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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

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Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Why get good at Excel?

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

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Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

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After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

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Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Growing your community of supporters is the only measure that matters. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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