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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

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In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. Why we use the Foundation 1000 sets for trends analysis As illustrated in the chart above, the Foundation 1000s’ grantmaking is much more stable over time compared to the broader grant data set.

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Google Analytics and Benchmarks: HAWK

M+R

We have a couple of points of note around the transition from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to Universal Analytics (UA) and how that impacted the website data in Benchmarks this year, but first, for fun, an action item! This made the Benchmarks’ website data much more difficult to analyze. Give it a read here !

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

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2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets. Analysis tip: The increased size of Candid’s grants data during the period from 2013-2015 shouldn’t be conflated with an increase in giving by donors. government agencies ii.

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

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Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Organization’s Donation Website. In his four-part analysis, Robinson leveraged a combination of human-guided machine learning, clustering techniques, and corpus-based similarity analysis drawn from long standing semantic similarity and information retrieval research.

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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit? 

Whole Whale

Website : Looker.com – Google Cloud Rebrands Data Studio As “Looker Studio” What is it ? Website : [link] – Google Cloud Rebrands Data Studio As “Looker Studio” What is it? Website : Tableau.com. Website : [link]. Website : [link]. Data Studio. What is it? What is it? What is it?

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

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. Descriptive data improves the quality of the research and enables analysis that identifies gaps in funding and critical needs.

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How Does Your Content Compare? Tips for Improving Click-Through & Conversion Rates

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Nonprofits have become more sophisticated at driving traffic to their websites. What happens, though, when visitors arrive at your website? With so much emphasis on getting visitors to your website, do you know what motivates them to take that final step? Direct mail may use different friendly URLs to test response rates.

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