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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

Candid

This shift was marked by commitments of increased funding, greater flexibility in grantmaking practices, and a focus on social and economic systems transformation. The report, citing Candid data, exposed vast funding disparities, with just 0.2% of philanthropic funding going to support AAPI communities.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. Role of Foundations in the movement.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. Cities have unlocked the data on when public transit runs and to where, making bus and subways easier to catch than ever before.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

Komen Foundation had decided to de-fund breast health screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. It was harder to communicate than, “Screw Komen, fund Planned Parenthood” and it’s unclear how successful we were in explaining the shift and making the message clear. An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street.

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Trends in Sustainer Giving – Key Findings from the 2019 donorCentrics Sustainer Summit

Connection Cafe

This year’s summit included 35 large nonprofit organizations that participate in our sustainer program benchmarking to review aggregate program performance, trends and challenges affecting sustainer giving. Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7 billion in FY2018.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. and everything we do.

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