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Four common grant proposal documents (free samples included)

Candid

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear. What can bias look like in the data?

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. .

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7 Steps To Get More Participants For Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign

CauseVox

How is our peer-to-peer campaign solving a problem? Evaluate your website and emails, and make sure the messaging for your peer-to-peer fundraising campaign is: Easy to understand — Your messaging should make it obvious why your organization has launched the peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Sample “Registration Now Open” email.

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Leveling up your major gifts program

Candid

Start by creating sample scripts for thank-you calls, emails, and cards and ask your team to thank your major donors. Establish a program evaluation cadence and set goals to take your program to the next level. No problem. Keep growing. There’s always room for improvement. Many of us are working at or beyond capacity.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. Despite this small sample size and lack of evidence for success, the concept has captivated politicians and Wall Street alike.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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