3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

social media, surveys, conversations) to let donors know they are being heard and appreciated. Push program outcome data through your social media outlets every week. A great place to show program outcome data is social media, where you can connect with your donors on a more personal level. and again.

Digital 138

Digital Data Marketing Org 138

3rd Sector Labs

JULY 16, 2014

If your nonprofit is attempting to track down donors using social media data accounts, you could be barking up the wrong data tree. Use social media as a communications medium, not as an append to your donor database. #3. Why is this important to a discussion about donor data quality? Donor retention.

Data 144

Data Retention History Government 144

3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Finally, social media, mobile fundraising, and a whole array of fundraising and volunteer management apps. Further still, how involved is your social media strategy, mobile giving, and text campaigning … more systems and databases? Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs.

Software 161

Software Data Fundraising Database 161

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

And from the Q&A at the end of the event … QUESTION: You talked about using social media logins, like Facebook, to help capture more information about donors and prospects. We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents. DEBBIE: Yes.

Data 133

Data Management Rate Benchmark 133

3rd Sector Labs

MAY 14, 2014

Social media, visitor traffic on your website, event attendance add to the mix. The challenge is in understanding what the data is trying to tell you. Giving patterns, gift potentials, areas of interests and demographics represent starting points for analyzing your database. There’s plenty more data available.

Analytics 170

Analytics Data Fundraising Database 170

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Big data has become a topic of interest due to the large quantities of data (and meta data) now captured, stored, bought and sold as a result of the digital age in which we live, especially via eCommerce and social media. Growth in big data and its related needs/problems has fueled growth in the discipline of data science.

Data 100

Data Management Donor Database 100

3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 28, 2015

Is our social media-saturated society increasingly enured to these socially-inspired overtures? What is happening to the walkathons? So what’s to blame for the declining fortunes of nonprofit team-building events? Are there too many events chasing the same finite pool of participants? Is it the dour economy?

Fundraising 100

Fundraising Retention Data Donor 100