# Tableau offers free data analytics help to charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/11/30/tableau-offers-free-data-analytics-help-charities/
- Published: 2015-11-30T09:00:07+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Software company [Tableau](http://www.tableau.com) is offering free licenses for
its analytics software as well as data training to charities with annual operating
budgets of £3 million or less.**

Qualifying charities will receive access to the Tableau Desktop tool, which allows
users to analyse their data visually in real time.  The offer is available through
the company’s newly launched Tableau for Nonprofits programme.

The company is also launching the Tableau Service Corps, a volunteer network of 
employees that charities will be able to request help from on any data-focused project.

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Both programmes are being launched through Tableau Foundation, Tableau’s charity
wing.

The company said:

> “Data can have enormous value to charities, enabling them to quickly measure the
> results of fundraising campaigns, tailor communications to individual supporters,
> discover new trends and tell more powerful stories.”

In July [research](http://just.ly/data-fundraising-guide) from consultancy [Social Misfits Media](http://www.socialmisfitsmedia.com/)
in association with [JustGiving](https://www.justgiving.com/) and the [Institute of Fundraising](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/)
revealed that less than 24 percent of charities currently collect, analyse and implement
data as part of their strategic planning and decision-making, while 82% lack the
time to properly analyse the data they do collect.

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