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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

Mobile users are doing a whole lot more than making calls — 38% of them (and rising) use their devices to access the Internet ( View survey results ). Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data.' But [data] are also creating a host of new problems.

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The Importance of Collaborative Benchmarking in the Nonprofit Sector

Connection Cafe

The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking explains the three common barriers why benchmarking has not been universally adopted yet in the nonprofit sector: fear, lack of existing standards or consistent data and the cost of getting started.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

Top Nonprofits

A 2017 survey by the HR firm Betterworks showed that 87% of employees are reading political social media posts during the workday, 63% have talked to their fellow workers about politics since the 2016 elections, and 37% admitted to talking with their manager or boss about politics. Download the complete Humans@Work white paper.

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Maximizing Multichannel Fundraising for Higher Education

Connection Cafe

If you haven’t watched fundraising expert Joe Garecht’s Heating Up Multichannel Fundraising webinar or read his Raising Money through Multichannel Communications white paper, we highly recommend you do so. Tip 6: Get social to reach new donors.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

You’re super involved with Cal State University. Right, more resource intensive would be to have board and staff members conduct surveys or interviews on changes, to share and reflect on them, to share what was learned and to reflect on this. And you’ve done great sessions for us in the past. And so you can read more there.

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Strategies to Tell if Your Nonprofit Content Marketing is Hurting or Helping

Bloomerang

There’s a whole universe of values out there, and not every one of them fits with your vision and mission. CONSIDER: When’s the last time you conducted audience surveys for your target constituencies (e.g. White Papers (e.g., Ask via survey. Be sure to first spend time figuring out who your target audiences are.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 Olga Prushinskaya, “Worker Co-ops Show Significant Growth in Latest Survey Data,” Fifty by Fifty, February 18, 2020, org/2020/02/worker-co-ops-show-significant-growth-in-latest-survey-data/. George Akerlof and Robert J.

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