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[ASK AN EXPERT] What is the Best Way to Acquire Donor Phone Numbers?

Bloomerang

Dear Charity Clairity, Do you have any tips for acquiring phone numbers? Dear Call Me Maybe, You’re certainly on the right track wanting to make phone calls to donors. A tried-and-true way to acquire phone numbers is to ask repeatedly, every place you can think of. And the information can be outdated or incorrect.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. I have a story that we have used quite often: A few years ago, we imported a shadow database into Raiser''s Edge.

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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

Mobile optimization —M+R’s Benchmarks for the year 2022 found that “users on mobile devices (including both phones and tablets) accounted for 57% of nonprofit website traffic.” You can harness this power by making it easy for them to fill out an advocacy form and contact the decision-makers who need to hear from them with targeted messages.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule. Consider the level of database training the user has. Blackbaud Grantmaking user?

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Top 12 Features Membership Organizations & Associations Should Look for in a CRM

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Trying to enter all this information manually can be exhausting, especially once membership numbers start to boom. The fields on a CRM are the points of information that you will be collecting about your customers. However, most industries will have specific pieces of information that they want to collect. Mobile Phone Access.

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What Are You Doing with Your Donor Data?

Greater Giving

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. You collect information at every turn, whether someone fills out your donation form, registers for an event, interacts with you on social media, or browses your website. Fill In Gaps With Data Appends.

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Empowering Faith-Based Organizations With Innovative Donor Management

Bloomerang

Taking inspiration from divine connections The challenge of outdated systems Sharon Tennyson, Distribution Coordinator for Adventist Review Magazine , the flagship journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, encountered a significant hurdle with their previous donor database. “We We had a homemade database for managing our donors.