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?

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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.

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Map Fund Taxonomy Analysis 93

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. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work. A few other takeaways: Foundation Center’s new tool is amazeballs.

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Data Conference Report Proposal 36

Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. In this blog, we examine who the players are in this space and look at what this funding picture means in relation to President Biden’s free community college proposal. . has awarded over $3.5 billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data.

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Education Accessibility Community Miami 85