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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

Candid

We have conducted grantee profile analyses as well as cross-sectional comparisons by geography and issue area. These analyses are strictly consumed and discussed by internal stakeholder groups such as the board of trustees, program teams, and executive council and in aggregated forms.

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Research Friday: The Trouble with Pay Raises

ASU Lodestar Center

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does the input aggregated allow you to move forward on a project or move forward in a new direction? You should also review how you’ve traditionally done the work or solicited the input or encouraged the action in the past and note what worked and what didn’t work previously to use as a comparison to crowdsourced efforts.

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Data Visualization Do’s and Don’ts for Every Organization

DNL OmniMedia

For example, a healthcare professional should determine whether information from their healthcare data platform should be presented to clinicians, researchers, or analysts. Use surveys, interviews, audience data, and other research methods to learn more about your target audience and their data visualization needs and expectations.

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What It Means to be a Connected K–12 School

sgEngage

Instead of having one source of truth for school and student information, someone on your team will have the responsibility of manually aggregating data from reports that come from disparate systems. For more tips on researching, selecting, and implementing software solutions, check out our K–12 School SIS and LMS Transition Toolkit.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. To view the full text of the report, click here. When the U.S.

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