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Part I: A Brief History of Other “Game Changing” Technologies

by Bill Jacobs | Jun 16, 2025 | Non-profit, Nonprofits

Welcome to our first blog in a series of seven about our views on how the nonprofit community should be thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Every day we see a lot of hype in the media on how AI is a game-changing technology. I thought it would be valuable to...

New Blog Series on Artificial Intelligence

by Bill Jacobs | Jun 10, 2025 | analytics, Big Data, Non-profit, nonprofit analytics

Everywhere you look these days there are articles and posts forecasting the new world order that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring to our nonprofit world. These forecasts are both positive (AI will make our sector more efficient and economical) and negative (AI...

The Privatization of the United State Postal Service

by Bill Jacobs | Mar 26, 2025 | analytics, Direct Mail, Non-profit, Nonprofits

The current administration has advocated for the privatization of the USPS. This initiative creates a lot of questions and sends a shiver down the spines of development directors for nonprofits that rely on mail appeals to raise a significant portion of their budgets....

The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) State of the Sector Survey

by Bill Jacobs | Oct 10, 2024 | Market Research, Non-profit, Nonprofits

Our neighbors to the north, ONN, released the results of its 2024 State of the Sector Survey today. Over 1,000 nonprofit organizations in Ontario participated in the study. The ONN results sounded familiarly discouraging: Four-in-10 nonprofit organizations responding...

Give your donors a rest from fundraising? It’s going to cost you!

by Bill Jacobs | Jul 9, 2024 | Direct Mail, Donor Retention, Non-profit, Nonprofits

This post co-authored by me and long-time friend and former colleague, Jeff Brooks, the most vigilant blogger in fundraising I know. One of most counterintuitive truths about fundraising is this: The more recently a donor gave, the more likely they are to give now....
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