Collaboration, Data and Impact - Nonprofit Technology

Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s impossible to create that high-level, human-centered impact without getting into the weeds. Data is the foundation for every technological initiative. Good data governance is essential for successful digital outcomes. Assessing the status of your data involves reviewing activity across several areas of competence.

Government

Government Data Experiment Disaster

How collaborative data can transform charitable giving

Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yet, despite the generosity of donors, the allocation of funds to nonprofits has often lacked consistency, predictability, and equity—factors critical to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability in the sector. Too often, data on individual and institutional giving remains siloed. charitable giving trends from 2015 to 2022.

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Collaboration Data Giving United States

Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. When strategy doesn’t filter through departments, communications lose that impact. Data is an important connector.

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Collaboration Marketing Integration Trend

Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event.

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Collaboration Marketing Team Integration

Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.

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Measure Collaboration Effective Impact

Reimagining grantmaking with data collaboration at scale

Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

PEAK Grantmaking’s “Reimagining Philanthropy” conference in March exploring these themes was a fitting setting for a session Candid organized about advancing systems change via data collaboration at scale. As a grantmaking public charity, United Way of Massachusetts Bay is both a fundraiser and a grantmaker with a place-based focus.

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Collaboration Data Demographics Massachusetts

Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

According to a study from Goldman Sachs, “Generative AI tools could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, which could lead to a significant disruption in the job market.” Empathy, or the quality that baffled Star Trek’s Mr. Data, will continue to be lacking in his real-world counterparts. Don’t be a team in name only.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Ideas

Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

But when it comes to a troubling relationship with your data, can you turn to those same people? If you’re struggling to find someone to share your data woes with, we’re here to help you decipher the signs and get you back on track. Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling.

Associations

Associations Challenge Data Taxonomy

Streamlining demographic data collection

Candid

AUGUST 19, 2024

Demographic data is critical to helping our sector better understand and meet the needs of diverse communities. Foundations increasingly recognize the importance of recipient organizations’ demographics in informing their grantmaking process to ensure their grants are equitably distributed and impactful.

Demographics

Demographics Data Philanthropy Profile

Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But when the stakes are high, data is the knife that cuts through preconceptions to uncover the objective truth. AI turns that knife into a laser taking data-driven decision-making to unprecedented levels of accuracy, efficiency, and ease. AI provides a satellite image of an entire data landscape. Not necessarily so.

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Data Studies Music Analysis

AI Initiatives in Associations Recap: A Fusion of Innovation and Actionable Insights for Association Professionals

.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2024

They emphasized the importance of fostering an environment where experimentation is encouraged, continuous learning is celebrated, and data-driven decision-making becomes second nature. Eric also showed off several of their custom GPTs that streamline their marketing operations.

Associations

Associations Professional Action Illinois

Strengthening Social Impact: Actionable Insights from The Generosity Commission Report

sgEngage

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While the total funding for nonprofits continues to rise, data shows that fewer Americans are engaging in giving and volunteering. I’m excited to share some key insights from this report that I believe can help us all drive greater impact and ensure long-term sustainability in the sector.

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Action Report Impact Blackbaud

AI and Innovation Take the Spotlight: Insights from.orgCommunity’s 9th Annual Solutions Day

.orgSource

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Automation: Many experts shared how automation is freeing up resources, allowing teams to focus on high-impact projects while letting technology handle repetitive tasks. Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilizing data for strategic decisions was a recurring theme.

Associations

Associations Digital Director Analytics

Are You a Nonprofit COO?

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 11, 2024

You foster collaboration, implement robust systems, and ensure regulatory compliance. Your leadership is essential and your impact is changing lives. AWS for nonprofits offers tailored solutions to help you streamline operations, enhance collaboration, strengthen data security, and scale your impact without increasing costs.

Amazon

Amazon Nonprofit Collaboration Leadership

Volunteer Engagement Surveys: Enhance Impact with Data

Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s ever-changing landscape of nonprofit organizations, effective volunteer management is crucial for achieving impactful and sustainable results. Are there any ways we could improve collaboration and coordination between staff and volunteers?

Survey

Survey Volunteer Impact Data

Make the Right Choice—Use Technology to Ignite Connection

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have the power to create a world where each innovation brings us closer as communities, makes us stronger leaders, and builds more impactful organizations. Data analytics and AI chatbots give us the ability to take member support and education to new levels of relevance. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of objectivity.

