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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use a combined method. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. The above shows the methods.

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Can Stories Be Data?

NTEN

I like to use a combined method. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. The above shows the methods.

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Trends in Grantmaking: Bring Your Community into Your Decision-Making Through Participatory Grantmaking

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Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? Then we opened up for discussion.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? Why Use One?

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. 24th Annual Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations. Governance / @usdsoles. Jan 13 - 15.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200.