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Nonprofit Data Migration Made Easier with Carr Partnership

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A central challenge facing many of today’s nonprofit organizations is the paucity of technology solutions, as well as expertise, available for things like website development, fundraising, data migration, and so on. Of particular concern to these nonprofits is, of course, their supporter databases.

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

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” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data management plan, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Nonprofit data management plans: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. What tools do you recommend?

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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. Is more data jargon giving you a headache?

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

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D2: Do I use the CRM vendor’s import tools? But the import tool needs to be well-tested. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies. The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. For more help, see this post.

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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. Technologies and tools used to capture and manage data change, get upgraded, get replaced. What’s going on?

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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. We don’t know our 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?