Technology

Technology Collaboration Associations Interaction

The Responsive Maturity Model

NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Learn how to foster personalized donor relationships, enhance team collaboration, and use real-time data for impactful results. The Responsive Maturity Model ebook is here to help revolutionize your nonprofit organization. Download now to discover the 5 key building blocks for increasing generosity and grow giving at scale

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Model eBook Collaboration Relationship

Turn Ordinary into Extraordinary–Bold Ideas are Solutions Day’s Signature

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This interactive session is focused on the cultural impact of AI, leading change, and the tools that can propel your association into the future. AI for Research and Collaboration Medical, scientific, and a myriad of other professions are being rapidly redesigned by AI’s ability to streamline all types of research activities.

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Ideas Sponsor Associations Director

Navigating the Future: How AGU Leverages Technology to Advance Earth and Space Sciences

.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

A lot of what we do well as associations is collaborate. He is focused on building strong interpersonal relationships to enhance collaboration and ideation within the organization. He stressed the importance of understanding the context behind data to make informed decisions that lead to better business outcomes.

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Technology Culture Taxonomy Associations

Blackbaud Seeks Impact Nominations

The NonProfit Times

MAY 30, 2024

Nominations have opened for the Blackbaud Impact Awards , which will acknowledge organizations and people achieving results using Blackbaud software. The Blackbaud Impact Awards demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the success of our customers.” Blackbaud customers are invited to nominate their organization for an award.

Blackbaud

Blackbaud Impact Award Seattle

The Responsive Maturity Model

NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Learn how to foster personalized donor relationships, enhance team collaboration, and use real-time data for impactful results. The Responsive Maturity Model ebook is here to help revolutionize your nonprofit organization. Download now to discover the 5 key building blocks for increasing generosity and grow giving at scale.

Model

Model eBook Collaboration Relationship

Market research made easy: 3 tips to maximize nonprofit impact

Candid

AUGUST 5, 2024

But without the solid data market research can provide, nonprofits may make decisions based on assumptions that lead to misaligned strategies and missed opportunities for retaining donors and volunteers and attracting new ones. Analyze data such as donor, volunteer, and beneficiary demographics and giving patterns.

Research

Research Marketing Impact Tips

Integration: The Ultimate Solution for Nonprofit Data Silos

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

Integration

Integration Data Nonprofit Platform

Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support

Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. million in less restricted funding for such impact-focused initiatives, often in the form of multi-year grants.

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Impact Support Demographics Grant

Meet Visionlink at AAS2023 "Make An Impact" Conference in Portland!

VisionLink

APRIL 14, 2023

AAS 2023 - “Make An Impact” Conference! The conference Program Committee did an outstanding job with quality sessions incorporating the " Make An Impact" theme through cross-sector collaboration, diversity, equity, and inclusion. All on one multi-partner, multi-program platform to reduce your technology costs.

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Portland Conference Impact Amazon

Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge.

Data

Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy

Essential Steps for Tracking and Reporting Association KPIs

Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

Leveraging your data throughout the entire member journey can impact your association and your members. From successfully converting non-member audiences into members, to your membership engagement strategy, to events and non-dues revenue, data can inform every step along the way. Pillar: Innovation What to track?

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Track Associations Report Metrics

Embracing AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Associations

.orgSource

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By analyzing member data—such as past interactions, preferences, and behaviors—AI tools can offer tailored recommendations, content, and services to individual members. This includes: Data entry and analysis : AI can automate the collection, processing, and reporting of data, minimizing human error and increasing efficiency.

Associations

Associations Challenge Adopt Literacy

How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. From this learning, I was left with the question, “How can collaborations thrive when everyone feels that they are “unique”? The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.

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Collaboration Foundation Test Interview

6 Resourceful Fundraising Event Strategies to Maximize Impact

Greater Giving

JUNE 20, 2024

6 Resourceful Fundraising Event Strategies to Maximize Impact For many charities, events are a cornerstone of their fundraising strategy. Highlight the benefits of exposure to your audience and the positive impact on their corporate social responsibility.

Resource

Resource Strategy Impact Fundraising

Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. Exponent Philanthropy members are demonstrating ways to partner light to amplify their impact. .

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy

Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It has a clear focus, providing users with the means to accomplish something meaningful and impactful. Users have the ability to add profiles for newborns and keep track of key actions and data in relation to their newborn, such as weight, feeding, and skin-to-skin contact.

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Product Develop Impact Case Study

Predictions for the future of social sector data

Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it. Whether you’re a nonprofit, funder, or a consortium of both, fundamental questions are surfacing about social sector data that merit your attention. Is social sector data a type of public good? We’ve already unlocked all 2.8

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Data San Antonio Social Philanthropy

A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. But at a time when many foundations are looking for creative ways to address the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change, they are viewing collaboration much differently. Why Collaborate?

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Collaboration Foundation New Hampshire New York

Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. They built a public API and released a public data set.

