Nonprofits are Finding New Ways to Get the Data They Need
Nonprofits are taking advantage of new partnerships, tools, and technologies like data philanthropy, predictive analytics, and machine learning to demonstrate impact.
Category: Data & Data Tools
Customizing Your Community Insight Experience: How to Save & Share Data
Explore three ways to easily save and share information from Community Insight, the Johnson Center’s free online data tool.
Using Map Layers in Community Insight
Community Insight’s map layer feature allows you to visualize indicator data in a specific geographic area and easily compare data across locations.
How to Use Community Insight in Three Easy Steps
This step-by-step guide explains how to use the Community Insight public dashboard to view indicators from multiple datasets on topics like education, health, unemployment, household income, and more.
How to Exclude Nonprofits Without Even Trying: Grant Eligibility Requirements Narrow Your Pool
Jeff Williams explains how traditional donor, nonprofit, and foundation practices are often rooted in misconceptions about the scale and breadth of the sector, leaving many nonprofits out to dry when it comes to grant eligibility.
Introducing Community Insight: A New, Interactive Data Platform
Drawing on multiple datasets, Community Insight is an online platform for displaying data about local communities, understanding community opportunities and needs, and targeting efforts for advancing equity.
Data Comes of Age in Philanthropy
Jeff Williams describes how individual organizations balance privacy and transparency, address equity of access, and act upon data to create and share actionable knowledge will be key for philanthropy going forward.
Data Science for Social Impact
Adriaza Paz examines the growing number of foundations and individual philanthropists investing in data scientists and data-informed decision making.
Kent County Essential Needs Task Force Shares How They’re Using the Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids Report
Representatives from the Kent County Essential Needs Task Force speak with us about how their organization is using data from our “Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids” report to inform their work and further their mission.
Putting Economic Inclusion Data to Work in Grand Rapids
In this interview with Stacy Stout, director of equity and engagement with the City of Grand Rapids, she shares how the City is using key data from the Johnson Center’s “Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids” report.