Fundmetric

02/19/2026

We’re proud to continue our partnership with CASE as an educational partner. 🎓️

We’re excited to keep supporting the professionals and institutions in this community with insights, tools, and practical education that help them move forward. 😊

02/12/2026

What does the advancement office of the future look like? 🤔

Higher education is under pressure... shifting demographics, funding uncertainty, rising expectations, and rapid technological change.

Advancement is moving from a supporting function to a strategic engine. 💡

Philanthropy will help drive relevance by:
🎓️ Connecting students to meaningful careers
🎓️ Strengthening ties between employers and academia
🎓️ Demonstrating the societal value of education beyond a diploma

Philanthropy sits at the intersection of vision, capital, and influence... fuelling access, research, innovation, and building institutions that endure.

02/02/2026

✨ Data Capital: The Endowment for the AI Era.

Centuries ago, universities built financial endowments to protect the mission long-term.

Now? The next big asset is data.

We're excited to share that Fundmetric was recently featured in AGB’s Trusteeship magazine with an article written by Rachel Crosbie: “Data Capital: The Endowment for the AI Era.”

The big idea is simple: 📈 Data compounds.

That context creates insight.

And insight leads to smarter outreach… which creates even more meaningful engagement over time.

But just like an endowment, it only works if you actually treat it like an asset:
✅ capture it
✅ connect it
✅ govern it
✅ reinvest what you learn
✅ build trust + transparency so people want to share it ✨

12/11/2025

A Giving Day doesn’t end when the clock runs out. It should mark the beginning of deeper, more targeted engagement.

Giving days bring out first-time donors, re-engage alumni, energize students, and activate the community in ways few other campaigns can.

This community aspect is key to making your Giving Day momentum last all year. ✨

A Giving Day's success goes beyond dollars raised, the real impact is a community multiplier effect that reaches far past the day’s totals.

11/20/2025

AI isn’t on the horizon anymore and has quickly moved from "emerging" to “everyday.” We're seeing three big shifts happening across advancement:

Urgency has increased. 🚨
The gap between organizations that adapt and those that don’t is widening faster.

The need for personalization is growing. 🌱
People want to be part of a dialogue, not a broadcast. Outside-in over inside-out.

Teams are thinking more long-term. ⌛️
More often, conversations are about what the next decade will look like, not just next quarter or even next year.

Organizations can strengthen their future readiness by embracing new thinking, personalization, and investing in the long term.

11/13/2025

BIG Data gets a lot of attention.

The ability to collect, store, and analyze data on a large scale was a breakthrough in technology innovation and intelligence. ML models need huge amounts of data to perform well. But sometimes smaller, well-curated datasets are really effective for specific objectives, and that means that sometimes ... better data beats more data.

Here's why curated data can be super effective for business outcomes:
Well-curated data leads to big impact because it’s targeted and focuses on what’s most relevant. With more specific datasets, a model can tune itself to your organization’s objectives, keeping ML aligned with strategy, not just statistics. 😎

11/07/2025

Platform Shifts redefine how value is created. The internet did it. Mobile did it. AI is doing it now.

It’s the time when new business models and architectures are being invented, and when the foundations of long-term advantage are quietly being built. The underlying assumptions about how value is created, how decisions are made, and how organizations learn are being rewritten.

Every true platform shift changes the foundation, not the surface. The internet didn’t “add on” to existing business models; it rewrote them. Mobile didn’t enhance the web; it redefined access itself.

The internet was optional… until it wasn’t.
Mobile was optional… until it wasn't.
New business models were optional… until they weren't.

The AI platform shift is inevitable. AI transformation is a requirement for relevance and leadership in the next era. Human creativity flourishes under necessity, when a problem must be solved, and it’s through necessity that we will all see success.

10/31/2025

Ever wonder what happens when your giving platform and email system actually talk to each other? 👀

Every click, open, and gift suddenly becomes more than just a data point... it becomes insight. Real connection.

When your systems communicate, you unlock actionable data that fuels AI and machine learning, letting you personalize outreach and even predict giving behavior.

10/01/2025

💡 Your CRM isn’t broken.
It’s just being forced to do a job it was never designed for.

Just like a drawer, it keeps things in order so you can pull them out when needed. That’s where CRMs shine, recording interactions and keeping history tidy.

But drawers aren’t built to squeeze value out of what’s inside.

That’s where a data hub comes in handy. Providing data connectivity, running analytics, and powering intelligence.

👉 Let the CRM be the drawer.
👉 Let the data hub be the engine that turns records into insights, action, and innovation.

09/25/2025

True personalization is about relevance, timing, and context.

Learn Your Way, a new research experiment at Google, explores how AI can transform educational materials to create a personalized learning experience for every student. Early indicators show personalization boosts student outcomes, and the same is true in fundraising.

Leverage 5 elements of hyper-personalization that actually move the needle:

People engage more when experiences are personalized because personalization helps overcome two of the biggest constraints we all live with: limited attention and the need for relevance. Simply inserting someone’s first name in an email or addressing them by “Dear [First Name]” is only scratch...

09/18/2025

AI is so much more than just the algorithm. 🤓 ☝️

The AI journey starts long before that, with the data.
Data Collection → An algorithm won't predict behavior out of thin air.
Data Connectivity→ Without connected data, AI only sees pieces of the picture.
Context & Training → Raw numbers alone don’t create insight.
Action & Feedback Loops → AI becomes valuable when predictions inform real-world actions, and those actions feed back into better predictions.

Algorithm = engine.
Data = fuel, road, and driver that actually make AI move. 🏎️ ✨

If there's no road, there's no journey.