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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

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Look, a goal is not a goal if you don’t have a way to measure it. A crucial piece of strategic planning is setting goals you can measure. But eliminating a waiting list for your food pantry is a measurable goal. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. It’s a vision.

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Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With the release of the “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , I’m looking forward to participating in the conversation about how nonprofits can use measurement, data, and learning to for social change. ” Once they joined (and they could share it with their friends).

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Using Data to Change the World: How DoSomething.Org Does It

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Beth Kanter, author of the new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , and creator of Beth's Blog , where she writes how networked nonprofits leverage networks and data for social change. Register to join us for the free talk and check out when her book tour will be in your area.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She hired Bob Filbin, Dosomething.Org’s first data scientist. She confessed to the audience she thought data science was about measurement and accountability. It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans.

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Research Friday: Out-of-School Time Programs for Latino Youth

ASU Lodestar Center

This immigration paradox has contributed to the teen pregnancy rates among Latinas, which is currently higher than any other major race/ethnic group in the U.S., This also serves as a preventive measure for adult-onset diabetes, which is becoming more commonplace among Latino adults. National youth gang survey analysis.