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7 Database Goals for Your Independent School’s Capital Campaign

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When evaluating your school’s readiness for a capital campaign, database readiness might not be at the top of the list for your campaign consultants or administration. Work closely with administrators to identify reports that need to be run and the metrics to track during the campaign, which will inform your fund setup and gift entry process.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

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However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program.

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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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5 Steps To Collecting Better Donor Data

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It will highlight which donation campaigns were more effective than others, what donors responded well to what, and most important, it holds the potential to greatly increase your donation potential you already have within your database. Fundraising Tech database donation donations donors nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech'

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Maybe that’s your Database Administrator, your CFO, or an office support staff person.

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Nonprofit Budgeting and Forecasting Made Easy with Fund Accounting Software

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You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. Effective budget documentation and management, copying and forecasting tools, efficient data entry, and enhanced budget checking, transforms your budget into a key diagnostic for your organization. But you want to make this year different.

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

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Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. This is not a long process.

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