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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. What it means to be data-informed. What it means to be data-informed.

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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. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement.

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Zoetica Salon Summary: A Few Good Social Media Measurement Insights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

sgEngage

And now that the 990s are released as open data by the IRS, it’s more important than ever to rethink the role of the 990 as a communication channel instead of just a compliance requirement. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them.

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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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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.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. from University of Chicago in Anthropology & Latin American Studies and a B.A. We just saw this. Of course you do. percent in 2009.

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