Part 5 of 6 – Improve & Contest: An Open Source Invitation
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. 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 [...]
Part 4 of 6 – Build & Develop: From ManyEyes to Many Options
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. 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 [...]
Part 3 of 6 – Criteria for Data: Gathering & Ranking
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. 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 [...]
Part 2 of 6 – How To: Use, Share, Re-Use, Re-Mix
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. We aim to change the culture of nonprofit data. To that end, we hope that the map we’ve created will kick off a conversation about the importance of quality, timely and transparent nonprofit record-keeping. After all, we can’t know much about today’s nonprofit landscape without a comprehensive public [...]
Part 1 of 6 – Announcing the Nonprofit Data Scorecard
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. The Nonprofit Data Scorecard has arrived! Before the big unveiling (cue the celebratory trumpets!) here’s a little backstory: In May 2009, our all-volunteer team of nonprofiteers, technologists, journalists and social entrepreneurs set out to tell the story of the nonprofit community as it rode out the bumps and [...]
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. We aim to change the culture of nonprofit data. To that end, we hope that the map we’ve created will kick off a conversation about the importance of quality, timely and transparent nonprofit record-keeping. After all, we can’t know much about today’s nonprofit landscape without a comprehensive public [...]
Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here. The Nonprofit Data Scorecard has arrived! Before the big unveiling (cue the celebratory trumpets!) here’s a little backstory: In May 2009, our all-volunteer team of nonprofiteers, technologists, journalists and social entrepreneurs set out to tell the story of the nonprofit community as it rode out the bumps and [...]
If you’re reading this, you’re almost certainly aware of the category 7 earthquake that rocked Haiti early on Wednesday evening. Thanks to the exploding density of real-time connection that is social media, news of the unfolding humanitarian crisis has blazed across the globe – with much of the initial coverage breaking within hours of the [...]
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