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Guides

Achieving social impact starts here.

Guides to help you understand why your organization should leverage data for social impact and how to get started.

How to align an organization to define a data strategy

A guide focused on how an organization begins the process of developing and implementing a data strategy, who is involved, and how to engage stakeholders.

Intermediate Strategy

How to emphasize a story through data visualizations

When created with a story in mind, a data visualization can make key insights stand out for your audience. This guide is designed to showcase these principles and practices.

Beginner Data Visualization

How to assess an organization’s risk of data breaches through human error

This guide will focus on assessing the risks of human error leading to data breaches within your organization.

Intermediate Security

Data Maturity Assessment

Start your data journey here.

This tool offers a pulse check, helping you measure and understand where your organization stands in your data journey today and connecting you with the tools and resources you need to move forward.

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Resources

Sharing learnings from the field to help you create positive change.

These curated resources include tips, best practices, tools, and templates to help social impact organizations through their data journey.

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Gestalt in Visualizations

Overview Gestalt principles aim to explain how the eyes perceive the shapes as a single, united form rather than the separate simpler elements involved.

Provided by Bootcamp

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Introduction to Data Visualization: Gestalt Principles

Overview Gestalt Principles are rules regarding how the human brain perceives structure, recognizes patterns, and breaks down complex images. These elements are crucial in data visualizations because they help facilitate understanding when we present our insights to our audience. Using the Gestalt Principles, the audience can more clearly understand the…

Provided by The Data School

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Exploring the Gestalt Principles of Design

Overview Gestalt theory is based on the idea that the human brain will attempt to simplify and organize complex images or designs that consist of many elements, by subconsciously arranging the parts into an organized system that creates a whole, rather than just a series of disparate elements.

Provided by Toptal

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How to Minimize the Risk of Personal Data Breaches

Overview It might not be possible to prevent every personal data breach, but you can minimize the risk significantly by making sure you and your staff handle people’s data with care. You have to do this by law, but it also makes good business sense because a personal data breach…

Provided by U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office

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Cybersecurity Quizzes

Overview Learn the basics for protecting your organization from cyber-attacks. The business cybersecurity resources in this resource were developed in with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Provided by U.S. Federal Trade Commission

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Open-Source Phishing Framework

Overview The Gophish framework can be installed with a single download to get up and running in seconds. This is a powerful, open-source phishing framework that makes it easy to test your organization’s exposure to phishing.

Provided by Gophish

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Opportunities

Funding opportunities from and for the data for social impact community.

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Funding Opportunity

AU Civic Tech Innovation Fund 2.0

Financial and technical support to scale up existing initiatives to amplify citizen voices that visibly contribute towards Agenda 2063 – Africa’s blueprint to deliver on its goal for inclusive and sustainable development,

Provided by Civic Tech Innovation Network

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AI Poverty Challenge

Three $1 million awards to identify breakthrough solutions to use the powerful capabilities of AI in service of expanding upward mobility from poverty.

Provided by Robin Hood

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Women in the Digital Economy Fund

Funding available to scale existing solutions that have made measurable progress toward closing the gender digital divide in local contexts and contributing to transformative approaches to digital inclusion.

Provided by Women in the Digital Economy Fund

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Research Grant Program

The Internet Society Foundation’s Research Program supports global research collaborations that advance understanding of the Internet and its value for all.

Provided by Internet Society Foundation

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The Pandemic Fund

High-impact investments in early warning and disease surveillance systems, laboratory systems, and strengthening human resources/public health and community workforce capacity.

Provided by World Bank

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