TNB Labs has launched, and its first priority is data services for nonprofits!

  Greg Palmer and I are very pleased to announce the launch of TNB Labs, a company dedicated to providing nonprofit organizations with high quality data services and program management.  TNB Labs works with organizations to audit and assess data management methodology, develop and implement data standards, and provide structural oversight through data governance to …

NPtech Labor Market Alert: The Big Job Title of 2015 Will Be “Data Analyst”

    My training, such as it is, is heavily skewed toward qualitative methods; at the same time, I have a lot of respect for quantitative analysis.  However, my favorite form of research consists of staring off into space and letting ideas float into my head.  Sometimes I validate my findings by engaging in conversations …

Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

  It’s been about a year and a half since I starting agitating for a Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology, an initiative that will kick off by training the nonprofit data analysts of the future. The concept has morphed and evolved a great deal in that time, thanks to all the great input from Massachusetts …

The Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology: Let’s Do This!

  We need a Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology, and I can tell you what degree program we need to establish first:  Bachelor of Nonprofit Data. The inspiration for this comes from many conversations with many people, but I’d especially like to credit Susan Labandibar, Julia Gittleman, and Laura Beals for pointing out, in their …