Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The Social Actions API attempts to address the distribution and syndication challenge while also encouraging nonprofits to make their actions more readily available. We have encountered a number of challenges over the years. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to? Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

AI analytics automates much of what a data analyst would do. Since nonprofit organizations usually have more data about donors than they know what to do with, AI analytics can be an efficient way to discover meaningful patterns within large datasets. Sentiment analysis. McKinsey’s data supports this idea. AI analytics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Such efforts are necessary to address global nutritional needs in a world facing the challenges of climate change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Digital fundraising professionals face a significant new challenge when it comes to fundraising on Facebook. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. from the University of Virginia.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Generative AI is more than a trend, it’s a pathway to redesign your workflows with a human-centric approach, freeing staff to take on greater challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And now that the 990s are released as open data by the IRS, it’s more important than ever to rethink the role of the 990 as a communication channel instead of just a compliance requirement. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. .

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) Google believes GA4 better predicts audience needs and provides better data.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In order to decide on this topic, we asked our community to submit challenges. Data Strategist, Grist. Clayton Aldern leads data journalism at Grist. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. Why Climate Justice? Clayton Aldern.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala. and the European Union.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

KD and I took frameworks from the book – the Data-Informed Nonprofit (Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Assessment) and 7 Steps of Measurement and then had David and Carie share how they have applied these to their organization’s measurement. How do we turn data into Insights? Some Ways To Visual Your Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

People’s Guide to AI: This comprehensive beginner’s guide to understanding AI and other data-driven tech explains AI-based technologies so that everyone—from youth to seniors, and from non-techies to experts—has the chance to think critically about what the technology can do. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. Some of the challenges we are seeing is increased need of food as we have added the middle class families as part of food insecurity not just the families in the poverty level.”. What Were The Results?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By speaking to the people directly impacted by your work, you can uncover issues with your programs, identify new opportunities, and better understand the challenges they face. This 2022 report features industry data, trends, analysis to help you better reach your donors. Do they have ideas on how you can improve?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, adding to the complexity right now are the economic challenges hitting every sector. When that happened, it became clear that the same skills were universally applicable, and the value in offering those skills became clear. The need for services is skyrocketing while sources of funding and resources are being hit.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

However, there’s no denying that this year and all of its challenges may have called for an adjustment to those plans. Collect data about year-end Facebook fundraising. Collect data about year-end Facebook fundraising. for future analysis. Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 4, 2011 Research Friday: "The Art of Data Interpretation" posted by Robert F. Resources are a huge challenge to any research effort. If our research is to be valid and useful, the design, data collection, and analysis must be meticulous and exacting. Ashcraft, Ph.D. Sources: ^ [1] Ryman, Anne.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . National University. Data and Knowledge Centers. Chief Data Officer. Millennium Challenge Corporation.

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Double the Donation

JANUARY 17, 2022

The company was founded in 2011 when Adam Weinger, Double the Donation’s President, was working at a major bank and made donations to his university, the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, and LLS. We aim to support a culture and environment where high performers feel challenged, are empowered, and want to work.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2013

For a data nerd like myself, this was refreshing, as the average citizen started to gain a new found respect for a set of skills that had always largely been viewed as the sausage making that decision makers weren’t necessarily interested in understanding. The area of analytics and data consumption is still evolving. Self-Taught.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Four methods to address the challenges of slim administrative budgets are: 1. Organizations need to properly report actual costs and then use this data to make the case to funders to support those full costs. Change the unrealistic expectations of contributors. She makes her home in Tucson.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

“Our volunteer program plays an important role in providing the MacEwan student body with much-needed resources, services, and programs that would otherwise be unattainable without the support and commitment of volunteers,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Through raw data collected from more than 2,700 nonprofit and development professionals from across the country and representing a cross-section of organizational structures, Underdeveloped illustrates the oftentimes challenging career tract of fundraising, particularly within smaller nonprofits. She earned a B.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Measurement Challenges. Data Analysis. What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? How do you analyze your social media data? Many feel the same as Craig Newmark. Respond here.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI processes information and makes decisions using algorithms and data. AI is only as objective as its programmers and its data. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Watch the donorCentrics® 2018 Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving featuring Shaun Keister, PhD, vice chancellor of the University of California-Davis, for the online presentation of the Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance. . As schools dig deeper into the data, they may also take this down another layer.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. We think it’s likely that we’ll see a successful pilot integration of EHR data with an external LMS in the next three years. IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Applying economic reasoning to the strategic questions that challenge any business, the authors reveal what real American small businesses can teach us beyond the bounds of most MBA programs or curriculum. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

Applying economic reasoning to the strategic questions that challenge any business, the authors reveal what real American small businesses can teach us beyond the bounds of most MBA programs or curriculum. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Applying economic reasoning to the strategic questions that challenge any business, the authors reveal what real American small businesses can teach us beyond the bounds of most MBA programs or curriculum. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Throughout the 3-day conference, industry experts, customers, and partners participating in the higher education track shared what the higher ed landscape looks like today, challenges, new opportunities, digital transformation, and more. . You can check out a recording of this interview on YouTube. ? .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Each of the presenters showcased apps that allow us to better share data and take personal action to further social benefit causes. Open Data San Francisco. Joy Bonaguro, chief data officer and Jason Lally, open data program manager, demonstrated the city's open data site features and highlighted opportunities for improvement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Manager of Curriculum Design & Innovation, ASU Lodestar Center Working as a nonprofit professional in the current economic environment can be challenging — and sometimes discouraging. Click here to read Dr. Mark Hagers analysis of current research on this topic. Bush, Ph.D. Central Ave.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. " A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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