Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

I’ve been getting to know Amazon S3 lately, and there are some great things about it. We have a script going which runs by cron daily to do the backups. One of the scripts we’ve use is here. (We Tags: CMS Linux amazon aws backup drupal s3. We also use rsync.)

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the old days, getting data out of one system and moving it into a data warehouse or central data store required ad-hoc scripting, couldn’t accommodate real-time connections and updates, and was really difficult to manage over time. Tools we recommend at this stage include Google Big Query , Amazon Redshift , and Snowflake.

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Data Tools Management Effective 68

Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

In the old days, getting data out of one system and moving it into a data warehouse or central data store required ad-hoc scripting, couldn’t accommodate real-time connections and updates, and was really difficult to manage over time. Tools we recommend at this stage include Google Big Query , Amazon Redshift , and Snowflake.

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Data Tools Management Effective 47

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2019

To provide some “oomph,” there might be some slight variation or a special “variable” paragraph in the direct mail/email/telemarketing script that references something specifically about that donor: Monthly donor (< Thank you for your monthly gift that helps us saves lives every month>). Always watch out for coming off as creepy.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We like Amazon gift cards. Once we identify what questions we want to answer, I’ll fashion a script for a moderated usability test to guide the conversation during the course of the test. Those that meet your criteria are then asked for their contact information and you can follow-up with them for the card sort.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. Do not go to Amazon, because Amazon has old versions. But hopefully, some of you have it in hand, that’d be great.

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Money Personal Relationship Raise 102

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

There’s the Amazon list or the deal-of-the-day. ” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. In November I want you to set up all of your acknowledgments, your email autoresponder, your thank you cards, your thank you scripts.

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