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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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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.

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How to craft a data-driven social media strategy for your nonprofit 

Candid

The answer: craft your own strategy that uses your data, is customized to your audience, and won’t overwhelm your team (or yourself). Here is how you can craft a road map to social media success. Instead of turning to expert advice, look at your own social media data from the past year. This is your road map.

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Feel the Heat: Great Tools for Mapping Website Interactions

Byte Technology

Well, if you have, then it’s time to check out heat-mapping, programs that help you gain insights into user interactions such as where on your site they click, what specific areas they explore more than others and generally how they use your site for their purposes.

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The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

Cloud 4 Good

When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s data—the volume, the quality, and the insights it can provide. You carefully analyze and map your legacy data, populating your new system until it’s full of your organization’s history. The Role of a Data Warehouse.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . It takes more than two years to collect comprehensive data about U.S. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. foundations’ giving.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

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Few things are as important to successful fundraising teams as clean data around your prospect portfolio and moves management. However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Data Mapping: Prepare for implementation.

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Social Media Data Mapping

VisionLink

Assisting the American Red Cross, VisionLink''s Community Operating System is being used to deploy a real-time national map for this Winter Storm. The view includes FEMA boundaries, open disaster shelters, social media hash tags specific to the Winter Storm, and other relevant information.

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