I wanted to make a clean and easy online gift range calculator for my own fundraising. Then I realized that all of the nonprofits, individuals, and development directors I know who raise donations.
So I called up my friend Gab Aguirre (who may well translate my soon-to-be-debut novel into Spanish). He’s an engineer and a statsy-data type. I asked him if there was a simple way to turn a normal bell curve distribution into a calculator.
Some folks would call this a gift range chart calculator.
Or a gift range pyramid.
He said, “Sure.”
It’s really simple, really elegant, and Excel-based. Just plug in your total donation amount in the red number box and hit enter.
And make to share this online gift range calculator post with your friends. All of your colleagues will likely benefit
Therefore, also be sure to thank Gab in the comments. He’s a great friend, a great help, a great friend to friends. For years in the oil industry he saw what it did, and decided to get out. Now he does a completely different kind of large project management for nonprofits. He’s the sort of guy I would desperately hope to have on my team — any team — for any sort of large scale endeavor.
As a side note: I myself have returned to this gift
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