Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. The survey data is available in real-time by region and country. Why the Open Data Project? Open Data Project Sponsors. 6% use Wix.

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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However, relying on legacy data and outdated tools can hamper your fundraising efforts and keep you from meeting your fundraising needs.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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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

APRIL 2, 2024

Ensure your team has a standard procedure for identifying any requests and activities within your system that are still assigned to departing team members. Provide “Goldilocks” Security Access Of course, when someone leaves your organization, you have a process to make sure they no longer have access to your system.

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VisionLink

APRIL 16, 2014

We believe that organizations should be compensated for the creation, organization, maintenance, and updates of community information data, especially in the nonprofit space. Moreover, raising money specifically for data management is much more difficult than raising funds for particular causes.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When your accounting system is not built to handle restricted funding , each report can feel like a fire drill. If your organization receives at least some of its funding from grants, you need a fund accounting system with subfund accounting capabilities built to handle nonprofit accounting standards.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. It outlines 10 core principles for philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) to enhance their impact and contribute to broader systems change.

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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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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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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. This is why, with support from the Alfred P.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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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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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. Collect Your Data Even If Its Not Perfect. Your plan should start by collecting your data.

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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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VisionLink

APRIL 25, 2024

More than two hundred 211 agencies across the United States offer a team of compassionate, highly trained community specialists who can help you access the best local resources and services to address nearly any need. The 988 Lifeline provides professional support and resources for you and your loved ones.

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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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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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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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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it. Whether you’re a nonprofit, funder, or a consortium of both, fundamental questions are surfacing about social sector data that merit your attention. Is social sector data a type of public good?

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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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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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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

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Implementing a robust and modern fund accounting system can save your team time, make reporting faster, and give you more opportunity to focus on impactful work. But introducing a new fund accounting system can be a sizable undertaking—even when you know it will be worth it. Mindset matters. Understanding the Timeline.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

211 is the most comprehensive and credible source of vetted information about local resources and services in the country. Our CommunityOS® platform runs quietly in the background, offering the most advanced solutions for coordinated assistance, exchanging data, managing, vetting, updating, and publishing community-facing services.

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Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

Data is key to optimizing non-dues revenue Data plays a pivotal role in driving success for associations, particularly when it comes to non-dues revenue generation. Creating Data Products – One area with significant untapped potential for associations is the creation of data products.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, the ability to harness data for informed decision-making is more critical than ever. Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By: Rakesh Bharania, Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org and Alex Parker, Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. In addition to the challenges inherent to any nonprofit mission, these organizations and their personnel must often work in areas with poor security and limited resources.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re unsure of where to start when it comes to taking advantage of this giving day, we’ve got good news: We compiled these Giving Tuesday resources to help you prepare for fundraising through the end of the year. Qgiv put together a free ebook packed full of helpful resources. Campaigns & Ideas. Communications & Marketing.

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Candid

MAY 16, 2024

Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, 47% of all staff identify as white, 24% as Black/African American, 19% as Hispanic/Latino, 6% as Asian American/Pacific Islander, 1% as Native American, and 4% as multiracial.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

On July 1, 2024, Google will permanently remove access to all Universal Analytics data. Organizations need to act before that deadline if they want to preserve their historical data. With the GA4 rollout, standard UA properties ceased collecting new data on July 1, 2023. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Both nonprofits and funders feel this acutely, particularly in recent years as we grapple with a global pandemic and the systemic implications of racial injustice. . Recent data from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) drives this point home. Digging in to the problem . million+ nonprofits in the U.S.,

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

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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Media Cause

JUNE 8, 2023

Our team compiled data best practices for your nonprofit’s success when using Salesforce. Data plays a pivotal role in empowering nonprofits, especially when it comes to understanding and managing donor and supporter relationships. You can untangle this and prevent it from happening again using data best practices.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

. “Smaller nonprofits are looking for automation and consistency when it comes to a database, but many don’t have the resources to maintain their current database system,” Graham explained, adding that Foundations are in need of a system that can grow with their data.

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