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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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How to Use Data to Drive Your Content Strategy

Association Analytics

Organize or create a taxonomy for your content. If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. This will only work if taxonomy and tags are uniform. When a solid taxonomy is implemented correctly, it can improve your site’s SEO. Identify top terms and build a hierarchy.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

.orgSource

Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Martech changes overnight. They must also provide the authority and guidance that unites strategy, brand, and voice across the organization. But ongoing inter-organization communication and dialogue are even more important.

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

Candid

ii Finally, we “freeze” the Foundation 1000 annual sets (however, significant changes to our data or taxonomy periodically require us to update these static data sets.) These facets are captured in Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System.

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Changes Coming to TechSoup

Tech Soup

Those visible changes to the site also represented significant improvement to our back end systems — both hardware and software. On September 13, we will be unveiling more changes to our site — most notably, the donation request process has been updated. Read more about the upcoming changes here.

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3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Mobilization Lab is a global innovation lab for online social change campaigns incubated by Greenpeace. Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. Luma Institute.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits.

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