3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs. Next, email marketing and multi-channel marketing systems. There’s a lot.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

To make it easy for you to navigate this article, we’ve broken our discussion into three helpful sections: Donor Databases for Small Nonprofits. Donor Databases for Medium-Sized Nonprofits. Donor Databases for Large Nonprofits. Let’s get started shopping for the perfect database!

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Organization Perhaps the most obvious, and really the most important, use for an event software system is that if used correctly, it can keep all financial aspects of the event organized and easily accessible. Improved Guest Experience When running my own event without a software system, the checkout lines were so long!

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Whole Whale

JULY 15, 2020

This article might save your Google Analytics developer a ton of time. There are also ways of hacking together systems that let you use the Google Analytics User Id by pushing your site’s user ID into GA. Then just enjoy as the system populates your customer connections to Google Analytics User Ids in your system over time.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This article aims to provide valuable insights and strategies to deepen the connection between congregants and their places of worship, fostering a sense of belonging and commitment, and enhanced stewardship giving. All this can be accomplished with a modern relationship management system. See the list for yourself.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Cloud computing systems can help speed up internet connections. Is your nonprofit’s old, and slow database hardware slowing down productivity? Switching to a cloud computing system is a great way to increase your internet speed, which was previously limited by clunky and aging hardware. What is the true cost of cloud computing.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Refers to data sets so large and complex that traditional database tools are not able to manage or process the data. Data brokers rely upon big data warehouses to store, manage and transfer data sets that they sell to customers such as nonprofit organizations looking to append their donor databases. Parse – [pahrs], verb.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

You must have your founding Board of Directors and officers selected prior to filing your Articles of Formation or Articles of Incorporation with the state. Prepare and file Articles of Incorporation. . Establish a bookkeeping system to account for cash receipts and cash disbursements, assets, and liabilities. .

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

[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. For many organizations, multiple systems can be a better fit.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. How cool, right?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this article, we’ll provide five tips that enable you to seamlessly integrate your nonprofit email and website marketing strategies. In addition to your volunteer page, you may drive traffic to blog articles, donation forms, or event registration pages depending on your organization’s current priorities and goals.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. This is great if you are planning to use a cloud system for one or two applications in your organization. Very low upfront costs.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

By way of qualification, our intent with this article is to be CRM agnostic. Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. Text fields are notorious in older CRMs and Access databases.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Here are a few examples of how AI can save you time while helping build better relationships: Streamline administrative tasks : When you’re juggling 100+ major donors in your portfolio, your whole day could be spent sorting through donor lists, sending emails, and updating multiple systems.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

This tool adds code to your site that connects IP addresses of traffic with a massive database of businesses. Connects the data in Google Analytics network reports with third-party databases of company information. This is a super robust marketing automation, sales, CRM system that has many features including direct user tracking.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This article will show you how to identify the right donors to focus on, how to nurture them, and how savvy fundraisers can find them in their existing data. But how do you spot generous donors, especially if you’re stuck using spreadsheets or outdated systems? But not everyone in your database is going to be ideal.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 25, 2022

To ensure your union invests in a platform that can help you achieve your goals, this article will explore the essentials of labor union management software through the following points: What is labor union management software? How does EveryAction’s union software benefit labor unions? Let’s begin. . What is labor union management software?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Your database is one of the most valuable assets for your organization. A good database is necessary to help you grow and provide better services to the community. This article was originally published at: [link] You cannot determine who can see all of the information and who can edit specific columns.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The required update will change this dynamic as you will now have to set which system is the primary of the Opted Out data, your two options are: Use Pardot’s value as the primary. You may not find it easy to choose one system over the other for the primary value. Use Salesforce’s value as the primary.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2009

Idealware just published a new article of mine, on a subject that comes up whenever I teach workshops for small nonprofits: "Why not use Excel as my donor database?". Tags: Databases Donors Donors Fundraising.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A lot of information is popping up about CRM , or Client Relationship Management systems. Is your development department using a database to manage your donors, while other departments (communications, volunteers etc.) A CRM system allows your nonprofit to streamline, become more effective, and make better use of its time.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 4, 2010

