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How to Make a Donor Profile in 5 Easy Steps
You can make a useful and insightful donor profile with data from a few donors and a couple hours of your time. Here are the five steps to get you started!
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Top 4 Donor Prospect Research Tips Leading to Bigger Gifts
Learn the four most effective ways prospect researchers can contribute more donors and dollars to their organization.
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Information: The Better Half of IT
We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half—the [...]
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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance
Unless you measure your nonprofit’s performance, it’s impossible to know where you are succeeding and where you need to focus [...]
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Harnessing Higher Education Advancement Technology to the Fullest
Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, [...]
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AI, Analytics, and Your Nonprofit’s Technology Strategy
Nonprofit leaders often have an all-or-nothing response to the question of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Either they’re all in [...]
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10 Tips for Mastering Your Grantmaking Dashboards
The dashboard on your car gives you real-time information that helps you make better decisions about your driving. Are you [...]
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Data as Decision in Grantmaking
In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. Those who find it fun are [...]
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4 Tips to Cultivate Major Gift Prospects with Data Analysis
Some detailed ideas on ways to cultivate prospective major gift donors utilizing data analytics tools
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Integration: The Ultimate Solution for Nonprofit Data Silos
Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in [...]