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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

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As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing. As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. This fall, a year into my master’s program, I started an internship on Candid’s communications team.

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

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You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules.

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Unlocking change: Free access to Candid’s nonprofit resources

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Sample documents and reference materials : Gain inspiration from a collection of sample grant proposals, letters of inquiry, project budgets, and other documents for making your case to funders. Grants to Individuals : Students can use this resource to find grants intended to reduce student debt.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like. They were students of Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types. That’s a simplified example, but it’s the kind of idea that woke me up.” The MBTI can illuminate group dynamics.

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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

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There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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Who, Where, What, and Why? Data Management in K–12 Schools

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The Student Information System, accounting system, and fundraising CRM all contain critical data points. There are many areas in which data can help influence our decision-making, from supporting academic initiatives that drive student outcomes to budget allocation and donor engagement strategies.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

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The phenomenon of our shrinking school-aged population is well documented. The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. The cost of recruiting undergraduate students increased by 32% for private institutions in just two years.