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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By creating a script with pronunciation as well as a pre-recorded audio file, you’ll have a better chance of your PSA airing since you provided a variety of options. You’ll need to have the spot produced professionally if you don’t have someone on your team who can edit videos and provide at least a.mov or.mp4 file.

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

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For parents, it might mean shopping for supplies and mapping out carpool schedules. paper filings, Candid Seal of Transparency status, and the Philanthropy Classification System). But we often hear from researchers that they struggle to access the recent, affordable, high-quality data they need to understand the sector.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data

Candid

tax exempt nonprofit organizations must file various Forms 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) each year. Once Candid collects data from these sources, we clean, code, structure, and enhance the data to make it more accessible and useful. Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.” based foundations.

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

sgEngage

Data is everywhere—in every filing cabinet and software system—making it more critical than ever for schools and nonprofits to manage it properly and use that data to make more informed decisions. How are you collecting, storing, and accessing that data? Who should have access to that information? Do you have the right tools?

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What I Learned About Crime by Mapping It with Tableau

Tech Soup

Here's what I found, and I'll show you the steps I took in Tableau Desktop , available at TechSoup, to make the following map. All data analysis and visualization packages are able to read a CSV file. So I accessed the data using the "Export" function on the site. I started by connecting to the "Text File."

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10 Important Features of Tableau

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Tableau supports a wide range of data sources, including local files, spreadsheets, relational and non-relational databases, data warehouses, big data, and on-cloud data. For data connections and user access, it features a fail-safe security system based on authentication and authorization mechanisms. Availability of Maps.

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