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Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data

Candid

tax exempt nonprofit organizations must file various Forms 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) each year. These searches tend to focus on narrow, high-profile issues, such as Covid-19 or racial equity. The chart below shows how the percentage of our data sources shift as more 990 data comes in. based foundations.

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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

The Millennial Donor report uncovered that celebrity is the bottom of the charts: When asked to describe what motivates them to give, 85% of Millennials pointed to a compelling mission or cause, and 56% cited a personal connection or trust in the leadership of the organization. But, on the top of the chart: a compelling cause.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. This internal mobile app includes only tasks that are needed by the people using it. It requires no API and no coding. Everything.

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11 Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit is a legal 501(c)(3), then it has a profile in the GuideStar database, and consequently on Network for Good, JustGive.org, Facebook Causes, and Crowdrise as well. International Development Exchange touts that a $100 donation initiates a rural women’s organic farming collective inSouth Africa.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Write a short profile of a few of your target audience members. You can even use this data to create illustrative content for internal stakeholders or to talk to your supporters. Create a heat-map to show them where they live, or a series of charts to breakdown their values. Imagining Supporters with User Stories.

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Data Only Helps if You Listen to It

Connection Cafe

What charts or slides did the group focus on? Usually the person with access to analytics is a low-level communications staffer or even an intern. The big breakthroughs aren’t going to come from some fancy new psychographic profiling tool. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong.

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Fundraising Apps: 25+ Tools To Help Your Org Raise More

Bloomerang

Constituent search features allow your staff to read up on each individual donor’s profile before going to meetings or events. From here, donors can easily update profile information and payment methods, download end-of-year receipts, and more. This whole online plan is mobile-optimized so that you can read the toolkit on the go.

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