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The Ice Bucket Challenge Epilogue: Data

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Discussion and debate. ” And in a related article, the Chronicle discussed the challenge faced by the ALS Association in dealing with 2.4 I can’t tell you how many places I have read discussions and debates about so-called “visibility projects” How do you replicated them? million new donors.

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Data quality vs. data quantity: let’s end the debate!

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We have discussed the problem of data hoarding in the past. Why is this important to a discussion about donor data quality? Less Filling ‘ Your nonprofit organization needs to acquire new donors (data quantity), but you also need the ‘right’ data in order to foster better, longer term relationships (data quality).

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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

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Below I will discuss a few more examples for you to consider. GARY: Data policies will vary from one organization to the next, but they should not vary too much. All organizations are dealing with roughly the same issues. We provided some examples in the presentation, which you can download from our website.

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What’s up with consumer data privacy?

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And the discussions are heating up. It all boils down to data … ones and zeroes stored in computer databases that represent billions of digital transactions. More specifically, it’s about consumer data. “Big data” Lots of it. It’s all around us, so to speak.

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Technology, data and fundraising: is it getting too complicated?

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Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. 19% – within the past 3 months. 10% – within the past 6 months. 19% – within the past 12 months. 52% – not sure. What’s going on?

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Does your charity have too much data?

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Let’s use donor data for our discussion. In fact, being in the nonprofit data services business, we get asked lots of questions about how to obtain more donor data, better data, the right data. Few customers ask us “When is there too much data?” ” There isn’t a simple answer.

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“Donor retention by the numbers”: Q&A with Caity Craver and Gary Carr

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Less than 5% talked about data and campaign infrastructure topics like the things we have been discussing today. The rest of the advice was a mix of actions to take during and after the appeal. Here’s a link to a post about the survey.

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