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

Candid

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions.

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Data Digest — Maps, Trends, and a Social Progress Index

Tech Soup

This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems. Open Source philanthropy data open data big data maps Social Progress Index' on NetSquared.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis.

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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking. What's out that?

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Twitanalytics?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. It looks like a mapping tool in the works that will let you visualize your Twitter network by retweets from Dan Zarrella. (hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.