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Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job

Bloomerang

Her new fundraising job represents an exciting entry into a nonprofit sector different from her previous jobs in which she raised funds for three different Texas opera companies. Check out these 10 tips to help you thrive in your new fundraising job 1. Performance metrics should be both quantitative and qualitative.

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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

.orgSource

You want to be certain your data is secure, and you need to know that you are problem-solving with accurate information and statistics. Many of the data disasters I’ve seen result from well-intentioned employees trying to get a job done without the correct information about how to do it. Include benchmarks in goals and KPIs.

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Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: new chip, no problem

The Verge

Apple has tried to borrow some of its real-time image processing from the iPhone to try to spruce up the image — and I do find that it does a better job evenly lighting my face — but mostly what I notice is that it looks bad (only now it’s a more processed version of bad). We, of course, ran a suite of benchmarks.

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Starting with OpenAIs pivotal o1 model, researchers began to apply more computing power to the real-time reasoning a model does just after a user prompts it with a problem or question. The model generates PhD-level answers to complex questions, landing it on top of performance benchmark rankings. The Gemini 2.0

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Attention Nonprofit #DataNerds: A Few Recent Research Studies on Data, Technology, Funding, and Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my favorite sections of the site includes the benchmarking data for foundation use of social media by channel which makes it very easy to do research. The actions include improving jobs, the quality of education, children’s health and other innovations. You’ll find lots more benchmarking data in the report.

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How to hire and structure a growth team

TechCrunch

According to responses from product benchmarks surveys , growth teams have transitioned dramatically from reporting to marketing and sales to reporting directly to the CEO. I find that if problems don’t have a real owner, they’re not going to get solved. Image Credits: OpenView Partners. How do you hire an early growth leader?

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How VCs think: Is your startup a feature, a product or a business?

The Next Web

Bill Gurley from Benchmark Capital drew criticism after claiming Dropbox to be a “major disruption” because the team “had taken a hard problem – file synchronization — and made it brain dead simple” as disbelievers fell into the Steve Jobs camp that file sync is a feature, not a product.

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