Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Our friends at Idealware and NTEN have released their Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems. The guide presents detailed comparisons of 33 donor databases that cost less than $4,250 in the first year. Full disclosure — I contributed to the report and am one of the consultants listed.).

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To make it easier, we’ve organized the components of a nonprofit business plan into three categories based on your responsibilities: Board Support and Guidance Vision and Values Alignment Financial and Resource Planning Executive Summary: A brief overview of the nonprofit’s mission, goals, and strategies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Today, this font size and large quantity of content would visually overwhelm supporters and donors. These new tools helped nonprofits create change and awareness, but online advocacy also enabled nonprofits to significantly grow their database of contacts for both print and online funding appeals.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

If using these new technologies effectively, nonprofit professionals can speed up their ability to build relationships with supporters, analyze donor data , and create sustainable fundraising plans. Donor Analytics Tools Nonprofits need to know who their donors are, what gift amounts to request, and when and how to request those gifts.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Constituent relationship management (CRM) refers to the various processes that nonprofits use to steward and build relationships with donors, volunteers, advocates, members, and other constituents to secure ongoing support. CRM software equips nonprofits with a plethora of tools to help them better connect with supporters of all kinds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence is providing enormous labor-saving help to fundraisers, helping them research prospects, talk to donors, and increase retention rates. Take for example, the mundane and time-consuming task of culling the donor database to create a prospect list. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

A volunteer management system, or volunteer management software, is a platform with features designed to help organizations administer volunteer programs, events, and initiatives. Some volunteer management systems integrate with donor management software, allowing nonprofits to gain a 360-view of all supporters from one convenient dashboard.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. You can upgrade your nonprofit’s current strategy to reach and identify more qualified prospective major donors by using data.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

While we use terms like “donor” and “constituent”, they are “consumers” too. We can learn a lot about reaching donors more effectively by keeping an eye on what our corporate retailing counter parts are doing to reach consumers. That’s exactly what your donors need to see! and again.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you’ve just migrated from Blackbaud onto Salesforce, you’ve made the right choice, and we’re here to help ease your transition. When users on BBCRM need a complex report created, they go to the Database (DB) Administrator to create it, which is far from intuitive – and not everyone has a “database mindset.”

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

It’s very clinical, implying that you’re treating donors like a product to be moved down a conveyor belt from one stage to the next. Successful moves management isn’t just “moves management”—it’s donor cultivation. It’s donor cultivation. Moves management is a difficult term.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Making a donor profile might be something that sounds reserved for larger nonprofit institutions with thousands of donors and prospects, a team of analysists, and a budget with room to spare. Truth is – you can absolutely make a useful and insightful donor profile with data from a few donors and a couple hours of your time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

Our friends at Idealware and NTEN have released their Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems. The guide presents detailed comparisons of 33 donor databases that cost less than $4,250 in the first year. Tags: Databases Donors Donors Finances Fundraising Running Your Organization.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Unlike their earlier guides (to inexpensive donor databases, content management systems, online donation tools, etc.) Idealware recently released its Fundraising, Communications and Outreach. this one is an actual book (84 pages, paperback) and costs actual money ($19.95, plus, I assume, shipping and maybe tax).

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Fundraising is important for nonprofits because it supports each organization’s work by providing financial revenue and setting up opportunities for future engagement with donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here. It’s a no- to low-cost database that is a rich source of information about potential major donors, board members, employees, and strategic allies.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

Regardless of mission, nonprofits often have basic technology needs that overlap, including office productivity software, email platforms, accounting and payroll, data backup, and donor or fundraising databases. We identified three possible models for sharing back-office functions, as explained in our summary findings. >

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Idealware just published an article by Keith Heller called Do You Need New Donor Management Software? " His closing summary is right on target: read more. Tags: Fundraising Tech Planning Databases Running Your Organization.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

