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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

Every year, Candid processes data on nearly two million organizations and more than three million grants. That data makes its way into various products and services to help: nonprofits find funding; researchers, advocates, and journalists derive insights into what is happening in the sector; and all types of funders to make funding decisions.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Here are three tools I created or co-authored that can help you match skills to roles: Nonprofit Data & Tech Skill-Building Checklist — a worksheet that provides an inventory of technology and data-related skills and a way to rate your skills or those of a team member or job candidate. Would that skill be easy to outsource?

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects. Data accessibility challenges vary by sector. . Machine learning is not always the right answer.

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A Lightweight Framework for Building An Association Data Strategy

Association Analytics

In today’s world, there are plenty of tech options, processes, and formulas to implement and manage data. However, not all associations are at the same point in their data strategy journey. For those struggling to find the time or knowledge to get started, building out a lightweight framework can help combat both those obstacles.

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So Now What? Finding Funding for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Well, that's an awful lot of pages of data and words, and you want some quick-fix guidelines and benchmarks. Let's look at how to get the most valuable and applicable data from the State of Grantseeking reports in the least amount of time. What Data Should I Use? So Now What? Next Steps for Grantseekers. Annual Budget.

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Outcomes & Social Investing: Key Themes for Funders

Connection Cafe

So I split my time, and the result was a whole lot of knowledge, connections and inspiration, particularly focused around this expanded ecosystem of good Blackbaud is serving – individuals, nonprofits, funders and corporates. It’s a win-win.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities.

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