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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

Candid

For example, the charts below (also included in the manual) illustrate how complete the data is across different staffing levels and demographic questions. This total excludes organizations that skipped all questions or responded “unknown” or “decline to state” in all cases.

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Use Engagement Scores to Point Your Members in the Right Direction

Association Analytics

As you look at the data in aggregate, do so for both members and non-members to get a big picture of engagement behavior. Use aggregate scores to validate and improve member value. This will help you answer the questions, “Are we on the right track?” “Are Start by looking at your data from a wide lens.

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Top 6 Reasons to Focus on Recurring Donations for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even though monthly donors generally give smaller amounts on a per gift basis, the aggregate amount that they give over the course of a year almost always adds up to more. Recurring donors are over five times more valuable to your nonprofit than one-time donors, according to The State of Modern Philanthropy.

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How to Start Your Data Analytics Journey

Association Analytics

The team at Association Analytics often hears questions like, What exactly is data analytics? To help answer these questions, we’ve laid out some helpful tips on how to get started and where to go from there. What questions are you trying to answer with analytics? Why is it important? First: Reporting vs. Analytics.

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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

We asked several interesting poll questions to open the event, and the wrapped with a Q&A session. Unfortunately, we could not answer all questions before the event closed. As always, if you have questions about a donor data migration project, or any of your nonprofit data needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Mentors can contact new directors before the meeting to review the agenda, discuss norms for behavior, and answer questions that might be awkward in a more public setting. Excellent performance comes from boards that aggregate ideas to move forward with their collective best thinking. Create Synergy.

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Surveys: Collect and Act on Your Data in 2021 and Beyond

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Some questions to consider before conducting a survey include: Why are we conducting a survey? What question are we trying to answer? Once you know your survey’s raison d’etre , you can move forward in designing a survey instrument (also known as “the questions”). These types of questions tend to be ranking questions (e.g.,

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