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Having studied a wide variety of individual behavior and organizational results for over 20+ years, the Analytical Ones’ team can quickly determine what matters most to your donors right now. And how to aid and advise you on what actions to take next for the ideal outcome.
Only by understanding your donors’ story can you create the fundraising that earns support, respect, and revenue.

Bill Jacobs
Fundraising Economist
Bill has over 25-years of experience studying the economics of donor behavior. The company he founded, Analytical Ones LLC, has developed the tools to help nonprofit organizations know more about their donors’ behavior.
In these challenging times, having Bill and his team on your side is critical so you can leverage your donor insights into actions that maximize your fundraising performance.
Data Stories
Choose A1OI Rather than AI
Seems like everyone is talking about how ChatboxGPT (and AI in general) are going to transform the world. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said, “AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than...
The Secret about Last Fall
We have been wading through buckets of data evaluating donor performance for this past fall. And while we still have a lot of data to get through, a clear narrative has been established: While fall 2022 was soft compared to the prior year, it is still way better than...
Prevailing Over the Fear of Uncertainty
There is an awful lot of uncertainty in our world right now: war in Europe, recession, inflation, layoffs, and climate change. Adding to this environment of uncertainty are the recent Congressional rumors of major tax overhauls, entitlement cuts and government...
The Economic Fundraising Forecast for 2023
The year 2022, for most nonprofit organizations, has been referred to as “regression to the mean.” One of the untold heroes of the pandemic were donors – their response to the pandemic was one of amazing generosity. But that level of generosity couldn’t be sustained...
The State of Data Woes in 2022
When I started analyzing donor databases in the 1990s, the state of donor databases was challenging: Poor data hygiene duplicate records non-standard gift coding undertrained IT staff simple inflexible software Let’s fast forward 25-years. Since the 1990s, nearly...
Why We Labor
Our company has had a very busy summer analyzing donor databases, making mail plans, and executing selects. And if you are like us, sometimes during the busyness of all that needs to get done in the world of fundraising, we can lose sight of why we do want we do....
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