NEDRA Industry News Blog

"Until now, I’ve never had a reason to guess someone’s age — alumni data is pretty well supplied in that department. This very month, though, I have not one but two major modeling projects to work on that involve constituents with very little age data present."

https://cooldata.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/new-twists-on-inferring-age-from-first-name/

..."We all track giving, but taking and analyzing the data can help us become more strategic."

http://www.npengage.com/analytics/analytics-taking-the-first-step/

During the last presidential election, the role of analytics in decision making and prediction moved to the forefront in the minds of many as a way to gain an advantage in competitive situations.  For a data nerd like myself, this was refreshing, as the average citizen started to gain a new found respect for a set of skills that had always largely been viewed as the sausage making that decision makers weren’t necessarily interested in understanding.

http://www.npengage.com/analytics/becoming-the-analytics-expert-least-intermediate-data-nerd/

Various compliance concerns are specified in the IRS's final report of the College and Universities Compliance Project, which was announced Thursday at the 30th annual Georgetown Law School Continuing Legal Education Conference, "Representing and Managing Tax Exempt Organizations." The report is being viewed broadly as an indicator of potential issues across the tax-exempt sector, especially in regard to executive compensation.

http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/resources/compensation-and-funding-challenges-ahead-irs-report-notes-%E2%80%98significant-compliance-issues%E2%80%99

State and national 501(c)(3) charities are expressing concern at being unfairly implicated by the growing scandal over the way the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Exempt Organizations Division has handled applications submitted by certain 501(c)(4) social welfare entities.

http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/top-stories/some-nonprofits-concerned-irs-scandal-will-stain-their-good-work

It is difficult to say whether philanthropy as a field is keeping up with the changing face of America due to disparities in how diversity is measured within the sector...

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=422600007

Nonprofit leaders want greater transparency from foundations about what grantmakers are learning and how they assess grantee performance and impact...

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=422700013

It was a tough year for the hedge fund industry’s top fund managers...

www.hedgetracker.com/article/Total-Compensation-Falls-by-8-Billion-for-Top-Hedge-Fund-Managers-Appaloosas-David-Tepper-leads-List

"How do you become philanthropic?," is a question that has never really been studied in depth. What does the journey from entrepreneur to philanthropist look like, and how can we chart these experiences to help the cause of more and increasingly effective giving?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2013/may/09/bill-gates-warren-buffet-philanthropic