Focused Skills Lab: Adding and Blending Data Using VLOOKUP
Learn how to use VLOOKUP() to blend data from multiple sources in Excel, enhancing your reports and strategic planning tools for fundraising success.
Analytics for Fundraisers Using R: A Beginner’s Course
Learn to use R, a free statistics package, to build donor models that predict giving behavior, estimate ask amounts, and identify your best major gift prospects—no prior programming experience required.
Focused Skills Lab: Basic Pivot Tables in Excel
Learn why pivot tables are so powerful, when to use them, and how to create and use one.
Why Continuous Learning Is No Longer Optional in Fundraising
The Harvard Business Review published the book, *Reskilling and Upskilling,* and while I was listening to its core themes on Deepstash, I realized that our market has the same turmoil. We are both laying off staff and desperately trying to hire. I see announcements both… Read More »Why Continuous Learning Is No Longer Optional in Fundraising
Machine Learning Basics: Decision Trees
Master decision tree algorithms to unlock sophisticated donor segmentation and predictive modeling in your fundraising analytics.
POWER BI FOR FUNDRAISERS: An Introduction to Power BI Dashboards for Nonprofits
This comprehensive course teaches you how to create professional fundraising dashboards in Power BI—from importing and blending data from multiple sources to building insightful visualizations and formatting graphs, charts, and maps for maximum impact.
Five Steps for Overwhelmed Fundraisers to Make Each Day Easier
Marianne Pelletier shares her five favorite time management techniques to help overwhelmed fundraisers streamline their day, boost productivity, and focus on raising more funds with less stress.
Getting Gift Officers On Board With Your Prospect Strategy
As prospect researchers and portfolio managers, one of our biggest challenges isn’t finding prospects or analyzing data—it’s getting our gift officers to embrace the strategies we develop. After years of working in this field, I’ve learned that successful prospect strategy implementation is as much about… Read More »Getting Gift Officers On Board With Your Prospect Strategy
Training Your Staff Is Not Just a Perk
When Budget Cuts Feel Necessary When we get into an economic crunch, we tend to cut perks from our budgets. Doing so feels perfectly fair and sane – I often reflect on my library technician days where the acquisition librarian was trying to figure out… Read More »Training Your Staff Is Not Just a Perk
New Book by Prospect Management Expert Ruthie Giles Empowers Fundraisers to Build Smarter, Donor-Centered Strategies
Staupell Analytics Group is proud to announce the pre-launch of Prospect Management: The Essential Guide for a High Functioning Nonprofit Prospect Management System by Ruth Giles, a groundbreaking resource for fundraisers, advancement professionals, and nonprofit leaders seeking to build or refine their prospect management systems.… Read More »New Book by Prospect Management Expert Ruthie Giles Empowers Fundraisers to Build Smarter, Donor-Centered Strategies