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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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

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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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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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2020

and you think it’s time to upgrade to a new database system after 20 or so years. . Let’s say the system you decide on is well-known for how it managed members, events, and fundraising. Your nonprofit’s staff was used to an old, clunky system that didn’t do much. But there’s one glaring problem ?

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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. The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps.

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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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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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TechImpact

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Cloud computing systems can help speed up internet connections. Is your nonprofit’s old, and slow database hardware slowing down productivity? Switching to a cloud computing system is a great way to increase your internet speed, which was previously limited by clunky and aging hardware. Your data is secure.

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Here are a few examples of how AI can save you time while helping build better relationships: Streamline administrative tasks : When you’re juggling 100+ major donors in your portfolio, your whole day could be spent sorting through donor lists, sending emails, and updating multiple systems.

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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.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This article aims to provide valuable insights and strategies to deepen the connection between congregants and their places of worship, fostering a sense of belonging and commitment, and enhanced stewardship giving. Be sure to practice good data hygiene by having a registration process for all congregants. See the list for yourself.

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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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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Organization Perhaps the most obvious, and really the most important, use for an event software system is that if used correctly, it can keep all financial aspects of the event organized and easily accessible. Improved Guest Experience When running my own event without a software system, the checkout lines were so long!

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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. But how do you spot generous donors, especially if you’re stuck using spreadsheets or outdated systems? But not everyone in your database is going to be ideal.

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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. For many organizations, multiple systems can be a better fit.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 25, 2022

To ensure your union invests in a platform that can help you achieve your goals, this article will explore the essentials of labor union management software through the following points: What is labor union management software? Research and data analysis . How does EveryAction’s union software benefit labor unions? Let’s begin. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

You must have your founding Board of Directors and officers selected prior to filing your Articles of Formation or Articles of Incorporation with the state. Prepare and file Articles of Incorporation. . Establish a bookkeeping system to account for cash receipts and cash disbursements, assets, and liabilities. .

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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. spanhidden.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. This is great if you are planning to use a cloud system for one or two applications in your organization. Very low upfront costs.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A lot of information is popping up about CRM , or Client Relationship Management systems. Is your development department using a database to manage your donors, while other departments (communications, volunteers etc.) A CRM system allows your nonprofit to streamline, become more effective, and make better use of its time.

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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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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

If using these new technologies effectively, nonprofit professionals can speed up their ability to build relationships with supporters, analyze donor data , and create sustainable fundraising plans. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. How cool, right?

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Your AMS solution should use the Salesforce Person Accounts data model. It’s important to select the data model for your Salesforce-based AMS that truly supports the way an association works. That’s why Salesforce developed the Person Accounts data model. You need a full Salesforce sandbox. A Salesforce sandbox can be expensive.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

To help your nonprofit understand the top benefits and features Salesforce can bring, this article will explore why growing nonprofits use Salesforce as their CRM and a few of its top features. Salesforce is a CRM (customer relationship management) system provider. Salesforce is a comprehensive system with an extensive array of apps.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Because Scott is not using a foundation, she is not required to release grant-specific data. Luckily, many of the recipient nonprofits have shared further data. Our automated tool “reads” about 300,000 media articles each day. Of this set of 176 organizations, 30 have been tagged as regrantors in our database.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The Nonprofit Times recently published an article called Is It Donor Management Software Or Business Intelligence. It discusses what Laura Quinn calls the "movement from merely tracking data to an emphasis on using it strategically to make business decisions." Tags: Advancement Services Donor Databases Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . However, Page and Brin believed that they could create a better system to rank the relationships between websites. The new system was initially called BackRub because of the backlinking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

posted by Victoria Michelson Communications Specialist Wild Apricot Nonprofits are organized around data. Not all data is created equal, however. This is the explanation behind many organizations’ resistance to data collection and management, which is seen as an investment of time and resources that yields little or no return.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 14, 2014

Cloud technology offers nonprofits a cheap, efficient and secure online database and computing system already. Cloud systems offer nonprofits direct and indirect layers of security providing perks and problems to potential solutions you may have never considered. Better insight through analytics.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 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?". Tags: Databases Donors Donors Fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

So first, what is data portability? Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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