Thank you to the 93 people who took the career survey! Are you dying to know “What Animal Best Describes a Prospect Researcher?” or were you waiting to hear “What One Word Best Describes a Gift Officer?” In eleven short minutes, you can discover those answers and more in the Career Survey Says! game show…. Read More »
The Prospect Research Institute officially came into being in 2014, but a lot of hard work started in 2013, assessing the market, deciding on the structure, and creating the first content. From the very beginning it was important to me that the professional community be invited in to ensure that one person’s experience (mine) didn’t… Read More »
A life-long skateboarder, how could Terry Synnott turn down the opportunity of a lifetime? Of course he would love to take a 4-year hiatus and skateboard with a Cirque du Soleil show! And when it was all over, he thought he would return to his first love – journalism. Spoiler Alert! He went into prospect… Read More »
Doug Cogswell is a man in motion. And he has served in the fundraising field long enough, helping a large variety of organizations, to witness first-hand what propels an organization through change and into more efficient and effective fundraising with data. We hear all the time about the importance of being “data-driven.” But it wasn’t… Read More »
Usually, when I interview someone for this podcast, I have some idea of what the person is going to say. I do my homework, read about the topic, and arrive prepared. Not this time. When I asked Adam Bradford, Director of Prospect Development at Columbia University in the City of New York, if he could… Read More »
Cryptocurrency has been making all kinds of headlines these days. Described as the “crypto winter,” coins have been folding, freezing, and getting hijacked. Is this the end of the cryptocurrency opportunity for philanthropy? Not according to Elisa Shoenberger, Research Consultant at Aspire Research Group LLC, this podcast’s sponsor. In fact, one might even conclude that… Read More »
Disabilities can impact an individual’s work performance and daily life in many ways. The significance of the impact depends on the person’s unique level of disability and ability, but most of the time, simple accommodations can be made in the workplace and at home to help the individual thrive. If you’re looking for creative alternatives to conventional workplace practices and processes to accommodate your visual or auditory impairment (or your employees’), consider these ideas:
Gauri has found a niche within a niche – corporate and foundation fundraising within the nonprofit sector – and applied an abundance mindset to continuously listen to customers and develop software support that works. How many years have we had CRM databases? DECADES. Some sources suggest that the CRM debuted in the 1980s. (So many… Read More »
If you’ve been in the world of philanthropy and fundraising for any length of time you are bound to hear the phrase “the art and science of fundraising.” With the professionalism of fundraising comes method and best practice – the science – but always there is the art of relationship building with human beings. In… Read More »
If anyone would recognize the gems hidden inside marketing data, it would be Joe Stabb! Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Practice at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but his LinkedIn profile is testament to the many career paths that he has sampled over the years. Many of those career paths have involved marketing and communications,… Read More »