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

Candid

Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets. 2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. 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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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Analyze your Results - Complete a qualitative analysis across and within levels of your stakeholders. Communicate the Results throughout the Organization.

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in embracing the data. I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? What need will you address? But have you looked at all the organizations in your area doing similar work?

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. Here’s a good analysis by Ralph Koster that Robert Scoble point out. Here’s an account of how a LGBTQ activist is using the app – more to come? A Few Concerns.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo. The grassroots climate justice advocates at 350.org We think that’s a win-win! Power Poetry.

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