I received the following email from Keith Heller , a database consultant who works with Raiser's Edge and Common Ground clients: We’ve been involved with responding to many RFPs over the years and I have a general inquiry that is in your bailiwick. Techsoup article: The RFP Process: An Overview.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Answer: only what is stored in the donor database. 100% rely on 3 or more technology systems to conduct their campaigns. Nobody can complete an appeal using just 1 or 2 systems. 53% don’t know when was the last time that their donor database was cleaned. Nobody can complete an appeal using just 1 or 2 systems.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The Nonprofit Times recently published an article called Is It Donor Management Software Or Business Intelligence. I've heard countless organizations describe their donor databases as "roach motels" or "data vaults" -- the data goes in but it doesn't come out.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 14, 2014

Cloud technology offers nonprofits a cheap, efficient and secure online database and computing system already. Cloud systems offer nonprofits direct and indirect layers of security providing perks and problems to potential solutions you may have never considered.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Unsurprisingly, most organizations collect data through forms, questionnaires, surveys, databases, and customer relationship management systems. A recent Bloomerang article mentioned three metrics for measuring fundraising effectiveness : Total fundraising net focuses on whether a nonprofit made enough money to fund its mission.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Now, let’s talk about your donor database. Nobody gets rid of anything in your donor database. Filling up your database with bad data means you will spend that much more time and effort finding the data you need. Consider a nonprofit with 100,000 names in its donor database. When was the last time you cleaned it up?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2009

In case you've missed all the hub-bub in the mainstream media, all the tech junkies blogging their reviews of it, and the cutesy commercials touting the greatness of Windows 7, today is the day Microsoft's new operating system officially launched. Tags: Acquiring Technology Operating Systems Software Tech Planning Windows 7.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Some vendors of AMS systems built on Salesforce might give you the option of not purchasing a full Salesforce sandbox, which could sound appealing. Read the blog article, Don’t get caught without a Salesforce sandbox for your AMS. Organizations often struggle with the costs and risks involved with upgrading their AMS systems.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 3, 2010

Donor Databases. Idealware's "Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems" [link]. My own resources page: [link] It includes links to articles like: Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Ebook: [link]. Archive of their workshop at the NTEN conference: [link]. Social Media.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

To help your nonprofit understand the top benefits and features Salesforce can bring, this article will explore why growing nonprofits use Salesforce as their CRM and a few of its top features. Salesforce is a CRM (customer relationship management) system provider. Salesforce is a comprehensive system with an extensive array of apps.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

While it’s sometimes referenced from the perspective of grant recipients, in this article, we will just be speaking from the viewpoint of the grant funders. Throughout an application period, the grant candidates submit their proposals, which are then managed and categorized using document management systems or grant management software.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Identify your target market using your donor database or CRM system and develop a strategy around your market segments. Try sending out personalized letters through the traditional mail system signed in ink, or another personal way to show how much you appreciate their support of you. Make Your Donors Feel Personally Fulfilled.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

For example, a writer might ask an AI tool to outline an article about five reasons why donating is beneficial for the supporter’s health. Chatbot AIs are helpful for producing topic ideas for blog articles, presentations, videos, and other long-form content. Generate topic ideas.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 16, 2014

Bloomberg ran an interesting article recently about the negative impact of too much data on business and government. Members can read the article here. Use social media as a communications medium, not as an append to your donor database. #3. Save reports, save copies of old databases. Less is more. Donor retention.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Our automated tool “reads” about 300,000 media articles each day. We then use machine learning algorithms to identify a subset of each day’s articles (usually around 1,000) that relate to the social sector. Of this set of 176 organizations, 30 have been tagged as regrantors in our database.

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Media Cause

JUNE 8, 2023

If the records and data are in disarray, then time, resources, and effort have to be poured into making the data structure usable and reliable. A common obstacle for the intrepid Salesforce explorer is the existence of duplicates in the database. It happens more easily than you think. Will the Real Non-Duplicates Please Stand Up?

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