Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The Big Picture: Design Thinking in the Context of Innovation. 3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits and Philanthropy. This post summarizes a few resources.

Facilitation 126

Facilitation Design Resource Taxonomy 126

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Picture this: Two giving organizations focused on reducing poverty—you would think they would be using a common set of terms, have similar approaches to measurement, and interpret those measurements the same way. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all speak the same giving, measurement and outcomes language?

Collaboration 20

Collaboration Impact Taxonomy Community 20

Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. Our research aims to show the big picture of funding within the human rights field. Without race and ethnicity, this picture is incomplete.

Map 95

Map Fund Taxonomy Analysis 95

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. It does seem as much a collaboration problem as a data problem to get so many stakeholders to share their data.

Data 36

Data Conference Report Proposal 36