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How to Use Data to Improve Prospect Identification

sgEngage

No matter if your organization is large or small, learning to use data effectively is your most powerful method to improve prospect identification for major giving. Understanding Benchmark Data. The broadest industry benchmarking data is a good place to start. This is where more focused data comes into play.

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How To Track Everyone Who's Anyone To You: Is A Single Database Right for Your Org?

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. The ability to easily see how all your constituents interact with your organization, and with each other, makes for an attractive, ideal vision of what a database should be. In reality, a single database means some compromise.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. Data and Philanthropy.

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Maximizing Your Data, Minimizing Your Time

NTEN

Nonprofits need to find a way to capture this information, to build a bridge from its commercial social network to something it owns to ensure against data loss. Without them, you have no fundraising information, no campaign data, no volunteer information. Does your social media team track and report changes and updates to the data?

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

NTEN

But what we really need is data. It seems like a simple thing: get out in the community, collect the data, do the math. But data collection can be painfully slow, and in some cases, lack of speed can mean the difference between life and death. The nomination deadline for the 2011 prize is February 11, 2011.

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

Tech Soup

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

Amy Sample Ward

"" Free Access: Nonprofit Tagline Database & Report | Nonprofit Marketing | Getting Attention – "Don't miss the just-released, all-new Nonprofit Tagline Database with 4,800+ organizational, program, fundraising campaign and special event taglines. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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