Data is critically important to guide action and evaluation; to improve performance, and enterprise information systems are becoming affordable and in wide spread use across the sector.
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Spatial analysis is a powerful tool for nonprofits to analyze their impact and communicate in a meaningful way. Maps show funders’ and constituents’ areas of need while demonstrating where their support has already made a difference.
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Your Facebook feed is jam packed with LookBack Videos of all your friends. Did you recognize the important lesson it teaches on organizing your donor data?
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NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, is a membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals who hold in common the belief that “technology allows nonprofits to work with greater social impact.” To that end, the organization provides the nonprofit sector with very valuable research and resources. They recently released a benchmark study called, Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits […]
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In the previous two Data Rot series posts, we discussed What is Data Rot?- And Why Should You Care? and Data Rot: How it Differs from Other Data Problems. Those articles provided organizations the information needed to determine what types of data problems are likely present in a database or CRM. Data rot is […]
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Recently, Third Sector Today sat down with Anthony Pisapia, Associate Executive Director of Tech Impact, to talk a bit about cloud computing. In case you’re not familiar, his organization is a nonprofit with the mission of helping other nonprofits better understand technology and how to use it to advance their charitable causes. Many nonprofits have […]
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We discussed in the last data rot series post, What is Data Rot? – And Why You Should Care?, that data rot stems from the world changing around your database and your database not knowing about these changes. Aside from data rot issues, your database may be acting as a warehouse for a variety of […]
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Nonprofit Partner Blog How to Prepare for Upcoming Changes in Grant Reporting The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) is designed to increase public visibility into government spending, eliminate fraudulent activities, and instill fiscal responsibility among award recipients. The result is smarter, more trackable spending, in which agencies are held responsible for […]
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