In this Water Cooler Chat, we explore how to keep your data clean so that it’s ready for analysis. We discuss auditing techniques and best practices for ensuring that your data is accurate and up-to-date. We provide practical tips for improving your data analysis skills… Read More »From Scary to Savvy: How to Clean Your Data for Better Decision Making
While data cleanup and integrity are always important, the timing of focusing on it during the fall season might seem curious. October—and the last three months of the year in general—is typically a particularly busy time for non-profits. This is the season for sending… Read More »Data Cleanup and Integrity!—At a Time Like This?!?
Liz Rejman, Principal of Liz Rejman + Co. lead this Water Cooler Chat on how to optimize your organization’s data by understanding the data life cycle. The chat will covered ideas such as developing a data governance policy, selecting data, onboarding data, performance management, and… Read More »Optimize Strategic Decisions by Maximizing Your Data’s Potential
The summer is often a time for fundraising organizations to review their strengths and weaknesses, and to improve their tools, for the upcoming fiscal year. One of the most popular targets for this improvement is the organization’s database, as the database affects all aspects of… Read More »Three Principles for a Practical Data Audit
March is normally a quiet time in fundraising, but June is coming up fast. Join Greg Duke to discover more ways to ease your administrivia load with Greg’s latest Excel tricks and tips.
In our February Water Cooler Chat, we were asked if it were possible to do a word cloud from contact reports using Excel because it’s a tool that is familiar and used often.Although it is possible, the process is clunky. Since Excel wasn’t built to… Read More »How to Create Word Clouds from Your Contact Reports Using Excel
This blog post will get published after the end of the fiscal year for most nonprofits, but the ideas in here can still be used to help boost any campaign end (or start or middle, for that matter). Here we’ll review five ways you can… Read More »5 Ideas for Last Minute Prospecting to Boost Your End of Year Fundraising