Thursday, November 05, 2015

Donor Development and the Marriage of Quantitative and Qualitative Data | Nonprofit Quarterly

Donor Development and the Marriage of Quantitative and Qualitative Data | Nonprofit Quarterly: "How do qualitative and quantitative data help in your fundraising? Here are some thoughts that are less about tools and more about how information can be used to help us communicate more effectively.

From data about nonprofits themselves to the data that nonprofits use to woo donors, we have no dearth of information about the nonprofit relationship with, well, information. The road to “big data” started with the information explosion in the 1940s, and libraries, governments, companies and nonprofits have played catch-up ever since. In the past few years in particular, as web tools become increasingly accessible, data has been seen as the key to donations and impact."



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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

The Games Art Historians Play: Online Game-based Learning in Art History and Museum Contexts – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Games Art Historians Play: Online Game-based Learning in Art History and Museum Contexts – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Considering a few models within my own discipline of art history will orient colleagues curious about venturing down this pedagogical path, but, as with any learning tool, game-based learning will have to fit the specific context of a given course or program.

To begin with some definitions, game-based learning differs from gamification in several important ways. Sometimes the latter is reduced to bells and whistles such as gold stars and progress bars, but gamification is potentially a much more subtle and powerful teaching strategy. T"



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Why Fund Tech for Nonprofits - Final with links (External).pdf - Box

Why Fund Tech for Nonprofits - Final with links (External).pdf - Box:



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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

15 Australian charities trial text giving — Third Sector

15 Australian charities trial text giving — Third Sector: "A 12 month text giving trial will involve 15 charities, with UNICEF Australia and World Vision the first to launch text giving campaigns. The campaigns will allow anyone to donate to a cause by simply sending an SMS."



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