the U.S. in 2015

Connection Cafe

This is the sixth consecutive year of increases in giving, a period of growth that began in 2010. for three of the four years between 2012 and 2015. This is based on an analysis of $19.7 Giving USA is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Who is Giving. compared to 2014.

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