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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

How we create the Foundation 1000 sets The process of creating the Foundation 1000 set unfolds over a couple of years, as funders share their grants data with Candid and the IRS releases Form 990 and 990-PF filings (from which we source a significant amount of grants data.) Please reach out to our team at research@candid.org.

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What’s the Risk of Starting a Nonprofit?

NonProfit Hub

In an IRS study of “nonfilers,” around 16 percent of nonprofits that filed their 990s from 2000 to 2005 did not re-file in 2005. This indicates they either fell under the $25,000 filing threshold or ceased operations altogether. Create a leadership transition process. Which types of nonprofits are most successful?

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Foundation Center uses an agile process in their data mining. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work. That’s OK!

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