Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Guatemalan Attorney General’s office summoned Guzmán to present evidence based on his analysis of random samples drawn from the millions of documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archive. Guzmán and his colleagues at Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group spent four years intensely analyzing the documents.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

2010 Online Giving Trends | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog: "Blackbaud released its 2010 Online Giving Report today.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The report combines findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data to provide the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. 54% of the organizations in the analysis experienced results at or above this growth rate. compared to the same time period in 2010.

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Trend Online Giving Analysis 79

NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs.

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Dominican Republic Issue NTEN Impact 88

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

“Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Ask the following questions: Why should the program scale up? Who is involved? How should the program expand?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2010

Get a preview in our chat together: If you're still kind of scared of pivot tables, Mark and I also talked about putting some data analysis sessions together, so stay tuned! If, like me, you don't know what those pivot table thingies are all about, Mark is going to break down for you nice and slow. .

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Don't let the phrase "geographic gap analysis" turn you off: it's just another tool in your search for new donors. The release of the 2010 census data means the time is ripe for just such an analysis. By forming a geographic profile of your current supporters, you can find regions under-represented in your constituency.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending August 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland. Miller Foundation in Portland, Oregon, shared a cautionary tale explaining her hard-won lessons learned about the 990-PF.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

These aren’t necessarily the same organizations we included in our write-up last year; this analysis compares two years of data for these 14 groups. So without further ado, here’s the scoop: A lot more money – Every organization in this data set raised more money in 2011 than they did in 2010.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. An analysis of the past 36 months of online giving continues to show positive growth despite challenging economic conditions. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009. Year-Over-Year Growth Trends.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 82

sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Blackbaud Statistics Trend Offline 48

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending July 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.” Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact.

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sgEngage

JUNE 16, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending April 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Blackbaud Haiti Trend Disaster 51

NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

I don't know enough statistical analysis to tell you how many possible combinations you could work into AdWords, but I suspect it's a lot. Series Sessions Include: Setting Your Organization Up for Success with Your Google Grant (01/14/2010). Learning How to Use Your Google Grant (01/21/2010). It's 25 characters long!

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Adwords Google Grant Beginner 69

sgEngage

JULY 17, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending May 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Blackbaud Trend Statistics Analysis 48

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis, and link it back to decisions. Do only numbers matter? Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. An analysis of the past 36 months of online giving continues to show positive growth despite challenging economic conditions. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009. Year-Over-Year Growth Trends.

Haiti 68

Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

While Tides had previously produced annual reports that included the usual suspects – descriptions of initiatives, programs and client portfolio, bullet-point statistics and highlights, and financials – we wanted to push our analysis further by looking at our work in greater contexts and through different lenses. Where did those grants go?

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Case Study Story Data Studies 68

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. iMIS rounded out the bottom four.)

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending June 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Blackbaud Statistics Trend Offline 44

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) released a 2010 Arizona Giving Report earlier this year. Our analysis of 2008 IRS data indicates that individual Arizona taxpayers donated an estimated $3.87

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010. Do you create educational material? Do you put on local activities? Email Communication. Staggering.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

While it does not yet amount to the bulk of fundraising for most nonprofits, online giving grew by 13 percent from 2010 to 2011. The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations. Remember, audience analysis should be a key part of your online strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. That part looks very interesting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

These data sources include (but are not limited to) the IRS, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Foundation Center, the S&P 500 Index, historical trends in itemized giving, and personal income tax rates. ASU Lodestar Center's Arizona Giving and Volunteering 2010 report, pg. over 2010, which increased by 2.7% over 2009.

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Research Arizona Philanthropy Foundation 75

NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. One can evaluate training effectiveness, learner’s preferences, and usage patterns through analysis and visualizing software, Tin Can and other analytics tools. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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Online Learning Trend Learning Online 56

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We have compiled this list through interviews with public- and private-sector leaders; analysis of initiatives, organizations and government programs; reviews of industry and mainstream news coverage; and submissions from thousands of online participants."

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Web Bookmarking Philanthropy Open Source 105

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I think that seeing decision making and action as a cyclical process that begins (and ultimately ends) with preparation and analysis forces leaders to find a good rhythm that has them constantly moving through the loop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010. How do you analyze your social media data? Come join us in the Zoetica Salon.

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