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Coffee: Mexico Oaxaca La Cañada
November 26, 2017

The description card reads, "DELICIOUSNESS: Baked apple, bittersweet chocolate, toasted sesame".

Vulnerabilities and Growing Old
March 13, 2017

As a 30-something, it is sometimes hard to fathom what our parents go through — empathy be damned. My father always said old age is tough, but with shows and documentaries being done on dying with dignity and physician assisted suicide it is something I

Grammar Pet-Peeve
February 21, 2017

I am the last person who should be writing about the English language, but here it goes.The use of less when we really mean fewer. What do I mean? Here is a real-life example in the wild brought to you by Tide.

3 Quick Hacks To Be More Data-Driven
February 20, 2017

This post originally appeared on Gravyty.People in fundraising are always asking us if there is a quick fix — a silver bullet. I'm afraid to report: there isn't, contrary to what so

Words Matter
February 19, 2017

Take this scenarios: You’re at a restaurant, the waiter spills your soup, accidentally sloshing a bit of it over the side of the bowl. He asks if you want another one. (I just witnessed this while waiting in the Atlanta airport.)How inclined are yo

A Custom Excel Function To Calculate RF(M) Scores For Fundraisers
February 18, 2017

To accompany a guest post with Gravyty, I want to share an Excel function we wrote to take your entire constituency and generate a Recency-Frequency score for each individual.This function is like other built-in functions you may have used in Excel, excep

On Becoming Obsolete
February 17, 2017

Technology comes to mind. That computer which won’t boot up in less than 10-seconds. That car without integrated Bluetooth. What about humans?Last week — during a conference in Indianapolis I attended — someone remarked over dinner how these ol

What You Measure Is What You Get
February 16, 2017

If you are looking to improve year-over-year, it’s a good idea to know what that improvement looks like.Typically, we go straight for total dollars raised or aggregate participation rate. But in most situations we aren’t expecting huge gains, instead

An Indirect Measure On Computer Sales
February 16, 2017

It’s official. I have seen it too many times now. People don’t know how to type on a traditional, physical American QWERY keyboard. Too often I’ve now seen people puzzled, looking for their familiar iOS mobile keyboard “where is the at-sign?” (a