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

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. 2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. private and community foundations. as measured by total giving.

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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The CNN Lesson: There Is No Hiding on The Real-Time Web

Care2

This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect?

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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething.

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

You can't have a clear tagline if you don't have a clear sense of 1) your mission; 2) what is special about your organization; and 3) what your audience cares about.&# Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. I couldn’t agree more with Katya. And I was glad to see Chuck raise the issue."

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in. Boyd explained to the crowd.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Way to accept donations or money from the event.

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