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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 [...]
The direct mail program at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City has been raising more money and is costing the hospital less to implement. Why? Because David Logan‘s annual fund team has been paying attention to the numbers and using predictive modeling to better target the mail they send out. Check out the … Continue reading »
Are you a data hoarder? Do you have to parse through mountains of relatively useless information to find those oh-so-valuable tidbits that can make or break your fundraising efforts? If so, help is available…The Donorcast team joined forces with the …
Today’s guest blogger is Joshua Birkholz, author of “Fundraising Analytics: Using Data to Guide Strategy”. Josh is a leader in the analytics field and is passionate about its applications for fundraising. Only 10 short years ago, the word, “analytics,” was barely in the vocabulary. You could count the fundraising analytics professionals on one hand. Sure [...]
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, [...]
To Join the Online Briefing: click HERE Entry Code: strategyPerhaps e.e. cummings best described the prevailing approach to fundraising strategy in Seeker of Truth. But sometimes what is common is not what is best. To celebrate Analytics month at Ben…
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…
