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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. Data carry enormous potential. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." And rightly so.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . students at Stanford University.

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Hype vs. Reality: What digital channels are the most effective in 2010?

Care2

Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. A common strategy is to recruit and mobilise large number of people to put public pressure on a person, government of company. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" The Case: 1GOAL Campaign.

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Program Management Statistics: 12 Stats and How to Use Them

Get Fully Funded

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. Funders may also explicitly ask for impact assessment data as part of their grant application and reporting processes. Constituents Served. Services Delivered.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Armed with such data describing the value of the arts for its participants, arts leaders can change the perception that art is merely a luxury to show that, instead, it is a vital necessity to human beings. With such evaluation data, arts leaders can promulgate the value of the organization’s art to all stakeholders. 3-4, Ppg 223-233.

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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