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Bursting at the seams: Candid’s largest nonprofit compensation report yet  

Candid

Candid’s team also added 21 new metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to the report this year to allow for greater geographic comparisons. This allowed us to produce the most complete analysis of fiscal year 2021 and illuminate the continued impact that 2020 had on the sector.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets.

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What 2020 year-end fundraising can tell us about 2021 

M+R

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. And boy, were there some outliers this year.

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“Survey Says” VS. Research

Achieve

To create and launch a survey is relatively inexpensive in comparison to a multi-phase research study. Unfortunately, available funding is a reality when considering whether to deploy a simple survey or to construct a robust research study. However, don’t let a thin budget detour you from selecting the appropriate tools.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger. Laura Whitehead.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pattern Analysis . You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, some comparisons of the pros/cons between Facebook and Myspace policies and the larger organizational policy issue related to embracing Web2.0 Here's a sampling: Notes Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America, We had this same situation happen a couple weeks ago. social networking sites.

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