Data

Data Demographics Aggregator Participatory

Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Forward-looking nonprofit organizations know that leveraging data is key to determining where a community’s unmet needs are, securing resources to address those needs, and advocating for more effective policies. Individual donors and foundations increasingly view data “ as the fuel for innovation and social change.”

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Resource Data Community Aggregator

NPO Cybersecurity Getting New Defense Level

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Okta and Cisco are leading this effort joined by BeyondID, the NGO-ISAC, SANS, and Slack, which will each play a role in delivering the necessary support for the Global Humanitarian ISAC impact. The impact can have dire consequences and lives are at risk. The impact can have dire consequences and lives are at risk.

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NPO Cisco Global NGO

Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today, we’re announcing our third Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort, which will focus on climate justice. Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Why Climate Justice?

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Impact California Conservancy Bolivia

Using Collaborative Data Collection to Combat Human Trafficking

Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2021

Christi Wigle, co-founder and CEO of nonprofit United Against Slavery (UAS), helped to identify a need for collaborative data collection in the anti-trafficking sector. Wigle tells us that data is essential in discerning what is happening on the front lines of this work.

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Collaboration Data Industry Group

How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

They also know first-hand the pain, money, and time that is wasted, and the impact and outcomes that are reduced or even lost when nonprofits and schools don’t get the help they need. Salesforce.org Partners and Staff collaborating at our last in-person Partner Summit in 2019. There is something for everyone!

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Collaboration Effective Australia Global

Make the Champion Disruptor Your Catalyst for Change—Use AI to Drive Transformation

.orgSource

AUGUST 6, 2024

Most of us are wondering how AI will impact the future of work and our own professions. Evaluate the Road Ahead As the oracle of data, AI gives you an unprecedented ability to predict environmental shifts. Encourage Collaboration Collaboration is a critical aspect of change management. Make AI your champion for change.

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Change Oracle Evaluation Jordan

10 Reasons to Attend the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions

Classy

MAY 7, 2021

The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , hosted by Classy , is an online conference designed exclusively for nonprofit and social sector professionals. For the second year in a row, the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions is completely free, and completely virtual. 10 Reasons to Attend the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions. Data trends.

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Collaboration Virtual Alexa Award

How to Leverage LMS Data Analytics for Better Decision-Making in Corporate Training

Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How to Leverage LMS Data Analytics for Better Decision-Making in Corporate Training GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s competitive business landscape, Learning and Development (L&D) programs are key drivers of employee growth, retention, and overall business success. billion in 2020–21.

Analytics

Analytics Training Train Data

Nonprofit Cloud Dreamforce Keynote: Deliver Unique Experiences to Drive Impact

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once a year, the global nonprofit community comes together to collaborate, share best practices, and connect at Dreamforce. This year, the focus is on building unique experiences to drive mission impact. How International Justice Mission is Using Salesforce to Drive Impact. We’re also Reimagining our Power of Us Program.

Experiment

Experiment Impact Australia Nonprofit

Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

How collaborative data can transform charitable giving

Trending Sources

Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Reimagining grantmaking with data collaboration at scale

Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Streamlining demographic data collection

Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

AI Initiatives in Associations Recap: A Fusion of Innovation and Actionable Insights for Association Professionals

Strengthening Social Impact: Actionable Insights from The Generosity Commission Report

AI and Innovation Take the Spotlight: Insights from.orgCommunity’s 9th Annual Solutions Day

Are You a Nonprofit COO?

Volunteer Engagement Surveys: Enhance Impact with Data

Make the Right Choice—Use Technology to Ignite Connection

The Responsive Maturity Model

Turn Ordinary into Extraordinary–Bold Ideas are Solutions Day’s Signature

Navigating the Future: How AGU Leverages Technology to Advance Earth and Space Sciences

Blackbaud Seeks Impact Nominations

The Responsive Maturity Model

Market research made easy: 3 tips to maximize nonprofit impact

Integration: The Ultimate Solution for Nonprofit Data Silos

Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support

Meet Visionlink at AAS2023 "Make An Impact" Conference in Portland!

Data as Decision in Grantmaking

Essential Steps for Tracking and Reporting Association KPIs

Embracing AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Associations

How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

6 Resourceful Fundraising Event Strategies to Maximize Impact

Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

Predictions for the future of social sector data

A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership

Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities

NPO Cybersecurity Getting New Defense Level

Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Using Collaborative Data Collection to Combat Human Trafficking

How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Make the Champion Disruptor Your Catalyst for Change—Use AI to Drive Transformation

10 Reasons to Attend the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions

How to Leverage LMS Data Analytics for Better Decision-Making in Corporate Training

Nonprofit Cloud Dreamforce Keynote: Deliver Unique Experiences to Drive Impact

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