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10 Reads for Your 2021 List

We made a list of notable books (and a few articles) from 2020 that will inform and inspire you and your organization this year.

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Creating A Culture of Continuous Improvement Based On Data

  I’m always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to…

Data with Integrity

  The goal of the Community Analytics and Learning team at nFocus Solutions is to support learning that creates positive…

Social Sector Knowledge Sharing: A Manifesto for 2015 and Beyond

  Within the last six months, three of the world’s largest foundations—the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda…

Adventures in the Data Revolution: What Revolution?

  On Sunday 29 March ministers from 54 African countries will gather in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to endorse an…

Buddha’s Advice On Program Measurement

  Maybe someday I’ll climb a Himalayan mountain to ask the monk there all of my questions about the universe,…

The Beauty of Data Visualization

  As many of you will you know, TED 2015: Truth or Dare is currently taking place in Vancouver, Canada….

Here Comes GenZ

  Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X…

The Power Of Data To Create Powerful Change

  Kim Syman, Managing Partner at New Profit, feels it is “fair to say that data is among the most…

The Metrics Myth

Since at least the early ‘90s, those involved in the generation of more than money have been on a quest…

Adventures in the Data Revolution: When the Data Tells no Story

  In part one we discussed the challenges of data collection in Uganda. In today’s follow up piece, we have…