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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Even more importantly, what motivates them. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. How old are they?

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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

Tech Soup

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

NTEN

In other cases, organizations produce statistics and indicators at the exclusion of "soft" data to convey a sense of business responsibility, pressured by the demand for nonprofit accountability to mirror for-profit financial statements. In June, Tides partnered with Rhiza on a data mapping pilot using their Insight software.

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How to forecast fundraising risk before your walkathon stalls

3rd Sector Labs

A little mining and analysis will reveal if your data is complete on your most loyal donors. For team-building events, break down and map the donations by those aforementioned degrees of separation. Now map your donor data from Step 1 to your donations in Step 2. A word about donor retention statistics.

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Nonprofit-Centric Data Sharing Sites

NTEN

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

It can be tough to find the right balance between information and overload. 2018’s impact report emphasizes impact with strong, but inviting fonts, and 2019’s report doubles down on that theme with a high contrast black, blue and white color scheme to deliver information via sleek graphics. Girls Who Code. We think that’s a win-win!

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