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Ask Maureen: Cleaning Up a Messy Fundraising Database

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Dear Maureen, My organization’s fundraising database is a hot mess! We’ve had some turnover on our development team, and it seems like every person has used the system differently. There are no rules, and that means our database is almost useless. It’s time to get your team on the same page about how the database should be used.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Nonprofit Database Segmentation

Neon CRM

Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement. What You Can Do With Nonprofit Database Segmentation Broadly, nonprofit database segmentation is the process of breaking your donors into specific categories based on the information you know about them.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 203: The Ever-Changing Role of Database Administrators

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Why DBA is an important and interesting area to work right now. The different types of people needed to work in the area. Promoting Your Value as a Database Administrator. Confessions of a Database Administrator. Confessions of a Database Administrator, Part II. Cross-functional teams. Luis Morales.

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Fundraising CRM vs. Fundraising Platform: What’s the difference?

Qgiv

And what’s the difference between a fundraising CRM and a fundraising platform? This blog post will break down what a fundraising CRM is, what a fundraising platform is, and the key differences between them. A nonprofit CRM is a donor database where information about your donors is stored. Meet DonorPerfect. Give Qgiv a try.

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Database 101: How to Improve Your Nonprofit Donor Database for Fundraising Success

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Tricia Marsherall is the Founder & President of Marsherall Partners, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in nonprofit donor database management & operations support and virtual & traditional fundraising events. This makes it difficult to know where to start when you’d like to turn your database nightmare into a pleasant dream.

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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

It’s about a nonprofit I once worked with. There are lots of different fundraising systems your nonprofit can (and should) have in place: A prospecting system. Fundraising systems allow your staff to do more work with less hassle. Systems bridge the gap and allow few people to do more work with less financial investment.

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New Year’s Resolutions For Your Website in 2024

The MatrixFiles

Meet with your membership database and marketing team to map the member join process and map the journey. A decision could be: Delete all but the last three years of news, or delete all but the last two years of annual meeting information (except session handouts, which will live in a separate database). Where are the friction points?

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