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Twitter Best Practices

Robert Weiner

Every day it seems like there’s a new article on how nonprofits and businesses can use Twitter for engagement, activism, marketing, and fundraising. Today’s entry comes from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which published When Characters Count: Advice for Charities on Making the Most of Twitter.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. The responses came primarily from post-secondary schools, but also included elementary schools, healthcare, museums, gardens, performing arts, and service organizations. 63% raised over $50,000.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices 2009

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The responses came primarily from academic institutions, but also included significant numbers from healthcare, religious, and social service organizations.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

Advancement Services Best Practices Databases Donor Databases' All of these things and more help to keep our records up to date and give them better information and more time to fundraise and friendraise. Michelle Kolak. Assistant Director. Advancement Services. Columbia College Chicago.

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Controlling data entry

Robert Weiner

Decentralized data entry is efficient and is the only practical approach at some organizations. Best Practices for Managing a Database. But the more people you have entering data the more problems you’ll have with quality control. If no one's in charge of quality control you're going to have a database full of garbage.

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Should You Delete Donor Records?

Robert Weiner

Advancement Services Best Practices Databases Donor Databases Fundraising' All of these approaches have their downsides, of course, but they don''t encourage data loss. What do you think? Is there a justification for deleting donor records?

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What to Do When Technology Isn’t Your Problem

Robert Weiner

Best Practices IT Management Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Technology' Come join us for a collaborative, interactive, therapeutic discussion at the NTC. Thanks to Marc Baizman, Dahna Goldstein, and Tracy Kronzak for their collaboration on this post.

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