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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The SWOT analysis, which typically begins a planning process, makes you a prisoner of that crowded environment. But that’s where the comparisons to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey end. Use What Works This post presents Blue Ocean Strategy in broad strokes. Move Beyond SWOT Sharon explains the book’s premise like this.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders.

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Need to leave Common Ground? Analyze first. Then react.

Judi Sohn

When I met Ehren Foss and learned about his plans for a CloudFixer Analysis Tool for Common Ground , I jumped at the opportunity to help him. I loved the idea of a simple, affordable solution that organizations could use right now that would give them unfiltered data to inform their decisions. It’s not about price comparisons.

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Nonprofit Marketing: How Technologies Will Change the Future

Nonprofits Source

If using these new technologies effectively, nonprofit professionals can speed up their ability to build relationships with supporters, analyze donor data , and create sustainable fundraising plans. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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“Survey Says” VS. Research

Achieve

That’s because surveys are often not well-constructed; they only provide self-report data; and they often are only capturing data from one point in time. to collect data independently or within that process. What kind of data do you need? And mixed-methods will, in most cases, require both kinds of data collection tools.

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4 Performance Measurement Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

Tech Soup

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. Managers and the board were so overwhelmed by the huge amount of information that their eyes tended to glaze over when the data was presented. Poor Presentation. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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