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Come join Benchmarks 2022! Help us map the whole year in data.

M+R

We aggregate the numbers with other organizations so your specific dataset isn’t identifiable. Each edition of Benchmarks is only as good as our pool of participants—the more nonprofits who sign up, the more reliable and thorough the final study will be. That’s why we hope you’ll join the fun and sign up to participate today !

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Your organization’s aggregated or synthesized data is more like a complex carbohydrate that provides fuel for sustained activity. Next, there are some preliminary steps you—or your data guru—can take: Dedicate time to mapping your data flow. Data gives us context. Data Can Sustain and Support.

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Crisis Mapping in Haiti from Ushahidi, Donate by Texting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Tags: maps. Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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Video teaser: Candid’s brand-new, free training for funders

Candid

To give you a taste of the course, we’ve included a clip below on how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. For our next example, we’re going to learn how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. I’d like to use the Funding Map to identify other potential grantees, not already in our network.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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Webinar Recap: The Future of the Map

NTEN

Mapping data can help nonprofits monitor protests and election violence, decide where to buy repossessed homes to convert into affordable housing, determine how and where to deliver supplies and aid in disaster-stricken areas – and document zombie invasions. Do you use GIS systems in your work? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.

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