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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

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If you’ve migrated donor data from one CRM to another, no doubt you have dealt with a lot of difficult decisions. In fact, our donor data migration clients often express surprise at the number of decisions they have to make. In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions.

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Donor Data Management Dictionary

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Every nonprofit needs a data management plan, especially for their donor data. To help with your donor data management planning, we have created a Donor Data Management Dictionary to help you make sense of all the data jargon as it applies to the nonprofit organization’s business needs.

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Attention nonprofits: We don’t know our donor data!

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Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? Combat the challenges of donor retention? So, how do we know that nonprofits don’t know their donor data? Because donors are people, and people’s lives change.

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Fundraising without donor data: What’s that proverb about giving a man a fish?

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How often do the funds come in without workable donor data – or any donor data – behind it? If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. Fundraising without donor data. For tomorrow, you need data … donor data.

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

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The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. Donor data migration: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. lapsed donors?

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

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Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a donor retention webinar with Caity Craver , CEO of DonorTrends. The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results.

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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

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Now, let’s talk about your donor database. Year after year you gather information about donors. Donors lapse. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Data hoarding extends far beyond just your donor data and CRM software.

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