Josh Birkholz

In recent months, we’ve received many questions from our great campaign fundraisers and institutional leaders about raising money in times of economic uncertainty. Certainly, anticipating the d...

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Our team at BWF compiled this research on trends in digital fundraising.  Whether you are in higher education, healthcare, human services, or the arts, this study is packed with relevant informa...

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Check out my latest whitepaper on 21st century giving. Digital and social giving are so much more than an annual giving channel or program novelty. We are on the sea and the waves of disruption ...

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Project Associate, Systems and Operations team As a Project Associate at BWF, you’ll use your expertise in in nonprofits and fundraising database management, and fundraising operations to he...

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Check out this paper written by my colleague Andy Schultz this past week. Fundraisers throughout our industry have increasingly relied on  data-driven approaches such as predictive modeling to...

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Calling All Nonprofit Analytics Professionals and Data Scientists!  BWF Insight would like to invite you to participate in our 2018 Fundraising Analytics Survey.  BWF Insight has conducted ...

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By Josh Birkholz Check out my latest paper on building major gift fundraising programs. Here is an excerpt. In this time of shifting economic realities, nonprofits throughout the globe real...

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INTEGRATED ANALYTICS DRIVES SUCCESS BWF Insight launched our 8th annual survey of the fundraising analytics community in May 2017. We sought to discover the trends in analytics methodology, ap...

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As I prepared speeches for the 2017 APRA Data Analytics Symposium and the Big Ten Fundraisers Institute , I took a look back on where we’ve come over the years.  As a now 20 year data science...

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AMAZON COMPLETES NEW SUSPENSION TANK TO HOUSE PSYCHIC BEINGS WHO FORESEE CUSTOMERS’ FUTURE ORDERS Probably my favorite Onion of 2017. SEATTLE—Explaining that the larger containment cent...

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Have you done it yet? Its quick and painless. Here is the link to our survey:   CALLING ALL NONPROFIT ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS AND DATA SCIENTISTS! Bentz Whaley Flessner would like to invite...

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It’s amazing that doing what you said you would actually builds donor confidence!!  Congratulations to World Vision for being so darn good at it.  And thanks to Forbes for the inspiring story...

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Barrett Christiansen’s post is right on target.  I’m proud to have him as a colleague at BWF . To read the entire post, click here.  Below is an excerpt. In the last 18-24 months, most of...

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Proud to be part of this Chronicle of Philanthropy Report How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want. By Nicole Wallace...

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2016 BWF Insight Fundraising Analytics Survey results. Full results Infographic in pdf format Thanks to the amazing prospect development and analytics consultant, Emma Hinke , for her ana...

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Happy “Independents” day from BWF

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My public radio interview this morning. 2015 was a record setting year for charitable giving.  Generous Americans gave an estimated $373.25 billion to a variety of causes, a 4.1 percent jump ...

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I wrote the following post to promote a recent presentation I gave at APRA Metro DC .  I am glad to call it my “second home” having most of my team in the DC area (still loving my Minnesota ...

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Fundraising Analytics “What we really do” - only 5 years past when they were cool #bltn

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…Calling All Nonprofit Analytics Professionals and Data Scientists! Bentz Whaley Flessner would like to invite you to participate in our 2016 Fundraising Analytics Survey . Bentz Whaley Fle...

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