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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better. You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

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and her children into an apartment, provide furnishings in partnership with our local furniture bank, and enroll her in a certification program so she can increase her income. “I For example, “ Your gift is the difference between life and death for the children of Haiti.”

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

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Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. A massive earthquake caused chaos in Haiti and killed over 100,000 people. Although McDonald had never been to Haiti, she had recurring dreams about the country. Let’s backtrack to when it all started.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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FishHawk Fellowship Church & Welcome Home HaitiHaiti Mission Trip. This is a screenshot of FishHawk Fellowship Church’s and Welcome Home Haiti’s Haiti Mission Trip campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer campaign.]. MoveIn Vision – Prayer Journey 2020.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

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Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Costco Wholesale’s “primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business.”.