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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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Confirmation bias is the tendency to place the greatest value on information that supports your pre-existing beliefs. Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive. Automating data exploration frees time to focus on higher-level analysis and interpretation of results.

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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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6 Annual reports to inspire your organization

EveryAction

To have an effective annual report, you’ll need to make sure it’s informative, emotionally moving , and empowering. In fact, you can customize your annual report to only include the information relevant to what your donors and prospective supporters want to know. Annual report essentials. Pathfinder International. The Humane Society.

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Have grantmaker salaries kept up with inflation?  

Candid

year-over-year in June 2022—the highest rate in over 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—we asked foundations how inflation would affect their operations. But without more information from decision makers at those organizations, we can only speculate. As the consumer price index rose 9.1%

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. For our first project,?

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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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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. Once we had that information, we applied a statistical method called exploratory factor analysis to uncover themes that might be present in the data set. Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve?

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