3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Nonprofits everywhere are struggling to get their hands on reliable, useful workplace giving data from corporate giving programs. Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? Too many sources of donor data to keep track of. The data generated by the workplace has changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. So, I started to dig down and review the information country by country, continent by continent. It analyzes the percentage of total followers from countries, states, and cities. I shared the screen captures on my Facebook page.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2012

Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably. Data-driven storytelling is all the rage on the web, particularly as we move into the election season. ThinkShout.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Qriously is super easy to use: you pick the type of question (two answer, slider, or star/rating), write your question and possible answers, select the location (global, regional or local – if you get a trial account, you are limited to global questions), and then how many answers you want to gather. That’s it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

My Ocean , is a niche social network of more than 9000 divers and this guest post by Darren Barefoot describes some powerful outcomes for ocean conservation by bringing together several strategies: niche social network, crowdsourced data mapping, and deep engagement. For decades, scuba divers have been cleaning waterways.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Businesses deal with a lot of data, and analyzing it in its raw form is frequently difficult. Tableau is the most extensively used data visualization application. Informative Dashboards. Tableau Dashboards combine images, visual objects, text, and other components to present a comprehensive view of your data.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

of the total dollar value captured in the first 14 days of data collection. million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey. Candid will keep sharing news and data on philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake. To share your data, please email egrants@candid.org.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Geographic Information Systems are powerful tools nonprofits can use to achieve their missions. Beyond just mapping existing data, some GIS systems are working to incorporate ways for mobile smart phone and cell phone users to collect data and update maps. Do you use GIS systems in your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Worst case: The orphanage collapsed like all other concrete buildings in town and the locals might hesitate to dig out HIV infected bloody kids. Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. Tags: maps. Crisis Camps.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. You can start by sharing information and agreeing to work on something for a few short weeks or months. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment.

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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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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. .

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ It’s frequently challenging, and often impossible, to track progress on corporate pledges based on publicly available information. But not sharing this valuable information weakens philanthropy’s collective efforts. . billion dollars.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Feeling rather overwhelmed and clueless, I headed to the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL), where I was introduced to Dave Forsman, librarian extraordinaire and the lead for this location of Candid’s Funding Information Network. . It was such a relief to have access to this information! (It

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

" While you might think that it came from the satirical The Onion , it was actually a real headline from our local newspaper here in San Francisco. I'm not a criminologist, but being a curious data person, I wondered which bus stops historically recorded the most crimes. Gathering the Data. Crunching the Numbers.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? A Contest Built on City Data. It all came together when TechSoup Europe began talking to the city of Warsaw about opening up city data to citizens. Apps4Warsaw. The most popular datasets were the transportation datasets.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This article will introduce a few ways to think differently about your existing museum shop or mind-map for the future if you intend to open one. Read up on existing data about who is visiting your museum and/or carry out your own survey to help make informed inventory decisions. Do lots of families visit your museum?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore key tips to increase your patient acquisition rate: Use Patient Journey Mapping Keep a Pulse on Reviews Optimize for SEO Partner with a Digital Marketing Keep in mind that patient outreach is directly tied to patient outcomes. That said, let’s explore these tips in more detail.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

All on its own, your data can tell you amazing things about your work. Your data isn't meant to be consumed all by itself. Your work happens in a variety of contexts – the work of other organizations, the economy, and your local government, to name a few. Take, for example, housing data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. the amplifying of local campaigns defending the right to access web 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. I've always felt that maps are just plain cool. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Indirect Content.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I met Dave Forsman, librarian extraordinaire and the lead for this location of Candid’s Funding Information Network. . Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps quickly became two of my favorite tools. It was such a relief to have access to this information! (It

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Map Out Event Marketing Goals and Event Plan. You can then export that data into a CRM like Salesforce or Hubspot or an email marketing client like MailChimp. Market your website online or locally and drive potential attendees to your registration landing page. This way, your marketing plan is directed at that goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

But you can also see aggregated information about the voting process on Our Vote Live created by Election Protection , Lawyers’ Committee , NOI , and Ushahidi. It is mapping out all reported voting/election questions and incidences around the country. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. obama reach vs local reach. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. Feed digest.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

This contains things like technical information, event details and schedule, general tips, and team contact info. “ The top takeaway or learning moment from an email marketing perspective was that email is, and will most likely continue to be, the number one way to get information out to your donor base and promote the event.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. This method makes complex concepts easier for your stakeholders to understand and makes it easier to have more informed discussions on the next steps your organization should take. Be intimate with your data.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For community-based nonprofits, try searching for local employers that offer giving programs, like matching gifts or volunteer grants. Again, you may also want to look to other local nonprofits with similar causes. More often than not, companies want to give back to their communities by supporting worthy causes. .

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Everyaction

MAY 29, 2018

Earlier this month, I sat down with Executive Director, David Lee, to learn how Feeding Wisconsin mobilizes their audience, advocates to their local and federal officials, and engages with their community. Feeding Wisconsin works with affiliated agencies and 1,000 local food programs throughout the state.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Challenging economic conditions, finding reliable funding sources, local or federal regulations, and staffing challenges are all potential obstacles your new nonprofit could face on the road to getting up and running. Check your state’s secretary of state office website for more information. Legal services.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software. Mobile technologies can help people find shelter information in time of need. Government Agency Apps. Other Useful Apps.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Dd co-founder and executive director Emily Jacobi recently showcased some of Dd's projects at an event hosted by the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in Berkeley, California. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning.

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