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Excel (Tuesday 10th August)
A one day course aimed at beginners and intermediate users of Excel. From understanding the Excel environment the course takes the delegates through building spreadsheets and formatting information. The second half of the day will focus on formulae for carrying out simple everyday tasks and presenting data using graphs and charts. The course ends with an overview of pivot tables.
This is a practical course and will require the use of a laptop which is to be provided by the delegate. Sample data and all course material will be provided on the day by the course leader.
Excel Pivots (Thursday 16th September)
This is a half day course aimed at people who are confident with the basic use of Excel, but have yet to tackle pivot tables. Pivots are data summarisation tables which can quickly and easily unlock key pieces of information about your data that would otherwise be hidden. With a bit of expert guidance and a dash of know-how, the drag-and-drop functionality of Excel pivot tables is easy to learn. This course reveals the mysteries of pivot tables with lots of practical work using samples of different types of fundraising specific data.
This is a practical course and will require the use of a laptop which is to be provided by the delegate. Sample data and all course material will be provided on the day by the course leader.
Attrition (Wednesday 4th August)
Even though attrition is a key measure of fundraising performance, there is often little understanding of what attrition is and how it should be measured. This one day course, aimed at people who work in the non-analysis side of fundraising, aims to bust some of the myths that surround attrition and provide no-nonsense advice and straightforward examples of best practice.
This is a practical course and will require the use of a laptop which is to be provided by the delegate.
Sample data and all course material will be provided on the day by the course leader.
Campaign Analysis, Testing & Targeting (Wednesday 25th August)
This is a comprehensive, one-day course for direct marketers and data analysts covering: Fundraising KPIs, the dangers of using the average gift as a KPI, outliers, setting price points, significance testing, indices, z-scores, break even, confidence levels, building a simple weighted model, supporter profiling and ‘Who is your 10 year donor?’
This is a practical course and will require the use of a laptop which is to be provided by the delegate.
Sample data and all course material will be provided on the day by the course leader.
Prices:
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½ day |
1 day |
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IoF Individual member |
£45 |
£80 |
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Charity |
£55 |
£95 |
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Commercial |
£60 |
£115 |