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Choosing a Marketing Automation Application for Your Nonprofit: 5 Steps to Success

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Yet, in order to connect your message to your donors, supporters, and volunteers at scale, you’ll need a marketing automation application. Below, we’ll talk you through the steps to follow so you and your team find an application you love — at a cost that doesn’t break the bank. They are certain to be compelled by your cause.

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6 Qualities A Nonprofit Database Management System Should Have

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Nonprofits use databases to handle volunteers, donors, staff, and more. For smaller nonprofits, a database may be nothing more than an Excel file. Medium to large nonprofits might have an IT staff and a simple database, designed by the in-house development team. A good system is one that makes maintenance easy.

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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

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Database are extremely useful in simplifying business operations, communication, and workflow for both the for-profit sector and nonprofit sector. Nonprofits and charities use databases to manage donor, volunteer, and B2B profiles and aggregate data. But of course, a good database can go down-hill if it is not properly maintained.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. We cannot interface with other desired applications.

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Maybe It’s Not Your Database, It’s You

Robert Weiner

I'm working on an article with the title, "Maybe It's Not Your Database, It's You." The premise is that complaints about an organization's database may be misdirected: the problem is how the system is being managed (aka management problems disguised as technology problems). Here are my thoughts so far. What am I missing?

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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

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The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. However, developing these conversational AI applications in a robust, scalable, and efficient way is no easy task.

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We’ve all heard about blockchain, or at least its most famous application – bitcoin. At its core blockchain is a database technology. What makes blockchain unique as a database, however, is its distributed nature. Each node is required to verify transactions and store the same records in the database it hosts.