Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm working on an article with the title, "Maybe It's Not Your Database, It's You." The premise is that complaints about an organization's database may be misdirected: the problem is how the system is being managed (aka management problems disguised as technology problems). Do volunteers enter data?

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. More fundraising software = more data headaches. Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs. We don’t know our data.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

If you’ve migrated donor data from one CRM to another, no doubt you have dealt with a lot of difficult decisions. In fact, our donor data migration clients often express surprise at the number of decisions they have to make. In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Social media trends and best practices change so often that it’s helpful to ground your approach in data and regularly reevaluate your social media presence as your supporter base grows and changes. In this article, we’ll give you five tips to upgrade your social media strategy using data. Philanthropic data.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Every nonprofit needs a data management plan, especially for their donor data. The plan needs to address a variety of topics, such as data hygiene and enrichment , data usage in various communications activities , input/output management, and more. Is more data jargon giving you a headache?

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 14, 2014

Fundraising data analytics is becoming more popular – and more necessary in today’s philanthropy marketplace. Admittedly, for many of us in the sector, the very mention of ‘data analytics’ sounds intimidating. ” What is fundraising data analytics? Why is fundraising data analytics important?

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 16, 2014

When it comes to nonprofit data, especially donor data, there’s a running debate. Which is more important, data quality or quantity? Put quality first, especially donor data quality. We have discussed the problem of data hoarding in the past. Donor data quality must come first. Why quality first?

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

These “4 A’s” just might be your nonprofit’s new way of planning your data management. Data management can be a tedious, difficult process. Nonprofits are often inexperienced, ill-equipped, or poorly staffed before taking on major data gathering and parsing undertakings. Accumulate.

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Media Cause

JUNE 8, 2023

Our team compiled data best practices for your nonprofit’s success when using Salesforce. Data plays a pivotal role in empowering nonprofits, especially when it comes to understanding and managing donor and supporter relationships. You can untangle this and prevent it from happening again using data best practices.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Now, let’s talk about your donor database. Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? Data hoarding extends far beyond just your donor data and CRM software. It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Understanding data is critically important to success in any business. Unfortunately, data can be boring, even confusing. Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? Data degrades. But your organization only knows data.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter the strategy, the best way to optimize your donor communication processes is to leverage donor data. Your donor data should play a key role in your communication strategy, helping you create targeted content and personal experiences for recipients. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 12, 2011

NTEN just published a short piece of mine on data management in their Change magazine. The topic they gave me was managing decentralized data entry. It's in their DIY series -- short tips for implementing something for your organization without extensive tech know-how or extra budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. Interviews and focus groups - The desired outcome of this type of method is to solicit data without any influence or bias.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions. Plan ahead, so you’ll know what data to track. Contact us at any time to speak with one of our data-loving experts.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When we use images that are based on real data and facts, our story, and more importantly – our conclusions – become self-evident. For more complex and dynamic projects, such as showing the locations of donors during a campaign, Clockwork Micro offers a suite of web map tools that integrate with most databases using GIS data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. Machine learning is most likely being used to help with the data coding and categorization in the underlying databases.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 19, 2009

Idealware just published a new article of mine, on a subject that comes up whenever I teach workshops for small nonprofits: "Why not use Excel as my donor database?".

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

Now, we’ll walk through our favorite donor management tools to help you find one that can organize and centralize all the donor data you’re collecting! To make it easy for you to navigate this article, we’ve broken our discussion into three helpful sections: Donor Databases for Small Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. With Giveffect, for example, the data collected is automatically added to a volunteer’s profile so that it is easily accessible by your team members. Create your engagement plan informed by the data you collected. Say it with us, “No more paper!”

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Has anyone written articles for a niche audience, and do they have the know how to track the success of that article? Fundraising Tech content marketing data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology volunteers' These things and more […].

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have heaps of data. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. Interviews and focus groups - The desired outcome of this type of method is to solicit data without any influence or bias.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2020

To help you better understand GoFundMe Charity donors compared to traditional nonprofit donors, we published a Social Fundraising Data Report for Nonprofit s. These data points highlight how important it is to encourage small donations. GoFundMe Charity donors tend to: Skew younger––early 50% of donors are millennial s or Gen Xers.

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Candid

JULY 6, 2021

As technology continues advancing , we see more articles discussing how automation takes pressure off of staff members and how organizations need to increase their use of software to optimize their communications with supporters. . Let’s consider how you collect data when a donor gives to your organization.

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Whole Whale

JULY 15, 2020

This article might save your Google Analytics developer a ton of time. If you have an email or customer list that engage with your site it can be frustrating to try to figure out how to connect those data with the Google Analytics User Id. Our GetLighthouse database holds the information of email and GA User ID. The Solution.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this article, we’ll provide five tips that enable you to seamlessly integrate your nonprofit email and website marketing strategies. In addition to your volunteer page, you may drive traffic to blog articles, donation forms, or event registration pages depending on your organization’s current priorities and goals.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. The ability to easily see how all your constituents interact with your organization, and with each other, makes for an attractive, ideal vision of what a database should be. In reality, a single database means some compromise.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

For the purposes of this article, we’ll refer to any gifts large enough to make up a substantial portion of revenue as “major gifts.” The Strategies We’ll Cover: Clean Your Donor Database Perform Prospect Research Look to Your Donor Database Check Planned Giving Donors Clean Your Donor Database What Is This Strategy?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The required update will change this dynamic as you will now have to set which system is the primary of the Opted Out data, your two options are: Use Pardot’s value as the primary. Option: You could make the Salesforce Opted Out field read-only in Contacts and/or Leads to prevent data discrepancies. Pardot as the primary of Opted Out.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This article will show you how to identify the right donors to focus on, how to nurture them, and how savvy fundraisers can find them in their existing data. To make it easy, Bloomerang provides pre-built templates that let you segment and prioritize who to focus on with just a few clicks, so you don’t have to be a data expert.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We talk a lot about data at Idealware, and we're not alone — it's a nonprofit buzzword that's showing no sign of fading. More and more organizations are embracing the idea that collecting and measuring data and acting on what they learn from it can improve their work and better their services. Here in the U.S.,

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your nonprofit’s old, and slow database hardware slowing down productivity? Your data is secure. Your data is always YOUR data. Data may be located off-site, but you never legally lose ownership of your data. Data may be located off-site, but you never legally lose ownership of your data.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

The ability of these tools to connect web behavior, third-party data, and CRM integrations ensure these tools pay for themselves when used correctly. Many analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Facebook Web Insights, LinkedIn Website demographics and others show aggregated and anonymized data of website users.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2015

I get asked the question often, “What should we look for in donor database tools?” All good donor database tools worth your time and money will include: 1. Of course, not everyone can log in and see important donor data—that’s not what I’m referring to. I believe there are three crucial elements that you need. A dashboard.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I'm Steve, a data scientist working with the team at TechSoup and I'm starting a biweekly conversation about how we can all use data and information to drive smarter decisions. I've worked on a very broad variety of technical information systems and multiple types of databases and reporting tools. Hello World!

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