Trends in Technology
Jason Boley
CASE SIAS 2019

A Seat at the Table

Extreme data collection

Impact Reporting and Investing

Integrating Technology into Stewardship

security

• Social engineering
• Protecting donor information
• Cyber defense against hackers
• More spending on security products

caging/lockbox outsourcing of gift processing.

crowd fundraising

• Maturation cycle continues.
• Uberization of fundraising
• Innovation and marketing key
• Crowdfunding was expected to surpass venture funding in 2016, surpassed $100M in 2018.

Cloud Infrastructure

software as a service

Social Fundraising

Mobile growth

• Responsive web forms
• Multi-channel giving
• Text to give and mobile donation buttons
• Mobile apps
• 66% of all email is now opened on mobile phones.

Email Deliverability

Concentrated Wealth

• While the total campaign dollars raised by the top 10% of donors slightly declined between 2013 and 2015, from 94% to 92%, the importance of the top 1% of donors increased.
• Between 2006 and 2015, the top 1% of donors increased from providing 64% of campaign funds to providing 79% of campaign funds.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

change and project management

Device mesh

gamification

• physical challenges
• rewards and recognition
• behavioral motivation
• puzzle solving
• crowdfunding, p2p

Corporate Marketing

mainstream analytics

• Advanced donor targeting
• Donor conversion
• Real-time modeling
• Staff analysis
• Impact

donor advised funds

• increased usage
• mobile management
• lack of transparency
• stewardship woes
• donor who give through dafs contribute at higher percentage to higher education (Giving USA)

Cost to acquire donors is increasing

Artificial Intellgence

machine learning

Dynamic reporting

Trump Effect

• Uncertainty in philanthropy.
• Unclear impact on tax reform.
• Cuts to some organization, but rallying cries have invigorated other sectors.