Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We likely don’t need to convince you that in today’s digital age, data is the lifeblood of any successful association. And you’re likely to agree that ensuring the cleanliness and accuracy of that data is key. But what happens if your data isn’t clean? Data should be directional Your data may be disorganized.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

A plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a Blackbaud data breach case has been rejected by a judge of the U.S. The denial is one of the latest actions stemming from a data breach at the Charleston, South Carolina-based software and data services firm. District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, relying on legacy data and outdated tools can hamper your fundraising efforts and keep you from meeting your fundraising needs. Here’s how—and why—nonprofits should move from legacy systems to data-driven decision-making. Legacy-modeled data often fails to take details like these into account.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. While this data holds immense potential to improve decision-making and maximize impact, harnessing its power can be a challenge.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More and more our conversations are focused on Community Information Exchange Systems, Health Care Exchanges, Coordinated Care, Comprehensive Disaster Relief systems and similar opportunities to join efforts--and combine data--to leverage the work of many organizations for better outcomes.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Analyzing this data is challenging as it typically resides in multiple systems (e.g. your AMS, event registration system, your community platform, even spreadsheets). While wrangling all of this data into one place for analysis can be quite the challenge, it’s worth figuring out how to do it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Fortunately, data can help you make good decisions during uncertain times. Why data should drive your decisions Many key industries, including retailers, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations, use data to inform decisions. To be successful despite uncertainty, you must let data drive your decisions.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You might be able to win back an unhappy donor with a new program or event, but grant funders usually don’t get excited about silent auctions. When your accounting system is not built to handle restricted funding , each report can feel like a fire drill. A stressful, manual, error-prone fire drill.

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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.

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

The concept of “dirty data” and how to approach it can be daunting. Simply put, dirty data is data that is inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, duplicative, or outdated. At Association Analytics, we sometimes hear concerns about data quality in the context of associations starting their journey into analytics.

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Association Analytics

MAY 17, 2021

Analyzing this data is challenging as it typically resides in multiple systems (e.g. your AMS, event registration system, your community platform, even spreadsheets). While wrangling all of this data into one place for analysis can be quite the challenge, it’s worth figuring out how to do it. Acquisition Channel.

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Candid

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. Candid has long worked with academic researchers to create custom data sets to answer specific research questions, a service we continue to offer. nonprofits. nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 11, 2022

If this sounds like you, maybe it’s time you implement a donor management system, or DMS. I know what you’re thinking – what is a donor management system? A donor management system is like a really big filing cabinet that lives in the cloud and tracks everything about your organization. Host an awesome event.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The team at Association Analytics often hears questions like, What exactly is data analytics? With analytics, you try to aggregate data over time and across data sources for a 360-degree view of your members and their activities. What do members value most about their relationship? We suggest you create a data task force.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

The concept of ‘data-driven’ nonprofits is still as valid as ever. The challenge that nonprofits in 2021 are facing is that while data is great and all, there is just so much of it and it all comes at you, nonstop, from so many places. The 3 Cs of Nonprofit Data Integrity. You Want Your Data Current. And 2020 didn’t help.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

But we recognize that data can also be used to do harm. Over the years, we’ve faced various situations in which we’ve had to remove, anonymize, or otherwise modify data to prevent potential harm. In some cases, we’ve made these changes in response to specific requests from funders that have shared grants data with us.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Marginalized and underserved communities have not traditionally had access to data resources that could benefit them. Funders who are willing to take an active role in how their contributions are allocated can influence these communities access to and use of data repositories. based organization thinktank.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Data hygiene projects This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. Most people who start or lead nonprofits aren’t numbers people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2024

8 AI Concepts and Terminology Artificial Intelligence (AI): The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Machine Learning (ML): A subset of AI that enables systems to learn from data and improve their performance without being explicitly programmed.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But how secure is your organizational data? Shockingly, t he Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study reports that only 19% of all IT association professionals prioritize data privacy and information security. Put your members first by protecting your organization’s data. Ensure everyone can help if a data breach occurs.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

Excerpted from “Why Is It So Hard to Become a Data-Driven Company?” ” by Randy Bean – published February 5th, 2021 According to Harvard Business Review, thriving as a mainstream organization today means being data driven. Reexamine ways that you think about data as a business asset for your organizations.

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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. Candid helps us to be transparent and accountable to our community,” Dickenson said.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2024

Candid began collecting demographic data from nonprofit organizations in July 2019, encouraging them to share information on their leadership, staff, and board members on their nonprofit profiles. What supports could help reduce the burden on nonprofits and increase engagement with this data via Candid?

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

Now, be prepared to re-think a lot of what you know about accounting. Instead of increased profit, your focus becomes the expenses—and the transparency around those—because your stakeholders now care more about how your funding is spent instead of increasing revenue. Congratulations! Your focus is financing your mission.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

Does your association have a data governance policy? In our data-driven world, governance is crucial in maintaining the integrity, accuracy, and security of your organization’s data. Continue reading to learn how your association can adopt its own data governance policy and become a more data-driven organization.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to the Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, over half of association professionals say investing in business intelligence and data analytics is a top priority, yet only one-third would rate their organization’s data as excellent or very good. What is the state of your association’s data?

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sgEngage

JUNE 12, 2023

What is your CRM System’s purpose? Organizations that use a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system will typically rely on it everyday. The health of the CRM system needs to be prioritized. A reliable CRM system can still be accomplished with proper steps. We have your 5 keys to a healthy CRM system here: 1.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000?

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Candid

JULY 11, 2023

The sector’s overreliance on burdensome, transactional systems was inhibiting funders’ ability to be responsive and nimble—especially among organizations on the frontlines. Moreover, it became more apparent that these very systems were perpetuating a history of distrust, underinvestment, and disinvestment in BIPOC-led organizations.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

If it’s time for you to start looking for a new grant management system, use this opportunity to evaluate your processes, figure out what needs to change, and find a solution that can growth with your organization. If a system doesn’t have one of these, or it requires a workaround, it’s a non-starter.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Now with over 100 partners , and nearly 60,000 organizations sharing data, the Demographics via Candid campaign is going strong. In the process, we have noticed there are some common concerns and barriers that tend to come up on the road to better demographic data.

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Nucleus

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In 2019, Terry and TEI decided to use advanced data analytics to help reach organizational goals and they selected the Nucleus solution to do this. In sharing his experiences and recommendations, he writes: “I hope to help somebody out there – we were making decisions that were not necessarily data driven.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To grow your education business, you need to take advantage of the sophisticated metrics now available through modern data analytics – trends, behaviors, preferences, popularity, geography and much more. If your association is like most today, you use a variety of software systems and there is useful member data contained in each of them.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data is everywhere—in every filing cabinet and software system—making it more critical than ever for schools and nonprofits to manage it properly and use that data to make more informed decisions. How are you collecting, storing, and accessing that data? What data does our school need? Do you have the right tools?

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