I got a call last week from the Advancement Services manager at a small college asking for help. He suggests several, including donor retention. Donor retention can definitely be affected--positively and negatively--by Advancement Services. Do donors get timely, accurate receipts and thank-you letters?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might be helpful to share our observations. We’ll summarize a few key takeaways and point to some resources that might be helpful as you think through the impact of this technology.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Each donor has a shared interest in your mission — or you would assume they share an interest if they send you hard-earned money — however, otherwise, your donor base can be a varied selection of the general population. Know Your Donors and Tailor Your Strategy. Mostly older donors?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

If you want to get a full lie of the land, scroll down to access our full database of conferences. The conference will bring together fundraising and marketing professionals to exchange innovative ideas and generate creative strategies that can help you build and strengthen your relationship with your donors.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Donors are the lifeblood of nonprofit organizations. A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. You need them to survive. by Social Source Foundation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Raiser's Edge NXT is the new online fundraising and relationship management software for nonprofits by TechSoup donor partner Blackbaud. It also helps manage volunteers. Analytics and reporting features that help target fundraising. Different views of donor data for different audiences. Nifty Features.

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

Between the dozens of responsibilities that crop up within the course of running a nonprofit organization—from cultivating donors to event planning—filing tax returns probably isn’t at the top of your list of priorities. Moreover, you also have a duty to show donors that you are honoring their wishes and using their gifts responsibly.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Your donors are the ones who make your organization’s mission possible. Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Our team has studied the effectiveness of retaining donors rather than acquiring new ones, and that research guides our entire approach. Why Does Donor Appreciation Matter? . Ideas for New Donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Your donors are the ones who make your organization’s mission possible. Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Our team has studied the effectiveness of retaining donors rather than acquiring new ones, and that research guides our entire approach. Why Does Donor Appreciation Matter? . Ideas for New Donors.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Those are pretty significant numbers, and by ignoring them you could be leaving serious support from potential donors and advocates on the table. Determine what you are trying to achieve, e.g., improve brand loyalty, increase donations, grow your contact database, etc. In summary. Who are the audiences you are looking to target?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It bears mentioning that the executive summary of our findings (in several languages) and full report (in English) are available at no cost to everyone. The types of cloud-based services that NGOs have at the top of their wish list are file storage and sharing, email, data backup and recovery, office productivity, and online databases.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The giving spirit is high, and donors want to know how they can contribute to the causes that they care about. Your organization needs to do more than simply ask your donors for contributions. Building a deeper fundraising strategy can help you: Raise more funds. Retain more donors. Fuel more engagement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

How can we identify our best potential donors when we have so many patients coming through our doors? They make lighter work of big questions like this and can help inform decisions about organizational focus, resources, and strategies. First, understand what “best potential donor” means to your organization. Where do you start?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Plus: we also offer numerous free learning resources to help you better manage your staff, volunteers, and business consultants. To help you along, we have a great webinar on using QuickBooks at your nonprofit. Helps block threats from installing themselves, and includes built-in recovery tools for badly infected computers.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2019

For donors who care about a cause, nothing could be much better than that! First, we looked at our database to see what donors we already have who might be likely prospects for becoming recurring givers. We decided that two of our donor groups were the most likely, the Acorn Club and the Major Women’s Alliance.

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Foundation Program Giving Tips 35

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Unlike their earlier guides (to inexpensive donor databases, content management systems, online donation tools, etc.) Idealware recently released its Fundraising, Communications and Outreach. this one is an actual book (84 pages, paperback) and costs actual money ($19.95, plus, I assume, shipping and maybe tax).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

All of our transactions will impact our balance sheet or income statement, sure, but there are a number of different ways we can approach those transactions, or “slice and dice” that data, to give you better insight into how your business is performing, manage your database, or remain accountable to your donors or other funders.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The focus needs to stay on development with social media as a key strategy—one vehicle of many—for developing donors. Social media plays a huge role in how donors and donor prospects feel about nonprofits, and using the points listed above, social media can make these people feel like they are a part of the nonprofit’s family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos.

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