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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

We review the flurry of news stories, press releases, and announcements, and we actively search websites to identify and record grantmaking data. We also made the data publicly available through special issue pages about the war in Ukraine and coronavirus , where users can access the data, alongside news stories and additional resources.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Passionate explaining of impact?

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

ASU Lodestar Center

If our research is to be valid and useful, the design, data collection, and analysis must be meticulous and exacting. Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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grist.org: Measuring Along the Ladder of Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Source: grist.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

See3

Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm. .&# Link to the original story. … sucks.