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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. We are seeing it to help donors make decision about COVID funding and other disaster related donation decisions.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Have the intern map the steps involved so your team can review at a bird’s eye view. Interns are also great for giving feedback on new tools and products as well as subsequently logging bugs. Visit Campus 15.

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Webinar Recap: The Future of the Map

NTEN

Geographic Information Systems are powerful tools nonprofits can use to achieve their missions. Beyond just mapping existing data, some GIS systems are working to incorporate ways for mobile smart phone and cell phone users to collect data and update maps. Do you use GIS systems in your work?

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Have the intern map the steps involved so your team can review at a bird’s eye view. Interns are also great for giving feedback on new tools and products as well as subsequently logging bugs. Visit Campus 15.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

After the uprisings in response to George Floyd’s murder, Candid relaunched our special issue site on funding for racial equity and added features including a searchable mapping tool. and add them to the racial equity funding map. the racial equity funding map after we are able to process forthcoming 990 tax filings.?That

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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