Sharise Harrison began her research career at Howard University, an historically black university, and she attributes this environment – where everyone in all the roles around her, looked like her – to grounding her with confidence and openness in applying DEI to her work in prospect research. With examples and practical advice, Sharise describes how… Read More »
Robert “Bob” Osborne was born into a family of fundraisers. Find out how he embraced fundraising as a career and how he bridged from being a U.S.-focused fundraising consultant to a global fundraising consultant. Bob explains that the fundraising theory – cultivating relationships – is universal. If you get that, then you can fundraise anywhere…. Read More »
Meena Das embodied the tech career path – gaining experience, immigrating to the US, following the job offer to Seattle – and then it happened: data inequity. She became an invisible number just when she really needed to be seen and counted. To meet Meena – even just to hear her talk – is to… Read More »
By Elisa Shoenberger In Fidelity Charitable’s 2023 Giving Report, donor-advised funds (DAFs) gave $11.2 billion to 189,000 charitable organizations in 2022. That’s almost a billion dollars more than the prior year. While some people find donor-advised funds to be an exciting new way to give, scholars and nonprofit advocates criticize the entire enterprise, questioning how… Read More »
Zombie proposals are a thing, not just at Northwestern University, but everywhere! A zombie proposal is when you have submitted a major gift proposal to a donor prospect, but there has been no movement since the ask. There has not been a “no,” “maybe,” and certainly not a “yes.” There is no movement. We might… Read More »
When I first saw a LinkedIn post featuring the People in Fundraising podcast/webcast I was thrilled to hear about another outlet advocating for research and fundraising. But who was this Tim Wilson character? And what was the premise behind his new venture? Tim was happy to reveal all in our interview! Perhaps my favorite moment… Read More »
Medha Nanal has worked with all kinds of nonprofits helping them to leverage their fundraising databases. Now she is working with nonprofits to help them leverage machine learning and AI to improve outcomes in many different ways, including fundraising. Medha shares information about types of data and databases your nonprofit needs to have to take… Read More »
by Mark Noll, Rhode Warrior Blogger Greetings from the Florida beach. I retired a few months ago and am loving every moment of it. Despite not being in the workforce any longer, I still keep up on everything in the world of Philanthropy. Lately, I’ve been seeing a trend that has me a bit concerned… Read More »
“If it’s not in the database, it didn’t happen!” How many times have you heard that phrase – or uttered it yourself? And usually, it is directed at development officers. But should it be directed at prospect research professionals too? When fundraising research is stored outside of the database, the development department faces many of… Read More »
Marianne Pelletier has answers that are rooted in a long career of dancing with data analytics. In this conversation, find out where Marianne first fell in love with analytics, how she views the influx of data analytics services, and her insider insights on the digital assets trend. Along the way, enjoy Marianne’s sense of humor… Read More »