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Whether you’re using spreadsheets or Salesforce, little improvements can make a big difference. I help organizations collect, understand, and maintain their data.

Timeline Display

Salesforce announced Nonprofit Cloud a while back and lots of organizations now have to decide if they’re interested in migrating or not. For an organization with a mature NPSP instance, the cost of moving to Nonprofit Cloud is significant. I did have a user let me know that they found the timeline feature (described here…

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June 2025: Experimenting with Data Analyses

There’s a whole set of data analyses that can and should be done at almost any nonprofit, and getting those things set up and communicating about them is a priority when an organization is setting up a new system. Once that’s done, however, a lot of fundraisers have some very specific things they want to…

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April 2025: Retention

For the past 10 years, I’ve been having conversations with people about retention metrics. It is a really challenging thing to work on for a couple of reasons, none of which are technical! Any time an organization wants retention metrics, I’ve got to dig in to what they mean when they say retention. Is a…

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