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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000?

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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category.

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Revitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals

Connection Cafe

Heather Grady, Vice President of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, introduced the SDG Philanthropy Platform to the room. The SDG Philanthropy Platform informs and catalyzes collaboration through building awareness and connections between those working in the philanthropic space. The Power of Using Data in the Media.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ). How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements. The limitations of data related to racial or ethnic groups are even greater than in other areas. Even in the U.S.,

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data. Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. has awarded over $3.5

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