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Candid Data for Academics: Go back to school with better data 

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For parents, it might mean shopping for supplies and mapping out carpool schedules. At Candid, it means thinking about how we can get more data into the hands of academic researchers for the betterment of the social sector. For example, Sarah Wiley, a DBA candidate at the University of Missouri, St. nonprofits. nonprofits.

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

We envisioned six new solution line trails (trails are sets of related badges) to cover the signature Salesforce.org products at the time, Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Higher Education Data Architecture (HEDA). Map out your strategy: Literally, draw your map of content and audiences on paper or a slide.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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of the total dollar value captured in the first 14 days of data collection. Disaster relief giving by individuals and family foundations Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest (PND) has been tracking news about support efforts. Candid will keep sharing news and data on philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

We focused on two main goals in making this expanded data and information on Candid’s racial equity page freely available. After the uprisings in response to George Floyd’s murder, Candid relaunched our special issue site on funding for racial equity and added features including a searchable mapping tool. generate and?reinforce

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

Big data is still one of those concepts that baffle me. How big does the data have to be? At SOCAP13 , a social enterprise conference in San Francisco, I attended two back-to-back conferences on big data with some nonprofit representation. Data and Philanthropy. Data for Health. Where does it come from?

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. philanthropy,?analyzing?funding We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. .

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders.