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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). This is not a blog. Well, not in the write-a-thoughtful-and-insightful-post- every-couple-of-days. This is really just a place where I can expound on various ideas related to management. That said… Enjoy! PS I should mention that while I sometimes refer to my employer, and much of what I write is informed by my work there, all writings here are my own th...

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How to Get Ahead in this C-Average World | Managing Prospect Research

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). Three Reasons Why Research Request Forms Are a Terrible Idea. Hiring Prospect Researchers →. How to Get Ahead in this C-Average World. January 29, 2014. Prelude: When I started thinking about this post, I was very much in a cranky-old-man/what-is-wrong-with-people/ “well-if- I. Lately I have been in more than one situation where someone wasn’t doing something as well as they. And who knows how many m...

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Things you think you can do without training | Managing Prospect Research

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). Flirting with “dangerous” data tracking practices. The most important thing you do as a manager →. Things you think you can do without training. November 6, 2012. Creating visual aids for presentations (e.g., powerpoint decks). Writing (emails and otherwise). These are important things that we might do every single day! Or doing annual reviews? Much less getting focused training). Flirting with &#822...

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The problem with data visualizations | Managing Prospect Research

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). Make it pretty: Why you need to spend time making things look good. The five best free prospect research resources →. The problem with data visualizations. April 3, 2013. A couple months ago, I was reading through some materials about a company’s financial health, and they included a dual axis chart showing the company’s Revenue and EBITDA from 2008 to 2014 (projected). (See below.). As consumers of ...

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The Worst Thing about the APRA Conference | Managing Prospect Research

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). Capacity Ratings are Actually Small Sedans. Doing More with More →. The Worst Thing about the APRA Conference. July 14, 2015. Next week, 1,000 of the smartest professionals in the fundraising industry will convene in New Orleans for the 2015 APRA International Conference. All of this said, there is one thing that I dread about conferences: small talk. The hard part about this is getting the conversat...

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Capacity Ratings are Actually Small Sedans | Managing Prospect Research

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). The Worst Thing about the APRA Conference →. Capacity Ratings are Actually Small Sedans. December 8, 2014. I read a recent blog post entitled Why Capacity Ratings are Bunk and What You Can Do About It, ( check it out here. Which suggested to me that some folks in the Development world are thinking about capacity ratings wrong. 8211; It will not seat 366 people comfortably! However, a person could str...

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Management and Prospect Research in Nonprofit Fundraising. About: What This Blog Is (and what it is not). Newer posts →. The problem with data visualizations. April 3, 2013. You’ve probably heard the skeptical aphorism about statistics: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Unfortunately, I worry that we may soon hear data visualization tacked on to that list as the fourth and most deceiving way of communicating information. This is a problem. Why should we care about this?