3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

With an insufficient data structure to support a growing charity, the easy short-cut to data management was to store more information in an ad hoc field – birth dates, family data, alma mater, notes from a meeting, etc. In some cases, though, you have useful information that needs to be re-populated into your CRM.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

And shouldn’t we be able then to match our programs to donor interests in order to better inform donors, which in turn results in more successful fundraising campaigns? 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.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Year after year you gather information about donors. Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Can your organization afford to waste that kind of money? Remember that donor data is filled with PII – personally identifiable information. Some organizations should clean their data quarterly, others annually.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

But your organization only knows data. When the personal relationship is interrupted, what does the organization “know” about the donor? Yet how can we develop long term relationships between our donors and our organization without managing and improving the quality of our donor data? Because you are telling us so.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

3 – Who is responsible for maintaining data quality in your organization? 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. Hygiene: How frequently, and on what schedule, will your organization clean data?

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 14, 2014

Data analytics is the process of discovering meaningful information and patterns from data. With a solid data set in hand, the process of data segmentation begins – building profiles of target donor types, then organizing your donor database into groups representing each type. What can smaller organizations do?

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 11, 2014

Where does it comes from, how is it stored and organized, who wants it and why, and so on. Data is the way that an organization or institution understands its customer or consumer. But organizations know data. This post is our latest effort to keep you informed about this important topic. Is big data bad? Certainly not.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Furthermore, as organizations grow in size, there is a tendency to use multiple versions of the same family of software as departments develop a fondness for particular systems that meet a specific need. Every system we add to our organization requires management … and the system’s database requires data management.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There is invaluable information in there for any charity wanting to understand what companies are thinking about with regard to their communities. Data is the only way that the organization knows the donor. Without it, your organization is lost … like a ship at sea with neither a map or stars to guide it. Closing thought.

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