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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

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In fact, about 1,000 nonprofits are now adding demographic data to their Candid profiles every month. The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. Data is only useful if people understand how to look at and interpret it. For example, U.S.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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The idea is to prevent you from investing precious resources in merchandise or services that people don’t want. It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment. Enthusiasm dies when people are not able to get the right buy-in. Read profiles of Hugh Lee, Arianna Rehak, and David Caruso in “ Association 4.0:

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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

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My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? At the 2022 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) conference, a few fellow evaluators and I discussed the findings of the AAPIP report Seeking to Soar.

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TikTok, Reels, and Shorts: Candid’s big swing at short-form video 

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57%t of people who watch nonprofit videos go on to make a donation. The results: evaluating the success of our social media video experiment We ran this experiment from September 26 to December 9, 2022, and collected analytics to evaluate its success on December 12, 2022. This experiment was (mostly) a success.

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5 Key Differentiators to Look for in Your Nonprofit CRM

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When evaluating CRM software for your nonprofit, you need to look for these five key differentiators: 1) Importance of Platform. Can fundraising campaigns be tailor to various donor profiles? There are also volunteers – people that can best contribute to the cause by donating their time. billion dollars each year.

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Are we building the Candid tools you need? 

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In a proactive case of employing user feedback, our designers learned that users regularly copy and paste EINs from our profiles to add to documents, so we added a one-click copy function. The more people use it, the more data we’ll have to evaluate which features are being used the most and which are under-utilized.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Could you develop a profile of member wants/needs in each demographic group?

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