Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). List: View and sort foundation, recipients and grants data in table form. Select details for more grant detail. Click on a line, bar or petal to drill down further and view a grants list.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. I had to become a part of this!

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Here are four big trends for the social good sector over the next few years that I saw playing out at Davos: 1. In the near future, I predict that the tech trends driving this shift will continue to place more pressure on peer-to-peer and “do it yourself” fundraising capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Also, take a look at what other associations are doing, what others within your community are focusing on, or even what industry partners are seeing as trends. Get specific so you can fill in the details with small, achievable steps.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

This can then potentially lead to finding another person who has similar interests or shares a similar vocabulary, and this is one of Vander Wal's key points concerning what he considers to be the value of folksonomy over taxonomy: that groups of people with a similar vocabulary can function as a kind of 'human filter' for each other.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

For over a decade, our annual Advancing Human Rights research has mapped trends in funding for human rights, breaking down funding into three major categories: issues, strategies, and populations. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

“Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. With good reason. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Trends over time Seasonality, Outside influences, Building up/ Wearing Away of relationships So what tools are out there? Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools. A disclaimer.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Influence Topics Audience Research Collaboration Communication Data & Visualizations Events Government Internet Strategy Jobs Online Community Performance Measurement Recommended Reading Social Media Tips & Trends Tools & Software Get Email Updates Stay in touch with Forum One Forum One Communications 2200 Mt.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 Large and medium sized organizations had a negative growth trend, but smaller organizations continued to experience positive growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Many organizations use social bookmarking services to share resources more informally with clients than through a web site. Most services offer a ???tag

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