Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

Digital strategy runs on data. Without robust data and analytics, any organization’s strategy is just a series of guesses. While it’s easier than ever to access data—every digital action, from website clicks to member signups produces a trackable trail—knowing how to use the data is a different story. How reliable is it?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. How can charities use AI?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to Blackbaud data , the perfect fundraising portfolio is 120 prospects or less. This is an opportunity for your data to shine. But if not, your fundraising solution should include some type of data insights, like wealth ratings, next ask amounts, or giving trends. Dig into the data. . Look at macro trends. .

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Review Fundraising Proposal Gift 91

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Due to the vast amount of data that goes into training and optimizing ChatGPT, the AI-enabled tool can summarize ideas and answer questions with general accuracy. You can train ChatGPT to automate certain back office tasks such as processing donations, sending thank you messages, arranging to-dos, and even organizing data.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 94

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Empathy, or the quality that baffled Star Trek’s Mr. Data, will continue to be lacking in his real-world counterparts. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. Welcome every proposal. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Data Without Border’s kickoff Data Dive is what tempted me across the country, and after a much longer than expected day of travel I found myself surrounded by fellow nerds (data scientists, as this particular group prefers to be called). Sara LaPlante, NYCLU’s data and policy analyst laid out two clear goals for us.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Identification. Pre-qualification. 4 to 6 weeks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

This is a good analysis of the evolution of Tech for Good, Cloud for Good, Data for Good, and the latest iteration: AI For Good. The article includes list of proposed best practices for use of AI in development and other social good fields. (I ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what.

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Hype Digital Proposal Podcast 104

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ensure they agree with your proposed budget for consulting services and understand the potential return on investment of hiring a consultant. Create a request for proposal (RFP). Once you have narrowed down your potential consultants to a few top candidates, send them your RFP to compare their proposed solutions.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Data can only become knowledge when we engage with it in a socially connected way.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 71

Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related. This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Map Trend Data Open Source 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

That’s the title of my proposed panel for SXSW 2014. This session presents a new form of social media analysis that combines social and survey data. We’ll share the results of three demonstration projects based on social media and survey data from 6,000 respondents. Please take a minute a vote for it!

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Social Media Analytics Media Virginia 97

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. Get the rest of the details here. Opportunity Alert: Four Powerful Enhancements to the Social Actions API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

People’s Guide to AI: This comprehensive beginner’s guide to understanding AI and other data-driven tech explains AI-based technologies so that everyone—from youth to seniors, and from non-techies to experts—has the chance to think critically about what the technology can do. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Few things are as important to successful fundraising teams as clean data around your prospect portfolio and moves management. Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program. Step 3: Prepare Your Database.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How much more will they be able to raise, based on your current team’s data? 79% of major gift data is never entered into the CRM.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With any proposal, you need to explain why implementing your suggestion benefits whomever you’re persuading. Competitors analysis. Competitor analysis can be persuasive as it shows companies that businesses of all sizes, from worldwide operations to mom-and-pop businesses, offer workplace giving programs. Benefits breakdown.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It starts with a six-week period to gather session proposals from the community, followed by two weeks of voting — which just started this week! Conducting a comprehensive landscape analysis: undergoing a full technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics audit to understand the state of play.

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Colorado Digital Audience Denver 46

Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

The research, evaluation, and data needed to satisfy funders about these issues can easily overwhelm an underfunded nonprofit. Your own – and your organization’s – unconscious biases can easily color the way you word survey questions, lead focus groups and analyze data. Standards for High-Quality Research and Analysis. ,

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. Nonprofit Technology analysis campaign fundraising Major Giving metrics prospect management prospecting reporting'

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Rate System Management Analysis 35

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors. They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Conversely, what would happen to your community without your nonprofit’s presence?

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams also talked about how funders are becoming ever more data driven and interested in quantifying the impact of their grantmaking in terms of benefits to the maximum number of individuals. It provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy. The Role of Technology in Philanthropy. Just for Libraries.

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America Fund Resource Library 56

NTEN

MARCH 2, 2010

So, we were particularly excited to see a session proposed for that very same conference on boosting returns for your events. And we were doubly pleased because the session focuses on data and data evaluation as a means to making it happen. (If First, you have to get the data. But don't be scared!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With diverse data sources, complex corporate giving programs , and stakeholder expectations on the rise, it’s no wonder that CSR directors are seeking advanced solutions. They use CSR software to streamline data collection, track progress, and ensure compliance with CSR goals and standards. These may come at an additional cost.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Association Analytics

MAY 25, 2021

When changing your AMS, you should also take time to determine what you really need to bring or else you could find yourself drowning in an unnecessary pile of (data) boxes. If you fall into this category, please resist the temptation to recreate all of the system and data integrations with your new AMS. A Better Approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Once the nonprofit has formulated goals and KPIs, then it is the right time to talk about collecting right data.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. Conduct an impact analysis and use it! Kristine Miller, Program Manager at Gonzaga University, s hared her experience utilizing their fundraising software to develop a data-driven, multi-channel approach to fundraising.

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Virtual Blackbaud Award Wisconsin 28

The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Step 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for Your Non-Profit Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is crucial for non-profits to understand the landscape they operate in and make informed decisions. Gather demographic data, such as age, location, income level, and specific challenges or needs they face.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In Part 2 , I covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

Nonprofits are preoccupied with writing what the funder wants to read or hear, and foundations are compliant with proposal templates that change little over years or even decades. Literally, put results first, whether in grant discussions and decisions, program design and analysis, or anything else. The first is compliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Think about how you feel when you have spent five hours writing a grant proposal only to have your computer crash and completely destroy your document. Technology experts offered their analysis (see the end of this article in the local San Antonio newspaper titled “ From Big Give to Big Crash “) Others offer their analysis.

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America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Through data, analysis, and training, the Foundation Center helps organizations and individuals research, identify, and connect with potential funding sources. Grant data includes recipient, amount, and other details on the grant itself. About the Foundation Center. Try Out the Foundation Directory Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. The proposed call agenda is here.

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