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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS.

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. and MPower at 0.4%.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The sores on my head have only just recently healed (must have been seminary) from helping a couple of organizations a few years ago to plan for integrating some of their internal databases with a big vendor database that-shall-not-be-named. at 9:16 am OK, cool, that makes sense.

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NTC Boston: Brian Reich: Online Fundraising Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pick your tools (CRM/database, individual giving pages (race for the cure), online auctions, mobile). So, as a first step, organizations should be at least collecting mobile phone numbers in their databases. Most orgs don???t ve been existing in a homegrown database, you need get people to opt in. " Here???s

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