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Choosing a Marketing Automation Application for Your Nonprofit: 5 Steps to Success

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Yet, in order to connect your message to your donors, supporters, and volunteers at scale, you’ll need a marketing automation application. Below, we’ll talk you through the steps to follow so you and your team find an application you love — at a cost that doesn’t break the bank. They are certain to be compelled by your cause.

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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

TechImpact

Database are extremely useful in simplifying business operations, communication, and workflow for both the for-profit sector and nonprofit sector. Nonprofits and charities use databases to manage donor, volunteer, and B2B profiles and aggregate data. But of course, a good database can go down-hill if it is not properly maintained.

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6 Qualities A Nonprofit Database Management System Should Have

TechImpact

Nonprofits use databases to handle volunteers, donors, staff, and more. For smaller nonprofits, a database may be nothing more than an Excel file. Medium to large nonprofits might have an IT staff and a simple database, designed by the in-house development team. Who manages the database? Authorization.

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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

Forum One

The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. However, developing these conversational AI applications in a robust, scalable, and efficient way is no easy task.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

We cannot interface with other desired applications. The current software will not support our “road warrior” fundraisers, or we cannot access it via the browser or devices that we wish to use. An inability to hire staff who know how to use or support the database in question. Stewarding current donors. Time-management.

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The best way to do this is to require volunteers to fill out an application. Volunteer applications may vary depending on the nonprofit. Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual. Provide “Goldilocks” Security Access Of course, when someone leaves your organization, you have a process to make sure they no longer have access to your system. Does everyone get full access? Likely no. Blackbaud Grantmaking user?

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