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Nov 13, 2021

Thankful for Alanna

In this five-part series, I wanted to give you a brief introduction to each of the people who make Analytical Ones great: Its employees. I so appreciate their hard work and dedication to all our clients. Quite simply, without them there would be no Analytical Ones.

Alanna Shores, Senior Consultant – Director of Analytics

People love working with Alanna. Not only is she super smart and insightful in fundraising analytics, but she has a joyful spirit that is simply contagious.

Alanna has worked as a fundraising analyst since 2013 serving faith-based organizations. Her degree in psychology helps her understand donor behavior. Her gifts in math and coding make her a natural analyst.

But what I appreciate most about Alanna is her great attitude and her habit of making sure her clients get what they need, when they need it. She is simply a gem.

Thank you, Alanna, for all you do for Analytical Ones, and our clients.

Echoes of the Dot-Com Bust

I asked the AI Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot to tell me about the dot.com bust of 25 years ago. If you are old enough to remember, the dot.com bust came right off the heels of the Y2K computer fears, the September 11 terrorist attacks and anthrax in snail-mail...

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Micro-Sustainers to Lapsed Donors

Each fall, we here at Analytical Ones survey the trends in fundraising and come up with testing ideas for your fall campaigns. Last year, we recommended testing first class postage, to avoid the USPS’s SOP of delivering all nonprofit postage appeals on the same day....

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Part VII: How Analytical Ones Will be Using AI

Over the past couple of weeks, I have written about some potential effects that AI will have on the nonprofit sector. Today, I’m going to end this series on how we as a company intend to use AI. There’s no doubt there is a certain “wow-factor” using AI. It’s like Star...

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