The Jay Love Blog

The Jay Love Blog: "My next two meetings were with key sub-groups of the AFP conference. First, I attended the early morning gathering of the technology vendors associated with The Urban Institute and AFP’s FEP or Fund Raising Effectiveness project. Several of us at eTapestry were instrumental in helping start this project where the gathering actual live data from thousands of non-profits using commercial database software is done. A key executive level report from eTapestry our 'Giving Dynamics' report became the fulcrum of the project. (I pasted in an example of that original report below.) In addition, for the first few years nearly 90% of the data came from eTapestry/Blackbaud customers as non SaaS vendors either moved to the SaaS world or they figured out how to extract data so they could share too."