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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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Confirmation bias is the tendency to place the greatest value on information that supports your pre-existing beliefs. Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive. But when the stakes are high, data is the knife that cuts through preconceptions to uncover the objective truth.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Communicators are often on the front lines of coming trends and can spot challenges in the making. Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event. Data is an important connector.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Communicators are often on the front lines of coming trends and can spot challenges in the making. Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event. Data is an important connector.

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Turning Nonprofit Data into Decisions

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Strategic partnerships and research inform her approach to new challenges and when drafting fundraising communications. It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. What do we mean by “data?”. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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4 Trends To Expect For Spring 2021 Fundraising Campaigns

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Just like last year, common solutions to this year’s problems emerge in the form of fundraising trends. We’ve been paying attention to these developing trends, and have compiled them here for you. Communication via text carries a sense of informality compared to other communication strategies, like email. Let’s get started!

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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ABFE and Candid partner on new research on Black leaders

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To this end, ABFE and Candid are engaging in a multi-year partnership that leverages Candid’s data collections and ABFE’s subject matter expertise to explore Black leadership in the social sector. The analysis will include how trends may have shifted in the previous few years and examine overall patterns and gaps in funding. .