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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

Unless you measure your nonprofit’s performance, it’s impossible to know where you are succeeding and where you need to focus future efforts. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data.

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Lessons learned: Using demographic data to move from intention to action 

Candid

As more funders seek to use demographic data to inform their grantmaking decision-making, 125 partners have now joined the Demographics via Candid movement. Here I highlight their best practices for collecting this data from grantees, as well as what this information is helping foundations to achieve.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sort through online organizational data (Google analytics, email open rates) to see if there are insights, trends, and patterns that could be used to improve operations. Sort through organizational fundraising data to see if there are insights, trends, or patterns that could help. Cultivation.

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Countdown to Civic Data Challenge Deadline: Turn Raw Data into Community Tools

Tech Soup

Believe that communities can take better advantage of key data in their. Join the Civic Data Challenge and help turn the raw. data of civic health into useful community tools. The first-ever Civic Data Challenge will bring new eyes, new minds, new findings, and new skill sets to. decision-making? The deadline for.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again. As I share with my clients, a “system” is like a 3-legged stool; it has one leg of software, hardware and support, a second leg or infrastructure of resource budget, policies and procedures, management commitment, etc. Managing staff.

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The Questions Every Nonprofit Should Ask About Sensitive Data

NTEN

These days, big data breach headlines are becoming almost blasé. We've grown so accustomed to such incidents that the mere threat of a data breach no longer carries the weight and urgency that it once did. It is even more difficult to determine the total number of individuals affected by data breaches in 2009.

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Lucy Bernholz Named Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A thought leader in the intersection of philanthropy, law, policy, and technology, Bernholz writes about the business of giving in books, articles, and her award-winning blog, Philanthropy2173.com. She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects.