Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

Are you targeting them with information that’s valuable and pertinent to them? For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates. One proven method of addressing literacy—especially in children with learning challenges—is approaching reading as a science. How are you engaging your members?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before we dive in, we want you to start thinking of data as one of your most important assets. Of course, they are valuable assets, but data is, too. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. What do you think about our data?

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2023

Elimination of data silos. Data silos can hurt your association causing outdated information, a reporting breakdown, security issues, and a disjointed member experience. But when you leverage modern technology, you can easily avoid data silos. Become a data-driven organization. An increase in staff retention.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Reading financial statements, analyzing data, reviewing the Form 990 before it’s filed, approving policies related to conflicts of interest, tapping into reserves, and conducting internal audits might not light your fire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds. My Nonprofit Needs a Data Nerd and How to Find Them! That’s why I’m sharing the tips, tricks, and insider advice to transform you into a data nerd.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! We welcome your comments and feedback. You serve on a nonprofit board of directors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work. and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Set Up Better Data Collection Standards and Regularly Audit Them. They depend on the quality of the data collected in their donor management system. Duplicate addresses, missing data, and outdated contact preferences can hinder your ability to connect with your donors. Here’s what they told us: 1.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

In today’s world, there are plenty of tech options, processes, and formulas to implement and manage data. However, not all associations are at the same point in their data strategy journey. Together, we’ll explore how to implement this framework, step by step, so that your organization can move forward on your data strategy journey.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Data Policy Nonprofit Literacy 36

Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The State of Babies Yearbook is an annual report that provides a narrative of the data collected on the developmental needs of babies and toddlers that is shared with policymakers and caregivers to inform legislation and improve outcomes for babies and toddlers. Urban Institute Ed Data Portal. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. An effective event registration page can also help you collect the right information from attendees to further your connection with your supporters.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. Essentially, big data is not consistent. Nonprofits: Up for the Privacy Challenge.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. Set Your Fundraising Goal Use data from past campaigns to establish your fundraising goal and identify potential donors. Be realistic.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are three tools I created or co-authored that can help you match skills to roles: Nonprofit Data & Tech Skill-Building Checklist — a worksheet that provides an inventory of technology and data-related skills and a way to rate your skills or those of a team member or job candidate. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

The formula for Writing Great GPT Prompts The best formula for getting unique responses from GPT tools involves a combination of effective prompts, customized settings, adding contextual data, and iterative experimentation. Data : Here is a list of XYZ’s services and a recent email to customers {data}.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Many of today’s nonprofits have a lot of data on constituents but few strategies for what to do with it. The donor data you have is only as good as how it’s organized. Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. Selection bias was one of Patrick's core scientific topics: the tendency of humans to believe that the information they get represents the big picture. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! Don’t get me wrong: I love writing my updates. While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Reports produced from larger outfits like M+R and NextAfter , who have access to research from hundreds and thousands of nonprofits, can also help inform your nonprofit digital strategy. . As the fundraiser, it’s imperative you work closely with marketing and IT staff to ensure you’re always working from the best and most current data.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous. If you don’t have a data governance strategy , a technology assessment can be a good way to launch this process. You may discover that some staffers aren’t benefiting from the data at their fingertips because they need additional training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Matt is a research and information technology executive with key competencies in measurement and analytics, business process engineering and optimization, product development, and organizational management. First off, in terms of metrics, you need to be very clear in your own mind as to what the exact intended end use of that data will be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. How do you do it?

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Skills Facebook Literacy Metrics 108

Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

An organization could segment their donor data to follow that structure, narrowing the criteria as a donor gives more. Some of your more analytic donors may prefer hard data. An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This budget should include the cost of the assessment itself, such as any consulting fees, as well as the cost of investing in software optimizations (new software, data hygiene efforts, etc.). If your nonprofit has an internal information technology (IT) team, that team can lead the project. Build your team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s secure software application, I travel to many countries where human rights defenders need tools to gather, organize and back up information about human rights violations. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp’s goal is to leave you informed and inspired, ready to take on any challenge. It is his mission to help clients transform their data into strategy and provide an integrated approach that blends creativity with technological sophistication. We are excited to announce the Cause Camp 2021 speaker line-up!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? A more informative place to look is Facebook’s white paper. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion tslibraryorg digital literacy'

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

VisionLink is a strong supporter of AIRS standards (the certifying body for 2-1-1 operations), and was in the fact the first to endorse and to deploy XML based data exchange standards used to move resource information among compliant software providers. For more information, please visit www.211us.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information. The ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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