 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 of dots in random spaces across the page, 2 inches deep, scattered all over. He told me that it was clear evidence of how my heart was doing. I looked up at him and blinked. Neither I nor he were getting our point across when we showed those untranslated results.
For example, I added below the output from a linear regression model. It should never be seen by a gift officer or an executive.
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 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 push new prospects into your pipeline.
In our recent Water Cooler Chat, Greg Duke, Partner for Database Services, shared the Monte Carlo technique – a way of understanding what the likely range of results would be for a given scenario. In our blog post today, we expand on the concept of using this forecasting technique to take care of three different fundraising needs.
 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 interesting statistics related to different US states.
First, notice in this graph that California, Texas, and New York all have the highest levels of median income, but are also the states where people claimed a negative adjusted gross income (see how the little red boxes drop below zero).  “Little by little after a while makes a big pile.” --Anonymous
Over the course of a career, a professional learns a lot of new skills, new locations, new jobs, and new methods. Every time something new gets added to our learning agenda, we can either be excited at the opportunity or resentful of someone else changing our routine. Often we are also feeling too busy doing our normal routines to add in a new skill. While discussing new skills and ideas in our Water Cooler Chats, I remind myself that not everyone spends entire Sundays learning new skills or playing with new tools. However, I’m a big believer in doing so, and when I teach, I like to break new skills down into workable pieces. This method may also work for you if you are hoping to gain a new skill but also coping with continual interruptions, meetings, deadlines, and other demands. |
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