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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., as measured by total giving.

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Putting Your Twitter Followers on the Map, Literally

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cindy Leonard asked a great question: How come you don’t have any followers in Washington state? Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global.

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Making Data Engaging: Designing The Nation's Report Card (Part 1)

Forum One

In early November, you might have seen headlines such as this one, from the Washington Post: “ U.S. Take a look behind the curtain on this exciting project to learn how NAEP worked with the Forum One team to reimagine this project and make The Nation''s Report Card more accessible than ever. Influence Data & Visualizations'

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score.

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CLEAR Training in Washington, DC - Social Media and Mobile Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was great to do at a Spitfire session and discuss how social media integrates with the Smart Chart. CLEAR Training: Social Media Strategy View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. Pete Stauffer. The good folks at The Port Network had emailed me about an extra NTEN Membership and I raffled it off at the end of the session.

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We've Built The Tools You Need for 2018

Everyaction

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. Often, this means settling for (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint, but no more!

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. USA for UNHCR (my client) is a 501(c)(3) headquartered in Washington, D.C. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?