Thoughts about the nonprofit sector
2018 was a massive year for Wisely full of huge learnings and successes big and small. From talking with our clients and a wider, informal survey of employees in the charitable sector, we found some recurring themes around the common issues and bad habits that fundraising teams regularly encounter. As we close out 2018, we’re …
I recently attended the AFP Toronto conference which brings together a thousand fundraisers into the same room to educate and inspire the best in the sector. This year’s theme was “Disrupt Philanthropy”. Disrupting philanthropy is arguably the most challenging but important message for our industry. Innovation in fundraising has been a long-running bailiwick of mine, …
Confessions of a Fundraiser and Salesperson at AFP Congress 2018 Read More »
Too often, we expect not-for-profits to maintain an impossible balancing act. Save the world on a shoestring budget. Not-for-profits tackle the challenges the for-profit sector cannot or does not address. They fund cancer research, fight for civil rights, foster education, and thousands of other missions that change the world. With so much on the line, …
Ease of Deployment, Built-in ML Health and Production Model Governance Key Factors in the Selection Process SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 24, 2018 – ParallelM, a rapidly growing company pioneering the machine learning operationalization (MLOps) space, today announced that Wisely, a provider of AI-powered fundraising solutions for not-for-profits, has selected ParallelM’s MCenter to operationalize its machine learning. With …
I’m sure to some it probably just sounds like a case of semantics: calling an organization a nonprofit or a not-for-profit. Potato, po-tah-to. “What’s in a name?” as Shakespeare once said. But, in fact, the names we use have real and far-reaching implications. The language with which we talk about ourselves and our work is …
