A Gold Mine of Data About Smart Ways to Help Nonprofits - Good Advice - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

A Gold Mine of Data About Smart Ways to Help Nonprofits - Good Advice - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: And that is exactly what will soon be available from a study underwritten by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I learned about the preliminary results at the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference, Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact, where I attended a discussion with Kathy Reich, a program officer at the Packard Foundation, and Paul Connolly, a nonprofit management consultant, about preliminary findings from the foundation’s Organizational Effective Goldmine Research Project, which analyzes 1,300 grants that were designed to make nonprofits stronger.