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

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Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. 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.

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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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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers.

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

And here’s my summary chart, kind of the dos and don’ts of site visits. Maybe it’s one of the teens that participate in the Girls and Boys Club after-school program, or maybe it’s an adult that has truly benefited from some of the healthcare services you provide. I’m just going to highlight a few of these.

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How the Media Covered Voting Rights in 2020

M+R

As always with this series, the hope is that communications professionals will keep the lessons of how coverage of the issue of voting rights shifted in 2020 in mind when charting a course for the future, especially as 2022 midterms fast approach. Community stories trickled up to national attention.

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