Will you be celebrating your fundraising success with fireworks? In this Water Cooler Chat, Greg Duke will share methods for developing reports that pinpoint where your fundraising successes and opportunities lie to better prepare you for your next campaign.
Year-end fundraising is always a frenzy. In this Water Cooler Chat, our special guest Maya Gasuk, Managing Partner at West Wind Consulting, shares some best practices for making sure that your year-end annual giving program.
By Dr. Greg Duke During our Water Cooler Chat, I presented some powerful Excel techniques— Watch the replay video for tips on: Ranking prospects using =RANK.EQ(), Adding up gifts to a specific campaign or fund using =SUMIFs and related “ifs” functions, Bringing in fresh data from… Read More »More Excel Tricks for Fundraisers
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
I have, in earlier years, shown my raw statistical results with my clients, hoping to share the joy of getting a beautiful statistics result. Their reaction was to look up from my PowerPoint and blink at me. My own cardiologist once showed me a series… Read More »Translating Results to English: How to Share Your Graphs and Charts
In our recent Water Cooler Chat, we talked about using IRS data to understand charitable giving among US residents. Of course, that afforded me an opportunity to make lots of graphs and charts to study this data more deeply. Here is a look at some… Read More »Graphing IRS Data: Contributions Among States