Christopher Haight on Donor Qualification from Identification to Visit
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…
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Jon Garrow on A.I. Tools for the Modern Prospect Development Office
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…
Taking Action on DEI in Prospect Development with Sharise Harrison
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…
International Fundraising with Robert Osborne
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…
Visualizing Data Equity with Meena Das at NamasteData
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…
Book Review | For-Profit Philanthropy
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…
Brock Silvey and the Case of the Zombie Proposals
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…
#CareerCurious with Tim Wilson
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…
Medha Nanal Answers: Can Machine Learning and AI Really Impact Your Nonprofit?
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…
Staff Retention: Thank You and Goodbye
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…
Michele Tanzosch walks us through her experience storing profiles inside the database
“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…
Trends in Fundraising and Analytics with Marianne Pelletier
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…