3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Let me offer one piece of advice: let’s not get distracted by the story and instead focus on the epilogue – the Ice Bucket Epilogue: it’s about the data. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September. It’s all about the data. Turning data to donor relationships.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. Tools and channels that house data often do not make it easy to navigate. Not sure how to compare or connect data sources. Does this sound familiar?

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How do you know when your organization is storing and using too much data? In fact, being in the nonprofit data services business, we get asked lots of questions about how to obtain more donor data, better data, the right data. Few customers ask us “When is there too much data?” Too much data.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. More fundraising software = more data headaches. Second, nonprofits are not littered with technology experts and data scientists.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

What about access to great data that helps us to understand the outcomes being produced by our programs and to know our donors and their interests better? Isn’t all this technology and data helping? Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. Step one is to recognize the problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This analysis can help guide you towards what best engages your target audiences. If you are incorporating new ideas into this year’s fundraising efforts, use this data to make some predictions about how you can best motivate your audiences into action. What are those that might have missed the mark—and why? 2) Review Your Goals.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Understanding data is critically important to success in any business. Unfortunately, data can be boring, even confusing. Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. While that’s understandable, it is also a big problem. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal?

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Attention Data Donor Retention 157

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley. But can Big Data also create positive social change?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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 second project,?

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Donation Language Homeless Statistics 137

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns. An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. Start with getting enough sleep.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Ok, first of all, you may be asking, what is a Tech Discovery?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd! The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Predictive Analytics : Evaluate historical data to build stronger future strategies, construct SWOT analysis, engage in scenario planning , and develop objective rationales for future initiatives. Make them think you’re reading their minds.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We then ran the following studies using this data. We then compared how that emotional polarity score interacted with the organizations’ financial data. . An Exploratory Analysis of Nonprofit Mission Statements , we ran a different kind of analysis. -based nonprofits from Candid that serve the homeless population.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. She is a futurist and avid consumer of the latest research, data, and provocative insights from industry thought leaders. Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue. Could the issue be trust?

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Data is the key, as it is in all things related to your fundraising outreach. After all, strong donor data can tell you what areas to focus on, how to engage donors more relevantly, and what changes you should make to improve results in the future. And one that only your nonprofit’s data can answer. Using a custom bit.ly

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recent data from the global consulting firm Spencer Stuart shows that 98% of S&P 500 boards conduct a board evaluation of some type, although only about a third review the board as a whole, individual directors, and committees as part of the process. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 Those extremely specific goals kept us on target.”

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 251

Candid

JUNE 7, 2022

This is not a pipeline problem. To this end, ABFE and Candid are engaging in a multi-year partnership that leverages Candid’s data collections and ABFE’s subject matter expertise to explore Black leadership in the social sector. This report will examine what philanthropic funding has looked like for HBCUs over the last two decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Empathy, or the quality that baffled Star Trek’s Mr. Data, will continue to be lacking in his real-world counterparts. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 17, 2024

(Special thanks to Eric Antebi from the California Health Care Foundation for this one Bigger is Different The high-level lesson across these stories is that bigger is different and that data/plastic from the past doesn’t just disappear. Fore example, here is just one guide to how to trick a GPT store model into releasing its training data.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the heart of every effective Salesforce implementation lies a good data strategy. Its AI can simply help make an organization’s data more accessible, more relevant, and more actionable than ever before – all with the safeguards that make for responsible AI use. All this is just the start, however.

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Language Generation Analysis Data 59

Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows.

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Adopt Strategy Skills Job 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world. They are displayed here using new data visualization tool called Google Fusion Tables technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. Why this resource?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I went to cover one session, “ Building An Information Infrastructure: Unlocking Data for Philanthropy.” 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. Fdns use 3-yr old data to make 5-yr plans.Is Why are we using data that is 3 years old? Notes from Session.

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Philanthropy Global Data Indonesia 101

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

The Analysis Exchange is a first-of-its-kind effort to freely provide analytical insights to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end. What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. Source: Monitor Institute.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

During my 7 year tenure at NTEN, I''ve had the pleasure of looking at a lot of data, and figuring out ways to use that data in strategic ways to drive the organization and our community forward. As they''d say on "How I Met Your Mother", that was a problem for "Future NTEN".

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NetWits

APRIL 23, 2012

There’s one problem though. How do you solve the problem of building your website for the wrong audience? Audience analysis. Here are four steps you can take to ensure you perform proper audience analysis: 1. Here are four steps you can take to ensure you perform proper audience analysis: 1. Identify Your Audience.

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Websites Analysis Audience Design 253

Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Based on the data we were able to collect from news sources, funder websites, and from funders directly , we issued two reports with our partners at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to help the sector make sense of its collective response. First, it’s important to note that this analysis is based on U.S.

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Grant United States Analysis Data 59

sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have heaps of data. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen.

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