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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., government agencies ii.

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Verdict in Guatemala Disappearance Case!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case The Benetech Human Rights Program uses cutting edge computing methods and statistical analysis to provide objective evidence of human rights violations. Tags: Guzmán archive National Police Archive human rights trial Guatemala disappeances.

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Testimony From Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Helps Establish Legal Precedent and Convictions for Forced Disappearance in Guatemala

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Expert testimony by Benetech statistical consultant Daniel Guzmán provided critical evidence in the conviction of the former Guatemalan National Police officers Abraham Lancerio Gómez and Héctor Roderico Ramírez. million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archive.

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Stereotypes Aside, Millennials Are Acting for Change

Achieve

Almost 65 percent of millennials in our sample reported voting in the 2016 presidential election. Civil rights/racial discrimination (reported by 29% of the sample) supplanted education and employment/wages as the top issues of concern among this generation since last year. population who voted (Pew Research Institute). Hope and trust.

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Interning in Guatemala on the Archive Project

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As an intern with HRDAG , I was part of the team analyzing data drawn from documents in the National Police Archive, a cache of approximately 80 million sheets of paper kept by the police system during the Guatemalan Civil War, a 36-year long conflict that ended in 1996. It’s funny, my parents asked the same question.)

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Report: Millennials Rank Education, Healthcare and Employment as Top Election Issues

Achieve

Millennials continue to have some level of trust in government to do what is right, though the majority don’t rate that trust as high. To uncover the ongoing trends related to this generation’s political ideologies and cause engagement, Achieve designed a multi-stage, mixed methods research study. Download the.

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Email Campaigns That Work for Nonprofits

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You've developed e-advocacy tools to rush public policy action alerts to supporters who can advocate for fair and ethical local, national and global policies. Best Method/Vehicle. You use e-newsletters to keep your members, supporters and volunteers up-to-date on your program developments and related issues. Email marketing goal.

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