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Becoming a Data-Driven Association

Nucleus

With Nucleus, data is pulled in near real-time from all your critical systems and aggregated in a modern data lake – this comprehensive and always-current data can then be used to provide insights throughout the organization. Demonstrate your commitment to a data-driven transformation. in 2012 to 65.0%

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Putting Our Humanity Back at the Center of Engagement

sgEngage

There is no shortage of frameworks and methodologies for measuring, assessing, and articulating social impact; however, one element that we must not lose sight of is our qualitative data and stories. Impact measured through storytelling Finally, as we look at the year ahead, I would be remiss if I did not mention impact.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Bridging Social Technologies and Sustainable Development: Social Squared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and inspire alignment,’ said Benioff. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. A is for alignment. L is for the leadership that does that.”. A is for action.

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I heard about tools for building campaigns and aggregating citizen science data I wouldn’t have discovered at an ocean-themed event because they’re not being applied to coastal problems just yet. That’s how I ended up at PdF. And because of that, I learned about communities crowdfunding their parks and recycling programs. But they could be.

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Building Your Grantseeking Program: Setting Measurable Objectives

Tech Soup

Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. That's compared to the largest individual award median of $150,000 for government funders (an aggregate of local, state, and federal government).

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Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Foundation Center hosts one of the well-known philanthropy transparency projects called Glass Pockets. (I’ve found the site invaluable because it aggregates information about foundations, including social media efforts, and it makes it very efficient to search for examples for trainings and presentations ).