Feb 022010
Part 5 of 6 - Improve & Contest: An Open Source Invitation

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Collaboration and team work are the engines that have made the Nonprofit Data Scorecard a reality. The energies of our small team of volunteers have begun to chip away at a few of the big questions facing the nonprofit world: How has the recession impacted NPO’s? Who are the [...]

Jan 282010
Part 4 of 6 - Build & Develop: From ManyEyes to Many Options

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The spark that drove our hunt for up-to-date nonprofit data was a desire to tell the story of that community’s ride through the economic recession. In the journalism world, the craft of storytelling is starting to meet the rapidly growing world of data flow – but the effectiveness of [...]

Jan 282010
Part 3 of 6 - Criteria for Data: Gathering & Ranking

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A big part of the value we see coming from the Nonprofit Data Scorecard is in its transparency and responsiveness to the public. Early on in the Scorecard’s development, we decided that it was crucial to be as rigorous and systematic as we could in our data collection and [...]