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At Datassist, we’ll work as hard as you do to get results. We are evaluators, researchers & statisticians for the non-profit world. We specialize in helping non-profits and NGOs find the data they need, evaluate programs & analyze the data in a way that serves their mission, and effectively present the data to others.
Ambient data is produced unintentionally, without explicitly researching or evaluating anything. This data is produced continually in the routines of life and in the day-to-day operations of your agency. “Even when individuals do not have direct access to mobile phones or other technologies, they may still be passively emitting information as they go about their [...]
Since our last post on the Durfee Foundation, we’ve discovered four more funders of sabbaticals for EDs of nonprofit and NGO organizations. Barr Foundation (Boston), The Durfee Foundation (Los Angeles) Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Phoenix) Rasmuson Foundation (Alaska) Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program (U.S. national) A report on the success of these sabbaticals can be found [...]
“Funding Failure Since 1960″ is the internal tagline of the Durfee Foundation, joked Carrie Avery, President of the Durfee Foundation at GEO 2012. The wisdom behind this is quite remarkable. The Durfee Foundation, runs a program in which six people from diverse fields are funded for two years in order to “think deeply about the [...]
The latest issue of the Standford Social Innovation Review includes a must-read article by Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reflecting on the growing importance of strategic philanthropy over the last decade and its prospects for the future. “For all of the improved practices and new ideas of the [...]
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The Center for Urban Pedagogy is a working example of innovative use of design and data for good. They’ve got kids and teens and teachers and artists and politicians working together on public policy and civic engagement project. They will train you to do it too. One of their coolest projects is “Know your [...]
