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Early guidance on Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter

M+R

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in November 2022, we’ve seen so many platforms come and go as potential alternatives. Hesitations, for good measure Of course, it’s still a Meta app – which means Mark Zuckerberg controls Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. But we think Threads has staying power.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

Alternatively, when boards take a more collaborative approach to these duties, working together with staff, they can help advance the organization’s mission and vision. In some organizations, a top-down hierarchical structure dominates, with board members exerting control over decision-making processes and stifling innovation among staff.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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

Candid

Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

sgEngage

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. The root causes of marginalization that are exacerbated by disasters are often mired in systems and structures that are historically racist and exploitative.

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Planning a Fundraising Event? You Need a Plan B.

Greater Giving

Preparing a solid event alternative doesn’t have to cost time and money. Now you have the structure already in place to bring remote guests into the atmosphere of giving. Video can act as a critical backup measure for unplanned absences or quick transitions to online-only. So what’s your backup plan? You Need a Plan B.