3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

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. Aren’t the Tweets that use data more effective … more descriptive? Most organizations utilize multichannel fundraising. You’ll see the difference. Definitely.

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Digital Data Marketing Org 138

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? But your organization only knows data. When the personal relationship is interrupted, what does the organization “know” about the donor? 49% have no idea how much money their organizations will lose to donor attrition each year.

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Attention Data Donor Retention 157

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

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. Is more data jargon giving you a headache? Send us a note and we’ll add it to the dictionary.

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Data Management Donor Database 100

3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. Technology and data need to be challenged, justified, and made to work FOR your organization. As a kick-off to each event, we ask three short questions.

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Data Technology Fundraising Database 148

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Organizations in every industry today dependent on good data to be successful. Within a nonprofit organization, many data inputs are often manual. You are probably dealing with multiple types of data in or your organization – donor, event, social, service outcomes, financial, etc. What’s going on? For example ….

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Data Management Map Problem 130

3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The platform is a suite of fundraising tools designed for smaller organizations, clubs and associations – the sort of nonprofit that doesn’t have a large budget and leadership is primarily volunteer based, so it turns over frequently. We set out to build a Software as a Service platform for start-up company Booster Pro.

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Drupal Module Application Content 100

3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The root cause of bad data management for any organization – for-profit, nonprofit or government – can usually be found in the data management paradigm itself. Does this sound like your organization? So you will need to identify each type of data utilized within your organization.

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Data Management Synchronous Database 160