Things are tough out there. Nonprofits trying to use their data wisely are in a tough spot right now. Budgets are shrinking. Expectations are rising because so many people see AI as a way to magically solve problems. New tools crop up constantly that would be great to experiment with, but those experiments are challengingContinue reading “Investments of Tech & Time”
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What Is Your CRM for?
15 years ago, when I started working with nonprofits and their data, moving data from one system to another was frequently pretty difficult, and so we had a lot of motivation to put all the data we needed to answer a particular set of questions in a single system. At the time, Salesforce was clearlyContinue reading “What Is Your CRM for?”
Preparing for Change
A few things recently have made me rethink my role with my clients recently in ways that I think are really interesting. One thing that has influenced me is the excitement coders have had in the last few months about the capabilities of AI generally, but specifically Claude. Another is the growing and improving listContinue reading “Preparing for Change”
June 2025: Experimenting with Data Analyses
There’s a whole set of data analyses that can and should be done at almost any nonprofit, and getting those things set up and communicating about them is a priority when an organization is setting up a new system. Once that’s done, however, a lot of fundraisers have some very specific things they want toContinue reading “June 2025: Experimenting with Data Analyses”
