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New Year’s Resolutions For Your Website in 2024

The MatrixFiles

The process includes making a list of your regrets, picking the one thing that bugs you the most, and then focusing on just that in the new year. Meet with your membership database and marketing team to map the member join process and map the journey. news, blogs, annual meeting information, etc.

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

Qgiv

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

Qgiv

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Donor Database Management Essentials. Donor Database Management Essentials. are clearly documented within the database. Step 3: Prepare Your Database.

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Your Nonprofit’s New Data Management Process

TechImpact

Data management can be a tedious, difficult process. Below, we have spelled out for you the “4 A’s” of data management to help you get started on your data collecting process, according to Sidekick Solutions. Having mounds of data is great, but unless that information is applied and acted upon it is all for nothing. Accumulate.

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Maybe It’s Not Your Database, It’s You

Robert Weiner

I'm working on an article with the title, "Maybe It's Not Your Database, It's You." The premise is that complaints about an organization's database may be misdirected: the problem is how the system is being managed (aka management problems disguised as technology problems). Here are my thoughts so far. What am I missing? © Walt Kelly.

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