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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

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. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

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

Candid

Finally, because the Foundation 1000 represents a much smaller subset of grant data, it is possible to review the data more thoroughly. We also conduct manual review of the largest grants by dollar amount to ensure that they’ve been coded accurately (see more on this below.)

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Compliant with AIRS 6.0 Standards

VisionLink

VisionLink has completed another review of our compliance with the Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) standards, version 6.0. We are pleased to report that we are just so slightly shy of the 100% benchmark. We''ll have the last bit taken care of very soon. of their overall standards.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills.

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February 26th Design Session, 1:00 pm Mountain

VisionLink

VisionLink’s development team is queued up to focus on another round of enhancements to the Taxonomy Management & Reporting capacities of CommunityOS, and we want your input! Note that we are holding a Feature Review on the 12th of February that would be a great session before this one. Please attend both if you can.

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Epic Upgrade Releasing Next Week

VisionLink

upgrade rolls out next week, and this after several weeks on staging so our customers could review and provide input before we move to production. Stay Tuned as the Community Operating System (tm) takes another major leap forward. A major (perhaps epic?) Thanks to everyone for their input!

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