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The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap  

Candid

tax-exempt organizations file annually, are a major source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the United States. For one, busy and understaffed organizations are requesting filing extensions—the IRS expects roughly 762K tax-exempt extensions for fiscal year 2022. Case in point: 990 data. IRS Form 990s, which U.S.

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3 Visual Design Tips to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Website

Get Fully Funded

For example, blue is often associated with trust, red is tied to immediacy, and yellow is associated with optimism. It can also be helpful to incorporate colors that are associated with your cause to increase visibility. Think through your values and which colors would best represent these.

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Safe by Design: How to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Byte Technology

Thanks to the popularity of the WordPress platform, the associated community of designers and supporters are always coming up with new ways to beef up the security of the content management system for all users. If you see a link pointing to the file you’ve created, directory browsing is enabled. Disable it by adding to your “.htaccess”

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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

Many have been subtly lurking for years as features in productivity suites: tools that search for colleague-related emails, files, and meetings, or those that suggest design elements in presentation software. We can examine terms of service and privacy implications associated with different AI tools, and share the results in a common rubric.

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How to Show Visual Impact on Your Online Donation Forms

Qgiv

The associated image should be of a happy, recovering animal. You should also run images through an image optimizer to reduce their file size. Alternatively, you can look up “image optimizer” for a few other sites. Let’s look at some examples: Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance. Run your images through an image optimizer.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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DIY Nonprofit Technology: 4 Steps for Measuring ROI on Your Next Tech Project

NTEN

What are costs of alternatives? This step is the one most commonly associated with "measuring ROI," but looking at costs goes beyond the price of purchase or implementation. First, capture the basic costs associated with implementing the technology. What are the associated costs if you continue in your current environment?

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