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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

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Every year, Candid processes data on nearly two million organizations and more than three million grants. All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

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7: Your Taxonomy Isn’t Organized In a Useful Way Challenge : Digital closets are a lot like physical closets. Whatever the case, if your organization doesn’t keep your taxonomy tidy, you’ll spend more time querying and comparing reports than finding the data you need the first time. Focus on what matters to operational outcomes (ex.

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How to Use Data to Drive Your Content Strategy

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As you start this process, make sure to be deliberate, careful and comprehensive in gathering the information. Organize or create a taxonomy for your content. If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. This will only work if taxonomy and tags are uniform.

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Level Up Your Marketing with Analytics

Association Analytics

In addition to the tools, a very important piece of successful marketing is Taxonomy & Metadata – the foundation of your marketing. By carefully implementing taxonomy and metadata, you will learn more about your members and their preferences. You can learn more about content tagging and taxonomy in this blog.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. They must also provide the authority and guidance that unites strategy, brand, and voice across the organization. But ongoing inter-organization communication and dialogue are even more important.

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

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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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AI at Candid: Powering technology to support the sector’s lasting success

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Here are just a few ways we leverage AI and machine learning in many of Candid’s current products and data enhancement processes. Turning data we collect into the most comprehensive view of the social sector.

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