3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. Check our blog – you will find that we periodically report on the aggregated polling results.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. I hosted a webinar that digs into the approaches and tools that Forum One thinks any modern nonprofit, association, foundation or government agency should be looking at in order to manage their data.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. million nonprofits in the U.S. , According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ These initiatives may be focused on company operations (such as hiring practices, implicit bias trainings, supply chain diversification) or they may be more externally-focused philanthropic commitments, most commonly in the form of donations to nonprofit organizations.[ billion dollars.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

It’s so easy to use, and has so much potential for the nonprofit sector, that I couldn’t wait any longer to show it to you! As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. Qriously for Nonprofits. It’s incredible! And the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ll cover the basics of content curation – what it is, why is it important for nonprofits, and how to use curation as part of your content strategy. I’ll also be talking about how good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload and including some simple frameworks to get started.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Understanding the goals and objectives, and the potential data that could serve these goals, Forum One helped develop a system to aggregate payroll and advancement data from employers, then map it to internal data attached to members who had matriculated through the professional development program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar. Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. There are organizations creating content like NAVCA, NCVO, LASA with the Knowledgebase, and KnowHow NonProfit. There’s also non-branded content (non-nonprofit or non-tech) as well as non-UK specific groups and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

Map the data. As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. Establish the underlying coordinates. Draw a conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. In other words, you have a learning journey here in this resourced, mapped out in 15 minutes a day over the next month or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So, I thought I'd take a stab at remixing it for nonprofits.  Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. Green: Aggregate Content Blog. .  I really like how she has presented the different approaches to blogging. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Imagine if we did that in the nonprofit sector. I don't want to get into a long diatribe about why we don't share in the nonprofit sector; lots of great posts already accurately define the problem. So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. Take GreatNonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And how can nonprofits and public libraries actually make use of it? At SOCAP13 , a social enterprise conference in San Francisco, I attended two back-to-back conferences on big data with some nonprofit representation. The first session, Big Data and Philanthropy, featured two interesting projects that can greatly benefit nonprofits.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns. I know they'd suck up too much time. That's cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. I think that slapping up a widget and not having strategy doesn't work.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Nonprofits often deal with an overwhelming amount of data. Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. Developing apps and websites that take advantage of the power of the Facebook platform is of paramount importance for nonprofits. Donor Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. View more presentations from kanter.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? Nonprofits are also using listening to support improved program implementation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2010 was also a good year for maps and data visualization, from the true size of Africa and the relief efforts in Haiti to the amount of data Americans consume and the relative size of all the social media spaces.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2010 was also a good year for maps and data visualization, from the true size of Africa and the relief efforts in Haiti to the amount of data Americans consume and the relative size of all the social media spaces.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

But for now, Listening and feedback loops are important skills for nonprofit leaders and for organizations to get better results. Do nonprofits and foundations listen to the people they seek to help and act on what they hear? But, most nonprofits do NOT collect feedback in an ongoing, systematic way. The answer is…sort of….

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! In On Being Nonprofit , Frumkins Figure 5.2 posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. Not so much how to use it, but how to use effectively.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

To help, the Communications Network recently published a guide to help foundations and nonprofits develop plans to evaluate their communications. The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. I particularly like the worksheet.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Just get started!

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