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  Two weeks ago, Silicon Valley’s leading executives came together to collaborate with America’s most senior security staff and law enforcement officials to help with the pursuit to destroy the Islamic extremism. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, stated yesterday that social media might be the best platform to...

  So much is written every month in various nonprofit publications and blog posts regarding the insights and best practices revolving around fundraising. Virtually all of them are truly insightful and can lead to greater successes.   However, just a few mistakes here and there in the handling of your data...

The Digital Impact Toolkit (digitalimpact.io) is a project coordinated by the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). (“Lab,” “we,” “us,” “our). The Lab is committed to transparency about data use and to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This Data...

Four principles to guide civil society’s use of digital data: Permission Civil society organizations should seek permission for the data they collect, and treat it with the same integrity with which they treat donations of time or money. Collecting data from constituents is a voluntary relationship. Civil society organizations have an...

Context If your organization is using external contractors or volunteers to analyze or visualize your data, build an app for your program, or conduct an evaluation of your programs that will involve the collection of digital data, you want to extend your values onto their work. You will also want...

Context Civil society organizations should try to protect the privacy of the people they interact with. This means collecting the minimum amount of data possible, securing it as best you can, and destroying it when you are done. Data use policies are often referred to as “privacy policies.” They explain...

“Digital data” is simply the digitized form of any material or information: text, photos, videos, reports, location data, financial information, databases, spreadsheets and much more.The digitization of data lets us share, store, re-use and analyze information at a scale, speed, and time horizon that were not possible before. In economic...

  I was lucky enough earlier this month to hear Nancy Lublin’s opening keynote at the Data On Purpose conference hosted by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.  The conference theme was about using data for social change and sessions were addressed the growing proliferation of data in the nonprofit sector and the sector’s...

  In PndBlog, Mitch Nauffts takes a look at ‘The Millennial Wheel of Disengagement,’ a new infographic from Virtuali. The infographic highlights the data behind millennials in the American workplace, with key insights and takeaways for the global economy.   Nauffts notes “the fact that every day between now and...

  Washington Nonprofits (WN) is the state association for the 58,000+ charitable organizations in Washington State. As a new organization (3 years this fall), we’ve sometimes struggled with how to serve the incredible diversity that is our sector. This article retraces our journey over the past year to learn how...