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Learn about Bentz Whaley Flessner’s latest innovations in fundraising technology, from predictive analytics to social media, at our upcoming workshop “Navigating Modern Fundraising.” May 23-25, BWF’s Josh Birkholz and Justin Ware will spend a day in Seattle (5/23), San Francisco (5/24), and Anaheim (5/25) giving tips and sharing techniques on how you can enhance your [...]
March, 28, 2012 Ali McLane will present Demystifying Fundraising Information and Analytics Click here for more information
Organic Modeling: Why Local Ingredients and Hand-preparation Produce Healthier Prediction Organic, locally-grown, made from scratch: these terms are no longer the domain of just your trendy local restaurant. Join “Data Chefs” Josh Birkholz and Alex Oftelie of Bentz Whaley Flessner as they discuss their strategies and techniques to provide analytics that provides a customized approach [...]
For analytics month at Bentz Whaley Flessner, we are proud to offer this Points of Practice written by our colleague, Jennifer McDonough. Her work in building affinity models for alumni relations has seen tremendous success throughout higher education. And the approach is very transferable to other nonprofits as well. We know you will enjoy Affinity Models: Alumni Relations by the Numbers.
As Josh and Alex mentioned in previous client advisories, the sophistication of analytics in the non-profit world has seen rapid growth. In response to this growth, companies have met the increased demand with new metrics and software products to help us better understand and target our constituencies. In continuation of Analytics Month here at BWF, [...]
Today a growing number of non-profits are integrating a data-driven approach into everything from long-term strategic planning to daily operations. Data-mining, more specifically predictive modeling, has emerged as a crucial tool allowing many organizations to gain deeper insights into their constituents and greater efficiencies within their operations. At DonorCast we like to explain the goals of [...]
As posted on KDDnuggets. A paper written by Robert A. Muenchen.Among more interesting observationsR has the largest number of email discussions (by 2-to-1 margin), followed by Stata and SASthe number of R packages published on CRAN continues to grow e…
Integrating High-Tech and High-Touch Approaches to Expand Your Fundraising Base
Josh and I have both posted about the Netflix Prize…drawn to both the idea of creating a very accurate preference/choice models with a very large menu of outcomes, as well as the crowd-sourced approach to solving the problem (and there was in fact a …
