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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. Again, we take measures to make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and non-identifiable in the final study. All-caps bold important.

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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.

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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

Specifically, the award will stock a cash reserve to alleviate fluctuations in funding, enable the development of technology security measures to protect users of Ushahidi, and allow Ushahidi plan strategically for the next phase of their growth.

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5 Tips for Effective Healthcare Grantmaking

sgEngage

Measure your outcomes and tell your story. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors.

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Tools for Nonprofits to Effectively Manage and Analyze Their Data

Forum One

These “data-piping” tools allow you to connect to a myriad of cloud-based services and data sources, extract data in real-time, map and transform this data, and then move it to a cloud-based data store (which is the next “layer” in our modern data stack). Tools we recommend at this stage include Looker , Superset , Mode , and Metabase.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. Qriously could be used to test different messages and groups to measure where responses are strongest.

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Experts Weigh In: Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Government

Forum One

Alexis: The state of Hawaii mapped its infrastructure, with overlays of potential climate impacts and considerations of vulnerable populations, allowing them to run scenarios and test hypotheses for different preparedness measures. What’s a recent project that illustrates the value of AI or ML to you?