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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

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In fact, about 1,000 nonprofits are now adding demographic data to their Candid profiles every month. The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. nonprofits voluntarily share demographic data through their profile. For example, U.S.

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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

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Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems. Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? How are you using each piece of data you collect from your grantees?

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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Four Resources Nonprofits Should Check Out

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For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. My newest post is now up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. What do you think?