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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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Auto Taxonomy Updates for Call Centers

VisionLink

We have released an updated version of our auto-update solution to ensure that the categories through which you manage your resource directory are aligned with the ever improving AIRS taxonomy. For more information about activating this feature switch on your VisionLink CommunityOS system, please contact our help desk.

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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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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

The subject area is based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). Organizations serving racial/ethnic populations were identified based on coding by Candid using the Philanthropy Classification System. iii Here, subject area is defined by the ten broad categories under the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities.

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

Candid

These facets are captured in Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System. ii Finally, we “freeze” the Foundation 1000 annual sets (however, significant changes to our data or taxonomy periodically require us to update these static data sets.)

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

Candid

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Turning data we collect into the most comprehensive view of the social sector.