Nonprofit Blog

Welcome to the Mockingbird Analytics blog—where we share practical tips, thoughtful reflections, and expert insights for growing, sustaining, and strengthening your nonprofit. Whether you're navigating grant funding, evaluating your impact, or building internal systems, our blog is here to support your mission with clarity and strategy.

Explore our latest posts below to discover new ideas, tools, and conversations designed to help your organization grow.

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Our Fall 2022 Incubator Seed Grant Winner: Period Kits Ohio

Next up, we’re highlighting Geoff Davis from Period Kits Ohio from our Incubator Program! Along with their community partners, Period Kits Ohio provides menstrual products to those living in “period poverty,” to ensure that no one who menstruates is without the resources they need. Geoff founded Period Kits Ohio in February 2022 when he moved there, after founding Period Kits Colorado and advising the foundation of Period Kits Minnesota. Read below for our interview!

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Our Spring 2022 Incubator Seed Grant Winner: The A&R Agency

The A&R Agency's objective is to elevate musical artists to the level of commercial success, through an array of independent artist development services offered a la carte. Each artist will receive an individualized success strategy, breaking down an artists’ most significant obstacles. Through this process, agency clients achieve specific goals such as an increase in listenership, fuller concert attendance, and creating a self-sustaining, lucrative career.

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Our Fall 2021 Incubator Seed Grant Winner: Freebird MVMT

This past fall, Freebird MVMT received $3,000 in funding from our partners to further their work. Their mission is to create an unprecedented crowd resource and technology platform, to prevent and remedy wrongful incarcerations, while providing support for exonerees. They work to address the profound injustices and disparity with respect to impartiality throughout the criminal justice system and society.

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2018, Year in Review!

Happy New Year! Now that grandma’s Christmas fudge has been devoured and the confetti’s been swept away, it’s time to dive into 2019. Before we get down to business, we’d like to take a misty, nostalgia-laden look back at what we achieved last year.

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2017: Year in Review!

Where did the year go? It’s already December, and you're not alone if you’re marveling at how quickly 2017 has passed before our eyes. Before we ring in the New Year with celebratory champagne and a round of Auld Lang Syne, let’s take a look back at how this year has shaped up for Mockingbird Analytics and nonprofit giving as a whole.

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