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Donald Pendagast

A full-time MBA student at UConn concentrating in Business Analytics working on research in organizational design, self-management, workplace autonomy, and innovation.

📍 Hartford, CT

A Custom Excel Function To Calculate RF(M) Scores For Fundraisers

To accompany a guest post with Gravyty, I want to share an Excel function we wrote to take your entire constituency and generate a Recency-Frequency score for each individual. This function is like other built-in functions you may have used in Excel, except that we’ve programmed it to do

On becoming obsolete

Technology comes to mind. That computer which won’t boot up in less than 10-seconds. That car without integrated Bluetooth. What about humans? Last week — during a conference in Indianapolis I attended — someone remarked over dinner how these old men were complaining about the millennials. And how out of touch

An indirect measure on computer sales

It’s official. I have seen it too many times now. People don’t know how to type on a traditional, physical American QWERY keyboard. Too often I’ve now seen people puzzled, looking for their familiar iOS mobile keyboard “where is the at-sign?” (answer Shift-2) or even tapping on

What you measure is what you get

If you are looking to improve year-over-year, it’s a good idea to know what that improvement looks like. Typically, we go straight for total dollars raised or aggregate participation rate. But in most situations we aren’t expecting huge gains, instead we are looking for many smaller wins to