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Lessons from DataKind San Francisco’s Launch of DataAdvisory Projects

By DataKind San Francisco From financial forecasting to targeted advertisements, advancements in data collection and analysis have benefited a myriad of for-profit organizations today. Unfortunately, due to limited funds and resourcing, such benefits often don’t reach social impact initiatives. At DataKind, our core mission is to enable mission-driven organizations to …

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Shining a Light on Community: Looking Back at DataKind’s Virtual DataDive® Event

We hosted a DataDive ® event in fall 2021, and with it being the season of giving, we thought what better time to share some highlights and express our deepest gratitude to our partners, volunteers, and sponsors for making this yet another successful and impactful event. While it was fully …

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Welcome Rachel Ford, DataKind’s Project Manager

We’re excited to introduce you to Rachel Ford , DataKind’s Project Manager for our project work with Google.org! Rachel brings her experience in grant project management, partnerships, and nonprofit programs to DataKind. At DataKind, Rachel will ensure the success of specific DataKind programming by managing select partner relationships and overseeing …

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DataKind Launches New Cohort of Projects to Advance Economic Empowerment with $1.1M in Support from Google.org

We’re thrilled to announce that DataKind has yet again received support from Google.org to apply data science and AI for good! As a longtime supporter of DataKind, Google.org’s latest funding is helping DataKind advance economic empowerment through new data science and AI projects. Building on our Economic Resilience Impact Practice …

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Reintroducing DataKind Bengaluru

At DataKind, we strive every day to ensure we’re living our values. In an effort to continue to live up to our values of equity and respecting the richness of our community, we have an exciting announcement. We’re happy to share that the Chapter formerly known as DataKind Bangalore is …

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Welcome Raina Han, DataKind’s Senior Director, Development

We’re delighted to welcome the newest member of the team. Join us in celebrating Raina Han as DataKind’s Senior Director, Development! Raina comes to DataKind with more than a decade of experience building philanthropic partnerships, primarily in international and sustainable development. With a passion for collaboration, she’ll lead the Development …

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Co-Creating to Codifying Processes Across a Global Network of Volunteers: How We Built DataKind’s Playbook

By Rachel Wells, Senior Manager, Center of Excellence, DataKind Last week, we announced the public release of DataKind’s Playbook and hope you’ve had a chance to explore the Playbook. Now, you might be wondering how we got here or want to co-create a Playbook for your community. This blog outlines …

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Introducing the DataKind Playbook

By Rachel Wells, Senior Manager, Center of Excellence, DataKind Have you ever wanted a behind-the-scenes look at how we work at DataKind? Interested in learning best practices and lessons learned from almost a decade of doing Data Science and AI for Good? Do you have a passion for providing pro …

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Celebrating A Decade of Partnership: Teradata Will Match Your Gifts Up to $25,000!

Next year DataKind will celebrate our 10-year anniversary, and we couldn’t be more excited to share what the DataKind community has accomplished in that time and our vision for the future. This is a major milestone for us as we continue to deepen the use of data science, machine learning, …

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Charting the Next Five Years of Colandr: DataKind Kicks Off with Hacktoberfest

In late 2015, DataKind scoped a DataCorps® project with an ambitious challenge: help a team of researchers with the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP), led by DataKind partner Conservation International , make evidence synthesis easier and more accessible to a wide community of conservation practitioners. Evidence synthesis is …

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