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Dec 3, 2014

The Waiting Game of December

The-Waiting-GameHere it is December again. I remember being a kid and counting down the days until Christmas Day. Waiting. Being impatient. Hoping the Christmas would be all that I dreamed it could be.

Being in fundraising perpetuates these feelings.

Working since March on year-end strategies for fundraising, all my front-end work is done. Now, its just the execution and counting the money.
Fundraising appeals and donor newsletters litter mailboxes across the country. And your email in-box will be overflowing with year-end requests.

These next four weeks will determine the mood for the rest of the fiscal year. A good December means our analyses in the first quarter will be peppered with smiles. A poor December always creates a panic and we will be desperately chasing the budget for the rest of the year.

Let’s hope for a great December for your cause.

But we will have to wait and see.

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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Part VI: The Environmental Impact of AI

Up to this point in our AI blog series, I have been discussing (some might say ragging on) the practical implementational challenges of AI in the nonprofit sector. In today’s blog, I’m shifting the focus on a more global issue: Is using AI environmentally sustainable?...

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