Great news! It’s been 12 years since we founded WaterGrass, and along the way we’ve gathered some 200 organization/years of anonymized data on donor and volunteer behavior. There’s surely a lot to learn in it, but we’ve been too busy developing new features to really dig as we’d like to. Now Dr. Phani Kidampi of […]
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Every organization needs one – that person who keeps the data straight, ferrets out duplicate records, nags you to update the addresses you’ve kept in your rolodex and Excel spreadsheets – you know who I’m talking about … the Data Maven! At WaterGrass we’ve worked with lots of them. Picky picky picky. But so vital […]
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At WaterGrass, we provide fundraising and volunteer management tools to small and growing nonprofits, and our users allow us to review their data for insights (we keep everyone anonymous). Last year was tumultuous and we were a little apprehensive about how our users fared. Now that the 2020 end-of-year fundraising is past, we selected ten […]
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Great news! One of WaterGrass’ goals has been to analyze our anonymized, aggregate data in order to learn about trends and best practices for individual fundraising. From our analysis we’ve learned things like: Organizations with formal membership programs raise more per donor than organizations which don’t. The median donor gives to WaterGrass a little less […]
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