sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Universal Participation : Everyone must be able to use and re-use the data without restrictions against any persons or groups. Once consumed, the data can be used to build statistical analyses , make comparisons, and draw conclusions, all without ever needing to speak with anyone from the foundation. What kinds of use cases are there?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . Alternatively, you can prepare your grants information using this template. With wildfires posing an increasing threat in the U.S.,

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Reading and understanding these reports can be difficult for many board members, but there is so much important information there that great board members must learn to understand them so they can be real agents of change on the boards they join. The more information you capture, the more you need dimensions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

Because we survey organizations involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year, the information contained in the survey analysis reports (which are free) is current, and catches the tide changes and zeitgeist of grantseeking as they happen. You can click here to see past reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

How people think and process information are one set of theories that include multiple intelligences , learning styles , and constructivism. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Before the advent of simple survey software, which leveled the playing field, surveys were run by businesses and organizations large enough to have a statistical department or a partnership with a university. What is your success rate in comparison with others in your mission focus/sector? What you know is very important.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Here’s how: Recency: We survey grantseekers, grant writers, and those involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year (spring and fall). That means that the information contained in the survey analysis report (which is free) is current, and catches the tide changes and zeitgeist of grantseeking as they happen.

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Survey Grant Comparison Analysis 56

Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

It’s a tool that holds all of your information about your donors and their interactions with your organization. It’s the component that fuels the CRM by providing it with information that can personalize communications. Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Raiser's Edge NXT Pricing Information. See a comparison of other fundraising software available through TechSoup. Find out about free online fundraising and other nonprofit capacity-building courses available through Philanthropy University. The service is geared to mid-sized and large nonprofits. Image by Blackbaud.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 13, 2024

Training Courses and Materials from Blackbaud Online Training Opportunities Blackbaud offers a variety of online training options for each of their product offerings as part of Blackbaud University. With Universal Learning, your team can access basic training videos that are available on-demand through Blackbaud University.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2018

If you want to make change, you need to find ways to translate information into action. Information does not organically spawn organizational will to change. Sometimes being a writer and speaker--raising awareness--can feel risky and fragile in comparison. Organizational will does not magically morph to behavior change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. Peter Durand did the graphic recording (read his blog for more information about the process - AlphaChimp Studio). All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Communicate with your fans regularly just to stay in touch or with special news, offers and information. Stanford University. By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. Stand up 2 Cancer. Red Cross Fan Page. One Campaign.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

As a point of comparison, the U.S. In many cases, we are not dealing with unknowable or unsolvable mysteries of the online giving universe. Can you balance quantitative and qualitative information? Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Is this information truly useful to them? Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Give your audience a real-life comparison to your statistic so they can grasp it immediately.”.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I didn't choose Share Alike because I know that many museums, universities, and organizations are not able to use CC licenses (and thus would not be able to redistribute the content). I felt like I was preparing for a wedding, learning arcane information I would only use for a brief, intense window of time. respectively.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Is this information truly useful to them? Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Give your audience a real-life comparison to your statistic so they can grasp it immediately.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

They display information that is changing on a regular basis. They rely heavily on gauges or other data visualization displays to convey information in readily understandable formats. These display detailed information about a particular area of an organization’s operations. 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The coalition includes the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , GuideStar USA , the Foundation Center , the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics , the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Blackbaud. The 34 page report contains a lot of information across a broad range of questions.

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Collaboration Research Report Indiana 75

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

When I could not find up to date lists containing this type of information, I figured the first step would be to gather it myself. Thousands of nonprofit organizations (excluding universities) are reviewed in a preliminary screening to determine if their statistics are competitive enough to be ranked. World Food Program USA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. Jacob Shapiro of Princeton University, presents a parallel argument.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Others argue that under the Freedom of Information Act, they must release the data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The Pew/Elon University prediction is non-partisan, however, and is based on the views of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

I did a quick scan of data visualization resources to look for practical advice on the process of thinking visually and some technical information on what chart to select and data storytelling. Order bars by value to make comparison easier. Here’s what I discovered. (1) Always extend bar charts to zero baseline.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others. As part of Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service's evolution, they released a universal system that connected actions made in a game to achievements and points that are awarded to the player.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Technorati ???Authority???

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Wrote a book on brandraising, which is really awesome, and has got kind of a newish book right here, “Nonprofit Communications Engine,” which is you’re going to get a little bit of the book information today too. There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

Let's use the power of information technology to fix this problem. Publication of aggregate data by school system, allowing comparison by system or state for each condition so everyone can see which systems are seeing the best outcomes and what treatments they are using at what levels. Update research and re-disseminate, etc.

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Education Service Project Children 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The combined forces of smartphones, mobile broadband, and location-aware applications will connect us in more meaningful ways to the people, organizations, events, information, and companies that matter most to us—namely, those within a physical proximity of where we live and where we are.

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