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Oct 10, 2024

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

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 to the survey said the organization was at significant risk for not existing in the next three years.
  • Eight-in-10 of the nonprofits experienced an increase in demand for their programs and services, a 7% increase over 2023.
  • Half of the nonprofits reported stagnant and declining revenue while eight-in-10 reported increases in their expenses.
  • One-third of nonprofits reported using their reserve funds, similar to pandemic-era levels.

So, the need for nonprofit services in Ontario keeps increasing, while revenue declines and expenses increase.

It’s tough out there folks.

Find the full report here.

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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