Our Nonprofit Datafolk Club gathered in February to discuss impact measurement in nonprofits. During the discussion, many had useful tips and advice to share. Here’s a writeup of the discussion.
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Recently, our Nonprofit Datafolk Club gathered to discuss AI in nonprofits. What are people using it for? What are the concerns about using it? What are the barriers? Here’s a writeup of the discussion.
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Following recent analysis by the team into data roles and salaries in the nonprofit sector, we summarise some of the big issues nonprofits need to consider when thinking about how to resource data roles.
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In June’s Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop, we discussed the topic of data storage with an excellent group of data folk. Read Hannah’s writeup for a summary of the discussion about how nonprofits store data and wishes for the future.
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In September, our Nonprofit Datafolk Club spent some time unpacking the results of our report, released in July - State of the Sector: Data maturity in the Nonprofit Sector 2023. Here’s some of the questions and reflections they had.
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In May, our Datafolk Club focus was on pursuing a data career in the nonprofit sector, and we had some excellent discussions with folk ranging from data analysts and scientists to managers and heads of data. Hannah Khwaja shares the key learning points.
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For our April Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop, we discussed the challenges and approaches to get leadership buy-in around data. If this is something you’re tackling, read our crowd-sourced set of pointers.
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For our March Nonprofit datafolk club, we had a lovely group of folks join us to discuss data science in nonprofits. Here are some of their thoughts about the opportunities that data science could offer and how nonprofits can make the most of it.
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Choosing a survey tool can be a challenging task for nonprofit organisations. So, we’ve looked at eight survey tool providers to consider, and broken down the key features and considerations of each.
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As part of our Nonprofit datafolk Club, we invited people to get together for an hour in January to discuss their use of geodata. The knowledge and experience they shared is a useful source of inspiration and ideas on geodata.
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We invited data folk from nonprofits to get together for an hour in November and discuss the tools they use across their data pipelines. Here’s a handy list of the tools they find useful.
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Each month we bring together data folk from different nonprofits to discuss a particular aspect of data. These workshops are fun, relaxed and interactive. Last month we asked people to consider data culture. Ben Proctor summarises notes from the workshop.
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We run online workshops every month aimed at data folk in nonprofits. These workshops aim to bring people together to discuss matters of common concern and to share their experiences. For the September workshop we invited people to bring and share their experiences and perspectives around data skills.
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We ran the a workshop on "The greatest data strategy ever". We divided the 15 attendees into three breakout groups and asked each group to discuss a series of questions. This post summarises their answeres to those questions.
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