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Unlock the Power of Maps to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising

The Fundraising Authority

Uncover the Benefits of Maps for Nonprofit Fundraising. When we use images that are based on real data and facts, our story, and more importantly – our conclusions – become self-evident. Maps are one of the most powerful tools available to nonprofits when it comes to creating compelling visual stories.

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Mapping Your Data Strategy Cannot Wait

NonProfit PRO

The risks of putting it off are too significant: you lose funding due to an inability to meet reporting requirements.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge.

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Using Service Design to Map Your Digital Ecosystem

Forum One

Two of our most used service design activities are ecosystem mapping and service blueprinting. Ecosystem mapping is a visual representation of all the components of an ecosystem, physical or digital, while service blueprinting creates a visual representation of a journey from both the “front stage” and “backstage” perspectives.

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Candid Data for Academics: Go back to school with better data 

Candid

For parents, it might mean shopping for supplies and mapping out carpool schedules. At Candid, it means thinking about how we can get more data into the hands of academic researchers for the betterment of the social sector. However, we know that many researchers don’t have the resources to purchase a custom data set. nonprofits.

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Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data

Candid

In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.” These forms are a primary source of data about U.S. These forms are a primary source of data about U.S. Many of the largest U.S.

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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. Machine learning is most likely being used to help with the data coding and categorization in the underlying databases.

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