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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

Confirmation bias is the tendency to place the greatest value on information that supports your pre-existing beliefs. Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive. But when the stakes are high, data is the knife that cuts through preconceptions to uncover the objective truth.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. We think that this is important and valuable.

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6 Annual reports to inspire your organization

EveryAction

To have an effective annual report, you’ll need to make sure it’s informative, emotionally moving , and empowering. In fact, you can customize your annual report to only include the information relevant to what your donors and prospective supporters want to know. Pathfinder International. The Humane Society.

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Have grantmaker salaries kept up with inflation?  

Candid

year-over-year in June 2022—the highest rate in over 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—we asked foundations how inflation would affect their operations. But without more information from decision makers at those organizations, we can only speculate. As the consumer price index rose 9.1%

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Using Music and Data to Measure Impact and Wellbeing

Saleforce Nonprofit

The Salesforce ecosystem is an intelligent receptacle of information where we input data, and, in turn, we get recommendations on ways to be more efficient and make our customers’ journeys more engaging. But what if we could move beyond that and use the power of connected data clouds to directly change lives?

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! For our first project,?

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

Candid

Featuring 40% more compensation data compared to last year’s report on 14 top leadership positions—including CEO, CFO, and more. Candid’s team also added 21 new metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to the report this year to allow for greater geographic comparisons.