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Turning Big Data Into Donations

No subject on the Harvard Business Review blog has gotten more airtime recently than the subject of “big data.” It was a fairly foreign term just a few years ago, but now commercial firms everywhere (and evensome nonprofits) are wondering how they can translate customer data into sales. For donation-driven nonprofits, the question is the [...]

Pursuant Selected a Winner in the 34th Annual Telly Awards

Dallas, TX – May 14, 2013 – Pursuant, a full-service comprehensive fundraising and communications consulting firm, has been named a nine-time winner for the 34th Annual Telly Awards. “The Telly Award has a mission to honor the very best in film and video,” said Linda Day, executive director of the Telly Awards. “Pursuant’s accomplishment illustrates [...]

Database Developer Intern

The Database Developer Intern plays an important role in the development and analysis of Pursuant’s SmartData Warehouse System. The analysis done using the SmartData system allows Pursuant to more intelligently raise funds, acquire names, and create strategies so that our non-profit clients can better carry out their mission. The Database Developer Intern’s goal is to solve [...]

Junior Database Developer

The Junior Database Developer plays an important role in the development and analysis of Pursuant’s SmartData Warehouse System. The analysis done using the SmartData system allows Pursuant to more intelligently raise funds, acquire names, and create strategies so that our non-profit clients can better carry out their mission. The Jr Database Developer’s goal is to [...]

In the Mind of the Donor

In the Mind of the Donor: Changing Retention Realities Through Strategic Stewardship

What is “normal” is too easily comfortable, and what is comfortable too often becomes expected. Raising more money from fewer donors is not normal; it is an indictment. And it’s not an indictment of acquisition efforts; rather, the nonprofit sector has been doing an abysmal job of retaining donors. This “trend” is really a reflection [...]

Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University MAKES ITS MARK IN DONOR ACQUISITION Pepperdine University partnered with Pursuant to create a fully integrated, multichannel campaign resulting in nearly 200 new donors Client ProfilePepperdine University is a preeminent Christian university known for its integration of faith and learning, and its graduates who lead lives of purpose and service throughout the world. [...]

Driving Success by Thinking Beyond Functional Silos

The way that today’s organizations have structured their teams, targets, and budgets has inadvertently created barriers to growing overall revenue by incenting teams to focus on growing donors and dollars only within their own functional areas. Focusing our efforts on donor-centric strategies that will not only upgrade donors across levels and types of giving, but [...]

VP Sales, Higher Education

The Vice President (VP) Sales, Higher Education is responsible for new business revenue delivery in the Higher Education vertical. The VP Sales develops and implements selling strategies to achieve established sales targets. The VP Sales possesses the ability to communicate industry best practices in fund raising strategies and institutional advancement by staying abreast of current and emerging trends, competitive [...]

Development Officer

Based in any major U.S. metropolitan area, the Development Officer (DO) will report to the Vice President, Fundraising Services and will be responsible for directing mid-level and major giving programs with clients in various non-profit market segments, including Greek and Higher Education. These services typically supplement the efforts of the client’s in house development personnel. [...]