Mission embedding
A numeric representation of what an organization says it does, used to compare missions.
An embedding turns the mission and program text an organization wrote on its own return into a list of numbers, positioned so that organizations describing similar work land near each other. It is what makes portfolio themes, clusters and look-alike scoring possible without hand-labeling every organization.
It compares stated purpose, not results. Two organizations with near-identical descriptions may differ completely in scale, quality or who they reach, and a similar mission is not a recommendation.
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- What is a mission embedding?
- A numeric representation of what an organization says it does, used to compare missions. An embedding turns the mission and program text an organization wrote on its own return into a list of numbers, positioned so that organizations describing similar work land near each other. It is what makes portfolio themes, clusters and look-alike scoring possible without hand-labeling every organization.
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