Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

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. This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

sgEngage

MAY 6, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. for the 3 months ending March 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011. Online Fundraising Trends.

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Blackbaud Statistics Trend Offline 48

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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International Guatemala Colombia Analysis 150

Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

labor unions based on Candid’s data and discuss trends and opportunities for future research. This is not surprising given that these states also have some of the largest workforces and highest labor union densities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Financial data. Unions by the numbers. billion in assets, $26.3

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Trend Files Local Review 105

sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Giving Tuesday began in 2012, raising an estimated $10 million in its first year, according to Nonprofits Source. Thanksgiving holiday each year, meaning that nonprofits have almost an entire year to analyze their data from this past Giving Tuesday and start planning for 2023. Demographic and personal information.

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Demographics Retention Donor Research 73

Volunteer Hub

MAY 13, 2022

Generation Z (or Gen-Z for short), represents individuals born between 1997 and 2012. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 26.4% Here is some information that can help. Data-Entry. With a passion for positive impact, this segment of volunteers can help your nonprofit reach its mission. Who is Generation Z? According to the U.S.

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Generation Volunteer Social Media Virtual 85

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As HRDAG sets out on its own, its primary focus will continue to be on the data-driven and scientific side of analyzing human rights violations around the world. I encourage you to check out HRDAG’s new website to get more information and to stay informed about their new and ongoing work.

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Analysis Project Open Source Analytics 174

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 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. As part of a.

Research 75

Research Arizona Philanthropy Foundation 75

Neon CRM

JULY 19, 2023

Here are 10 year-end giving statistics that show just how important the final month of the year can be—and how your nonprofit can leverage these trends to make your end-of-year campaign a success. This global day of generosity began in 2012 and has only grown bigger and bigger with each passing year. What does this data tell us?

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Statistics Giving Fundraising Benchmark 98

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Free meal site data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit that collects data on free federal and grassroots summer meal sites. Stay tuned!

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Feeds Free Hunger Help 78

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

OK — confession time — I love data — but the data from the State of Grantseeking Survey has real, valuable results that can impact the grantseeking success of nonprofits. What are the statistics for new organizations vs. established nonprofits? Is there a "peak" age for nonprofits?

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Survey Grant Comparison Analysis 56

Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provides the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. View historical data from The Blackbaud Index: Instead of just displaying the past 12 months, The Blackbaud Index will now display archived data going back to January 2010. This is the first negative trend in 6 months.

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Blackbaud Trend Chart United States 33

Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

You've probably heard the statistics. Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. That means you need to make sure your information is viewable and useable on a mobile device. Collecting information.

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Mobile Tips Broadcast Phone 55

Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

" Or so said Aaron Pava , a strategist at CivicActions in his 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Pava started off outlining the familiar statistics about mobile's explosive growth , and what those trends mean for nonprofit organizations who are thinking about mobile solutions: Start thinking "mobile first.

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Open Source Mobile Open Change 44

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given that nonprofits must operate in a wide variety of complex environments, they must work diligently to continuously create innovate strategies to meet the needs and expectations of their diverse stakeholder populations (Benjamin, 2012). Giving Statistics.” What can organizations do for the benefit of their relationship with donors?

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Support Donor Strategy Arizona 40

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It also highlights the challenges and pitfalls of digital listening, delving into the dangerous ways that your data can lead you astray. The second theme contextualizes the use of analytics within organizations, challenging the mythology that has arisen around “Big Data” and data wizards. The Myth of the Data Wizards.

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Analytics Advocacy Chapter Environment 31

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. It’s a really big part of our world. That's around 1.3 billion of us doing it.

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Phone NSF PowerPoint Mobile 67

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Your constituents now expect to receive relevant and interesting information in every email. Helps data integrity (verify mailing address; find out interests). #3 In case you didn’t see, nonprofit click-through rates declined 16% in 2012.**. When looking at test results, make sure you achieved statistical significance.

