By Julia Bojarcik Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new buzz word in the research world, and rightly so. There are many questions surrounding the use of AI in research. Can AI auto-generate quality profiles? Are sources used by AI to generate text reliable and accurate? How accurate are AI generated wealth ratings? As a researcher,… Read More »
In 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and as the war has dragged on NGOs are no longer able to fundraise effectively in their own country. Suddenly, they must pivot and attract international donations. Early in 2023, Nilufa Begum responded to a call for volunteers to provide prospecting research for Ukraine NGOs. Nilufa… Read More »
By Julia Bojarcik Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new buzz word in the research world, and rightly so. There are many questions surrounding the use of AI in research. Can AI auto-generate quality profiles? Are sources used by AI to generate text reliable and accurate? How accurate are AI generated wealth ratings? As a researcher,… Read More »
This is the second time someone referred me to Christopher Haight and it is the second time that I was blown away by what a natural teacher he is and how easy it is to talk to him. It turns out that Chris created, trained, and managed a Discovery Team at Cornell University. If you’re… Read More »
Jon Garrow has been in the weeds of capacity ratings and all things data for a long time now. That’s why I wanted to ask him about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) on capacity ratings. And I’m not disappointed that I asked. Top takeaways from my interview with Jon are as follows: But Jon… Read More »
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 »