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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

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Where can we access your Donor Data Management Dictionary? Security: Who has access to donor data? QUESTION: You referenced terms that we are unfamiliar with, like “data governance” and “data degradation”… and you mentioned a dictionary. GARY: It’s on our website: [link]. update and enrich data?

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

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The vendor, however, can usually access the database directly to complete data migration work that the importer ‘stubbornly’ won’t process 100%. For data that you ‘retire’, export it into a usable format, like an Access database for Excel spreadsheet, so you can refer to it later if needed.

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What’s up with consumer data privacy?

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For example, consumers by law have access to credit reports used in making financial decisions about the consumer. It’s time for consumers to have access to the collection of data used by marketers, argues the Post. In particular, the Post’s Editorial Board calls for greater transparency for consumers when it comes to data.

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Technology, data and fundraising: is it getting too complicated?

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What about access to great data that helps us to understand the outcomes being produced by our programs and to know our donors and their interests better? The question: Is it easier or more complicated to execute a fundraising campaign today than it was 5 or 10 years ago? The answer is overwhelmingly ‘more complicated’ Ouch!

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Fundraising without donor data: What’s that proverb about giving a man a fish?

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But often, it’s the United Way that is protecting or preventing access to the donor data. He sums up the predicament this way: Yes, it is true that many donors like to give through the workplace because they can give without their personal information being released to charities. ’ In those cases, both sides lose.

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Fundraising without donor data: What’s that proverb about giving a man a fish?

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But often, it’s the United Way that is protecting or preventing access to the donor data. He sums up the predicament this way: Yes, it is true that many donors like to give through the workplace because they can give without their personal information being released to charities. ’ In those cases, both sides lose.

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Fundraising without donor data: What’s that proverb about giving a man a fish?

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But often, it’s the United Way that is protecting or preventing access to the donor data. He sums up the predicament this way: Yes, it is true that many donors like to give through the workplace because they can give without their personal information being released to charities. ’ In those cases, both sides lose.

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