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How To Track Everyone Who's Anyone To You: Is A Single Database Right for Your Org?

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. The ability to easily see how all your constituents interact with your organization, and with each other, makes for an attractive, ideal vision of what a database should be. These are the people you need to track.

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Major Gifts and a $260,000 Online Donation

NetWits

In fact, Blackbaud’s 2011 Online Giving Report , noted that the largest online gift in 2011 was $260,000 ! The report further noted, “87% of the nonprofits in this analysis had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more during 2011.”. I would suggest that is not only poor database coding but it’s not major gifts fundraising.

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A Guide to Donor Retention

Bloomerang

We recommend investing in software that will help you track this retention rate each and every year so that you not only get today’s retention rate, but also an overview of how well your retention rate is improving over time. . This can make a huge impact on the number of donors in your donor database from year to year.

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2011 NTC Preview: 6 Steps to Refocus Your Small Org Tech Strategy

NTEN

Is our current database meeting our data, tracking and process needs? You can learn more at my session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , " Small Org Doesn't Equal Small Tech ". But how often do you step back to ask questions like: How can use our website to communicate differently? Work intentionally, with velocity.

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10 TeamRaiser and Online Marketing Tips for 2011

Connection Cafe

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Is it being used?

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. There are many types of technology and other management tools available to assist in this process, and now is the time to take stock of your technology and the tools you are going to use to track your data.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Using "Customer/Jobs" and "Classes" Utilities

Tech Soup

QuickBooks is a relational database, and as such it offers a few ways to flag (or relate) transactions such as invoices, cash receipts, bills, cash disbursements, and journal entries to Customer/Jobs (funding sources) and Classes (programs). Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011. 2011 NEH Grant.

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