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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Here at Candid, we’ve been tracking those statistics for the last 12 years as part of our GlassPockets initiative to champion greater transparency in philanthropy. What that statistic means is that for 90% of foundations, the 990-PF is often the only means for communicating their work. Open Data Defined.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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Nail Online Giving With These Tips and Tools

Get Fully Funded

DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving. When a project reaches its funding goal, the company purchases all related classroom materials and ships the items to the school. Non-profits can create and customize branded donation and event registration pages.

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The International Computer Refurbisher Summit: Strenghthen Your Affordable Tech Program

Tech Soup

How Better Data can Increase Donations presented by Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms, Chico, California. Identifying common missteps/holes in the data destruction process by Michael Cheslock of Destruct Data. Secondary PC Markets Statistics and Trends by Susan Smith from Microsoft.

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The International Computer Refurbisher Summit: Strengthen Your Affordable Tech Program

Tech Soup

How Better Data can Increase Donations presented by Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms, Chico, California. Identifying common missteps/holes in the data destruction process by Michael Cheslock of Destruct Data. Secondary PC Markets Statistics and Trends by Susan Smith from Microsoft.

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2011 NTC Preview: A Scientist in Your Communications Department: Segmenting Messages, Customizing Content and Delivering Results

NTEN

You may also have access to information such as birthdate, gender, or marital status as part of your existing data collection. Using the example above, you could try saying: “Jane, did you know that the $187 dollars you raised last week for the Walk will support 3 hours of classroom programs about healthy eating choices ?

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

Segmenting data, what does that mean and what are some of the ways we might do that. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. We can’t go into what data systems or, you know, what fields to use until we know, “What do we want to track?”

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