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From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

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Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. While this data holds immense potential to improve decision-making and maximize impact, harnessing its power can be a challenge. Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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3 Strategies To Elevate Your Association’s Impact in the New Year

Association Analytics

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. Make it easy – Don’t put unnecessary barriers in front of members like having different departments ask members the same question, multiple times.

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The Power of Learning Analytics: Maximizing the Impact of Your Education Programs

Association Analytics

In the fast-paced world of online education, understanding the effectiveness and impact of learning programs is crucial for associations. Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery.

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

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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. If you are creating a giving trends analysis using this data, here’s a few final thoughts to keep in mind: Review the underlying grants data.

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How to Use a SWOT Analysis for Your Nonprofit

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A SWOT analysis is a great tool to guide any team through this process. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.” – Claire Weekes What is a SWOT Analysis and Why Do One? A SWOT analysis helps to identify opportunities for growth and impact, and anticipate and mitigate potential threats.

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Mastering Next Year’s Budget With Revenue Projections and Donor Attrition Analysis

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Understanding Revenue Projections When a nonprofit is putting together a budget for the coming year, an important step is to perform a revenue projections analysis that can inform the expected amount of income used for operational expenses and deepen mission impact. The first step is creating a budget.

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How to Conduct a Nonprofit SWOT Analysis: A Complete Guide

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In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Marketing strategy Your marketing approach can also benefit from a strategic analysis.