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Developing a Tactical Fundraising Calendar for Your Organization

The Fundraising Authority

Your best bet to ensure maximum revenue is to lay out a tactical fundraising calendar as part of your overall fundraising plan. A tactical calendar, as its name suggests, is simply a calendar that shows when your non-profit will employ each of the fundraising tactics it is planning to use in a given year. Prospecting mailing.

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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

For example, if your system calls for a thank you call to be made to every donor within 7 days of their gift, have your database set to automatically print out a call list for your development director once per week. The database will automatically print out a thank you letter. 4 – Put it On a Calendar.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). An inability to hire staff who know how to use or support the database in question. Difficulties in training new staff or volunteers on the database. Time-management.

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

As a thought leader in your school—whether you are a director of technology, an assistant head of school, an academic dean, a database administrator, or something else—it is your job to ensure that you are choosing the right piece of school software to best fit the mission and needs of your school. Stale” calendars or no calendars? “No

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6 Tips to Transform Your Dirty Data in 2024

Association Analytics

What happens if you’re heading into 2024 with big goals and ambitions and a database filled with duplicates? Block it off on your calendar and record it on a project plan that someone holds you accountable to. The e-mail addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers of those members? But what happens if your data isn’t clean?

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5 Reports Every Bloomerang User Should Run To Get To Know Their Donors Better

Bloomerang

You have a donor database ! Now, who exactly are all of these people in your database? I like to think that the same rule applies to our databases – let’s pull our supporters into organized lists so we can see them and appreciate them! Out of all of the constituents in your database, how many of them have given a gift?

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Super Useful Nonprofit Fiscal Year-End Action Strategies

Bloomerang

For those of you on a different fiscal year, skip down to “Cleaning up your Prospect Database” and save this checklist for whenever the time is right for you. They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . Don’t count on them remembering.

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