When someone completes a course and earns a Digital Badge at the Institute, it’s a big accomplishment. Courses can easily take around 35 hours to complete. Please join me in celebrating this intrepid member! Susi Pitts Susi has a Bachelors in Business Administration from UMUC. Growing up, her family had an International Shipping company where… Read More »
What could be difficult about creating prospect profiles? All you have to do is collect the information and deliver. Presto! Anyone who has ever researched knows, that is just not true. That’s why I asked Joan Ogwumike what she does. Because what happens when your prospect is a racial justice activist? Or out and proud… Read More »
How much do you really know about the Prospect Research profession and how it is nourished and celebrated? Did you even know that March is #ResearchPride month? We at the Prospect Research Institute decided to hustle up a scavenger hunt to help you find out! As the creator of #ResearchPride month, last week Helen Brown… Read More »
Author, Kate Racculia, is no stranger to the multi-layered world of high finance, and yet equally adept in the solemn halls of a library or between the donor profile pages of the wealthy Boston elite…as a former prospect research development officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, that is! But what is her real super… Read More »
Helen Brown runs a well-established development research consulting and training firm with around 20 full-time employees. How did she get there? What is a day in the office like now for Helen? I was curious. Who wouldn’t be? There are extremely few firms of any size devoted to research and Helen has done much more… Read More »
Way back in 2014, Helen Brown got fed up! Her passion for our profession yielded a manifesto and the declaration of March as International Research Pride month. “I officially declare that from now on, March is International Prospect Research Pride month. Get your elevator speech together and help dispel the mythology that what we do… Read More »
by Rhode Warrior Blogger, Mark Noll It has been some time since I have written a blog. I have had topics I wanted to discuss but it just seemed as though the timing didn’t feel right. The landscape seemed so different and I felt that my penchant for sarcasm was not welcomed in such troubling times…. Read More »
It wasn’t easy to get on Caroline Riseboro’s calendar! And no wonder, considering she was thrown right into the COVID-19 pandemic very shortly after starting her new position in February of 2020. Undaunted, this award-winning leader has clearly risen to the challenge. The Trillium Health Partners Foundation website indicates that they raised $75M in 2020!… Read More »
Cathy Ogur, Associate Director, Venture Lab at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania feeds of the energy of entrepreneurs. Even if she doesn’t start her own tech venture, you will probably find her working for one (again) someday soon! After a decade as a business librarian, Cathy has a lot to share about communicating… Read More »
The ultimate goal of job training is to perform your work better, and a lot of Institute members fill in the learning gaps with Institute courses and resources. Achieving a Certificate of Competency and a Digital Badge is an extra step demonstrating a comprehensive approach to continuing education, and although 2020 was tumultuous, I want… Read More »