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The Importance of Metrics and Dashboards for Your Planning
By Carrie Dahlquist, Director of Strategic Information Services at Campbell & Company Developing a set of metrics to drive and evaluate development work is challenging. Many of us struggle to find time to document work undertaken in the CRM, and sometimes, we are challenged to extract that data once it is entered. There’s also the issue, for […]
3 Ways to Design a Donation Experience That Will Improve Donor Retention
By Abby Jarvis, Nonprofit Education Manager at Qgiv Did you know you can start retaining donors before they make their first gift? You can! Many donor retention strategies focus on what happens after a donor makes their gift. Thank-you notes and impact reports remind donors that their gift made a difference. Social media posts and longer […]
To niche or not to niche? That is the question.
By Avrum Lapin and Ross Berkowitz of The Lapin Group The internet allows every person to be hyper-particular in what they are looking for—and less willing to settle for the less specific, or general. In the second part of the 20th century, whether it was I Love Lucy, The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, or Seinfeld, when you showed […]
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“Giving USA is critical resource in tracking trends in the sector, in particular because of the long-term view it provides. In addition to giving us a rich view both of fluctuations in giving sources and distribution patterns, it also provides an estimate for giving to religious organizations. This is important because it can often be a blind spot in research because these organizations aren’t required to file an annual financial report with the IRS.”
“I look forward to the Giving USA report every year to better help me work with not for profit organizations and our private foundation clients. The data helps me to better understand the philanthropic world around me and, many times, confirms what I see on a day to day basis. We can better serve our clients when we have research data. It helps us to better explain and structure gifts to meet both the needs of our individual clients and the missions they wish to advance.”
“Giving USA is the main source for our industry’s most reliable charitable giving information. They identify trends, provide great data and embrace the spirit for how Americans engage in making the world a better place. Every philanthropic professional I know uses the data and quotes it regularly. I eagerly await to see what their findings will report every June. On behalf of the working professionals I express my gratitude to them for their scientific and disciplined approach to their work.”
