I was honored and excited to be part of Ron Lieber’s New York Times column, Taking Fund-Raising To a New Level. Some of you might now be wondering why, since it did raise some questions about the scope of my passion in support of my vocations – professional fundraising and prospect research. The simple reason [...]

The following is an excerpt taken from The Supporter Journey which will be available in October at www.blackbaud.com/DesktopReference In the early days of building predictive modeling services for nonprofits, I was hoping to prove that there are two separate concepts — likelihood to give and capacity to give — that we could statistically combine in [...]

I just arrived home from the APRA Conference in Anaheim. Once again, another fabulous conference highlighted by great presentations and workshops on cutting edge issues as well as basic training for newcomers to the profession. No professional organization does it better than APRA! For more than a decade I have attended this conference and have [...]