3rd Sector Labs

MAY 14, 2014

Nicole Wallace at The Chronicle of Philanthropy wrote a terrific piece this week, ‘Fundraisers Reap Millions by Using Data Gold Mine’ Fundraising data analytics is the equivalent of mining the gold in our own nonprofit backyards. And today’s nonprofits must do this in order to survive and grow. The answer is plenty.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 28, 2015

The answer is a resounding ‘yes,’ which should be good news to nonprofit organizations concerned about recent news articles portraying the declining fortunes in walkathons and other popular team-building events. So what’s to blame for the declining fortunes of nonprofit team-building events?

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How do you know when your organization is storing and using too much data? 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. In the case of the latter, an organization is storing data that it will never use. And no more.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

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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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. Nonprofits rely on data, data aggregation, data brokers every day. “Big data” Lots of it. What to do?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Organizations in every industry today dependent on good data to be successful. It’s no different for nonprofits, and donor data is at the top of the critical care list. The problem that every nonprofit faces, however, is that all data degrades, and donor data degrades faster than most. What’s going on? For example ….

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Carr Systems’ growth has prompted us to redesign our site to better reflect precisely what it is that we do for our customers, who those customers are, and the unique approach that makes us an ideal solution for SMBs, nonprofit organizations and public agencies.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

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. 3 – Who is responsible for maintaining data quality in your organization? The polling results.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Worse still, if you weren’t in “the cloud”, then your organization was exposed to all sorts of risks, problems and unnecessary costs? Not long ago, chatting with a prospective customer about their donor data storage practices, I suggested we step back and look at the organization’s bigger technology picture.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why am I being so emphatic as I talk about CRM data and your organization’s future? Side note: While I am writing this blog post for the nonprofit audience, my friends who manage commercial CRM migrations will tell you the same thing. You don’t run your nonprofit without a management plan, do you?

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors. Fundraising data has many touch-points throughout your organization. Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. All businesses and organizations need to develop predictable revenue streams. Undocumented gifts can come to nonprofits through a variety of sources. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 24, 2015

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. The problem lies where we could get gathering the necessary data we need to run our organization but we fail to do so. All businesses and organizations need to develop predictable revenue streams.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We have been asking nonprofits a very important fundraising question, and getting some surprising results. 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. As a kick-off to each event, we ask three short questions.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Consider a nonprofit with 100,000 names in its donor database. Can your organization afford to waste that kind of money? Some organizations should clean their data quarterly, others annually. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. All businesses and organizations need to develop predictable revenue streams. Undocumented gifts can come to nonprofits through a variety of sources. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

That depends on your organization’s structure. Data management in every organization needs to have a plan and a budget. Seriously, what any organization needs is a resource(s) dedicated to completing the data migration and engaging leadership in the tough decisions. the fundraising team?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Nonprofits everywhere are struggling to get their hands on reliable, useful workplace giving data from corporate giving programs. 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. And it is only getting worse.

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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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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. The most damaging data management paradigm – one that is commonly found among nonprofits – is what I call “the daisy chain of bad data management.”

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

If you have questions about your nonprofit systems, databases, CRM or data needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us. The feedback was eye-opening about the struggles we are experiencing with nonprofit technology. A compelling cause and trustworthy organization are at the root of successful fundraising. Easier = 8%.

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