Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 19, 2022

The effective accounting, donor management, and data analysis of donor activity has become essential as nonprofits have embraced online fundraising, virtual events, and fundraising on social media in recent years. Implementing a CRM system can: Establish one system of record for all data.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently presented a data migration webinar with host Bloomerang. The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. 1-2 = 61%.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A recent Analytics in Action webinar, titled Embracing Data Analytics to Reinvent Your Content Marketing , delved into just this. Personalized Content: Tailoring Messages for Maximum Impact Creating highly personalized content using data and AI tools is crucial for engaging members effectively. So keep an eye on that.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 11, 2014

The topic of consumer data privacy is getting more and more attention in the media and on Capitol Hill. The topic of consumer data privacy has had the attention of Capitol Hill for some time. It all boils down to data … ones and zeroes stored in computer databases that represent billions of digital transactions.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

What about access to great data that helps us to understand the outcomes being produced by our programs and to know our donors and their interests better? Isn’t all this technology and data helping? We are aggregating answers with each recurrence of the event. As a kick-off to each event, we ask three short questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This years list of biotech companies reflects the evolving impact of AI, a growing interest in cutting-edge research tools for single-cell analysis and spatial proteomics, and clinical advances for novel drug candidates that promise more convenient and effective treatment for conditions impacting millions of Americans.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Putting together an ROI report can be time consuming, but can also lead to great data and help you find ways to trim costs without shirking quality. By getting your staff logged into a CRM, you can access data surrounding internal operations such as campaign emails, letters sent, follow-up calls, and overall progress toward campaign goals.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 31, 2023

Optimizing queries, improving runtimes, and geospatial data science applications Photo by Tamas Tuzes-Katai on Unsplash Intro: why is a spatial index useful? In doing geospatial data science work, it is very important to think about optimizing the code you are writing. This is where concepts such as spatial indices come in.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, Candid released our latest research manual, Analyzing Candid’s demographic data. nonprofits currently share some demographic data about their staff and board with Candid. In fact, about 1,000 nonprofits are now adding demographic data to their Candid profiles every month. Over 62,000 U.S. For example, U.S.

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Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the number of data collection tools available on the internet for little or no cost, it’s tempting to inundate members with surveys about everything from the color of the annual meeting theme to crucial issues like dues increases or social issues. Does some or all of our desired data already exist anywhere within the organization?

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

Fitbit activity analysis with DuckDB Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash Wearable fitness trackers have become an integral part of our lives, collecting and tracking data about our daily activities, sleep patterns, location, heart rate, and much more. What insights are buried within my archive of personal fitness activity data?

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This post is for those poor souls that need to scan terabytes of data in BigQuery to calculate some counts, sums, or rolling totals over huge event data on a daily or even at a higher frequency basis. In this post, I will go over a technique for enabling a cheap data injestion and cheap data consumption for “big data”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

Some say it will replace human workers because it can aggregate information, summarize data and provide key insights, and it learns as it goes. Others worry it’s a passing fad that could open organizations up to data breaches and eliminate actual jobs. And how, exactly, do nonprofits fit in?

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

It helps to analyze both the most recent years revenue mix and data from previous years. This historical analysis is valuable but time-intensive, so you might focus on a few organizations with similarities that are of particular interest. Looking back five years can reveal changes in revenue patterns.

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Candid

MAY 2, 2024

As the largest source of nonprofit demographic data, at Candid we’re often asked whether this push has resulted in actual change. For this article, we use our archival demographic data to examine i whether there has been an increase in racial diversity among nonprofit leaders between 2020 and 2023. The answer is…yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

What Does the Data Say? What Does the Data Say? Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. These are key in nearly all data pipelines, allowing for efficient data storage and easier querying and information extraction. So let’s get started!

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2021

In many of the conversations we have with IT and business leaders, there is a sense of frustration about the speed of time-to-value for big data and data science projects. We often hear that organizations have invested in data science capabilities but are struggling to operationalize their machine learning models.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 5, 2023

And how to ingest valuable data for free Photo by Tobias Fischer on Unsplash Data modeling can be a challenging task for analytics teams. Some of the data you need is simplistic, free, and occupies minimal storage. Some of the data you need is simplistic, free, and occupies minimal storage. But fear not!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Liberating 990 Data by Beth Simone Noveck.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data analysis and data communication are fundamental to the way people and businesses understand concepts, make decisions, and create solutions. Anyone who communicates with data needs to be mindful of the impact of the stories they tell. What it means to approach data with an equitable lens. Key recommendations.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . It takes more than two years to collect comprehensive data about U.S. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. foundations’ giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Placer.ai, a location data analytics startup, raises $12 million Series A. collects geolocation and proximity data from devices that are enabled to share that information by their users, and creates anonymized and aggregated consumer profiles. Its last funding announcement was in January 2020 for a $12 million Series A.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Data on startups is dreadful. Data about startups is helpful to understand directional trends and how the flow of capital works and changes over time. But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 18, 2025

The Data Tell the Story Year Human Traffic (%) Good Bots (%) Bad Bots (%) 2019 62.8% Digital Information World: Analysis summarizing Imperva data on bot traffic and industry breakdowns ( Digital Information World ) We’ve Been Here Before (Sort Of) Remember when mobile overtook desktop? Human traffic dropped from 62.8%

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In case you aren’t familiar with a member engagement score, here’s a quick overview: it’s an analysis to assess member and customer behavior over a certain period of time (we recommend 3 years). Start by looking at your data from a wide lens. Use aggregate scores to validate and improve member value.

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data analysis and data communication are fundamental to the way people and businesses understand concepts, make decisions, and create solutions. . Anyone who communicates with data needs to be mindful of the impact of the stories they tell. How the concept of empathy relates to data, research, and visualizations. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. Other types of engagement, (clicks, email opens, social follows) can be factored into the scoring system, even if the data comes from a third party source. Which email copy is best?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. and the European Union.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 2, 2024

Data cleaning is defined as a two-phase process: First, detecting data errors such as formatting issues, duplicate records, and outliers; Second, fixing these errors. Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? ) or HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference ).

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