Data Mining
May 30, 2019 at 11:04 am
There has been a growing trend in our space, and it keeps on growing. With over 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. alone, those who are supporting various nonprofits are demanding more accountability—they want to know how their dollars are being spent and how those dollars are impacting nonprofit missions...
May 24, 2019 at 9:32 am
As a recent blog in NonProfit PRO described, artificial intelligence is all the rage in the nonprofit world. Traditionally slow to embrace technologies employed in the for-profit world, nonprofits have actually been early adopters of AI...
March 18, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Right now, the big-ticket item is data. Nonprofits are finally using technology to analyze data to define algorithms, understanding more about their donors and more about their organization. But here’s a buzzword that’s been ringing in different parts of the sector: artificial intelligence...
March 14, 2019 at 11:55 am
Benchmarking, while less expensive to produce, simply does not answer our questions sufficiently. Peer-to-peer fundraising must begin using predictive analytics to plan, design and change. If not, we’ll be moving a lot of couches...
February 28, 2019 at 1:34 pm
There has been a lot of noise around artificial intelligence, and it can sound intimidating, especially for nonprofits. What is it? What do I need it for? And like most questions, if you don’t know the answers, you may assume it’s not for you...
February 25, 2019 at 12:21 pm
The adoption of tech tools in the nonprofit space has opened a door to unlimited possibilities. As the sector finally understands how technology fits into our landscape, we are also pressed with the challenge of understanding what each of these technologies is capable of...
February 8, 2019 at 11:39 am
As a self-proclaimed data nerd, I love digging into a piece of research or sifting through the latest social science data to glean insights that I can apply to my work. But I know that’s not the case for everyone. Over time, I’ve learned that people often fall into two camps when it comes to facts and figures...
January 4, 2019 at 3:13 pm
Long gone are the days where your nonprofit is guessing or estimating how well its doing. Every nonprofit needs to establish a process of calculating and measuring its success, if they haven’t done so already. But let’s take a closer look at success—what does that really entail? Success varies from one nonprofit to the other;…
October 3, 2018 at 1:16 pm
In the nonprofit world, every organization strives for change—change for a better world and change in the name of social good—and every nonprofit seeks donors who will support and donate to their causes. But in order to find those quality long-term donors that nonprofits look for, nonprofits need to understand that, in this day and…
September 13, 2018 at 1:03 pm
Yes, this is another article that talks about data instead of how to effectively craft a full-fledged marketing strategy for your nonprofit. But what you need to know is that your marketing strategy is already partially crafted by the data you’ve been collecting...
