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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. So, how do we know that nonprofits don’t know their donor data? This realization hits everyone right between the eyes when nonprofits experience turnover. We need to invest time, resources and budget dollars in our donor data. Build a fundraising strategy?

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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. You may download a copy of the presentation from the Resources section of our website. The polling results.

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What’s in your data management plan?

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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. Within a nonprofit organization, many data inputs are often manual. Most nonprofits that we speak with do not.

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Fundraising data analytics – mining the gold in your own backyard

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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.

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More fundraising software = more data headaches

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Nowhere is this more true than in the nonprofit sector. It is not unusual for large nonprofits to end up with 2 CRM systems, an event management system, one or more volunteer management systems, 2 or 3 email marketing accounts, and multiple additional databases that store all sorts of ad hoc data.

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How to forecast fundraising risk before your walkathon stalls

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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? Is it the dour economy?

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

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Consider a nonprofit with 100,000 names in its donor database. At some point, the number of duplicates and conflicting records was overwhelming … to the point that they did not have the time or resources to manually do the clean up work that was needed. The cost of using bad data. Have you done the math on returned mail?

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