Robert Weiner

AUGUST 19, 2009

The good folks at Aspiration have been working to put my list of donor databases into a wiki. Along the way the identified some that seem to have disappeared and weren't on my earlier list of defunct donor databases. Giving Database from Willow Mountain Consulting. Tags: Donor Databases. GivingCapital from Kintera.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

I thought it might be useful to compile a list of all of the commercial donor databases I’m aware of. This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). Giving Database.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 2, 2009

I attended three conferences in April and asked a variety of independent consultants and employees of consulting firms about how the economy is affecting them. The consultants I spoke to work on database implementations, capital campaigns, web design, marketing, and strategic planning. Tags: Consulting.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 30, 2012

Any BB staff or CG consultants care to chime in?). I'd thought Luminate CRM, Convio's other database, was in more danger since it had only a tenth as many clients, was more of a work-in-progress, and competed directly with Blackbaud's Enterprise CRM product. I don't know whether any data will disappear at that point.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 13, 2010

I received an email newsletter today with the following pitch for a web-based donor database (perhaps you can guess which one): The Cloud offers you constituent relationship management (CRM) software that's less expensive, easier to maintain, more accessible, more intuitive, and with greater flexibility and capacity than you've ever seen before.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

I’ve also been compiling a list of every donor database I come across at https://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661. I’m currently working with clients that are considering Blackbaud and Convio’s database products (among others). I’m more concerned about the top end of the market.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset. An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more.

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