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email Campaign Test Benchmark 48

Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

For many years now Blackbaud has published data on the most generous online giving cities in the United States. For the 2013 edition, we made the decision to significantly expand the amount of data in the analysis. In 2013, donors in the 265 cities raised more than $822 million online—a whopping 61% increase from 2012.

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Online El Paso Wichita Giving 44

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2012

I’m focused on data. This year will, I hope, be the year of data. I see more organizations looking for ways to be data-driven in decision making, communications, campaigning, and marketing, and I see a growing interest in and understanding of the value in sharing data. Data for Reporting. Day service events.

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Data Report Map Hunger 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I felt very strongly that the information gap about non-profits in the country severely impacted philanthropy; it was so hard to find out who was doing what and where in the country, and then screen them through due diligence filters in order to give a guarantee that these were credible non-profits. Why did you set up GuideStar India?

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India NGO South Africa Profit 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. As I was helping her translate the data in excel spreadsheet into a line graph, I realized that the project was essentially an a/b test.

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Measure Social Media Project California 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. I’ve also collected infographics that summarize global data on various platforms on a pinterest board.

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Policy Social Media International News 103

TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In 2012, 58% of the Millennial population said they used the mobile Internet, and this number is only increasing. Sharing statistics, the result of volunteer efforts, and how your nonprofit got started can make the cause more meaningful to a potential donor who is just learning about your foundation. million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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Websites Donation Donor Reddit 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The infographic summarizes crowdfunding data points including average gift size and average crowdfunding campaign totals from platforms like Causes, Causevox, FirstGiving, Razoo, and StayClassy. Some statistics from the infographic: $88 is the average donation size. share information and tools, earlier and more easily.

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Practice Data Statistics Meme 129

NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. We’re a nonprofit, data-driven social media PR agency with one client, the ocean, and one goal: more people talking about the ocean. Our competition is Justin Bieber, not each other.

Org 59

Org Share Data Conservancy 59

NetWits

MARCH 29, 2011

AMD is predicting that, by 2015, 50% of the world will have an Internet connection and Phone Count predicts that by 2012 there will be as many connected mobile phones as there are people in the world. A few additional interesting statistics: 19% of cellphone owners ages 18-29 said that they’ve donated via text message. [

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Mobile Blackberry Internet Phone 232

NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Whatever your passion – from mapping urban trees to advising nonprofits or building apps to make information more accessible – tune in to your ever-active nonprofit technology community to be inspired and stay connected! We live in such a fast-paced society that current information is critical to the success of anyone trying to raise funds.”

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Research Ideas Tools Survey 67

NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We love data! All kinds of new reports are available to inform your organizational strategy. Blackbaud just released the "Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2012". The report guides you through key statistics and insights into giving trends. We all procrastinate and donors are no exception.

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Project Report Hurricane Classroom 73

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. Find eligibility information here. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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Charity News Causes Facebook 65

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

This is absolutely a valuable metric, but I was curious how this data might vary if the list was based on organizations with the strongest social media presence.the ones we stand to learn the most from. When I could not find up to date lists containing this type of information, I figured the first step would be to gather it myself.

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Social Media Web Media United States 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Free Mobile Nonprofit Map 280

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Easelly allows you to easily to create infographics for your nonprofit by using pre-designed templates and a simple drag-and-drop process for data integration. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. Easelly :: easel.ly.

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Web Tools Free Mobile 274

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com.

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Web Tools Free Mobile 279

sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The Right Donor Data Transfer There is a lot of time and attention on what goes into getting someone to make an online gift. Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? Smartphones are flying off the shelves and tablet sales are expected to boom by 2012. Not to mention getting receipting right.

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Trend Nonprofit Blackbaud Aggregator 75

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Web Tools Free Social Media 258

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. As part of that goal, TechSoup provides heavily discounted technology products and information geared specifically to the unique challenges faced by nonprofits and libraries. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 272