6 Tips for Keeping Your Nonprofit’s Donor Data Clean and Ready to Use
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 3, 2022
When you think about your nonprofit’s technology strategy, donor data might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But maybe it should.
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 10, 2024
Successful fundraising starts with clean data. Melissa’s new solutions catalog is packed with essential tips, tools and free trials to help you address donor engagement, improve outreach, and ensure accuracy for meaningful impact and a sustainable future.
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NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 18, 2024
The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making.
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 12, 2024
Successful fundraising starts with clean data. Melissa’s new solutions catalog is packed with essential tips, tools and free trials to help you address donor engagement, improve outreach, and ensure accuracy for meaningful impact and a sustainable future.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making.
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making.
EveryAction
MARCH 8, 2023
Locate your data. Check in with all staff members at your organization to make sure you know where all data resides. Ask if they’re capturing and maintaining data in places such as spreadsheets or email inboxes to make sure you migrate all necessary information into your new software system. Do a data clean-up.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
We know that data is a scary word for many. Why event registration and data collection are important to nonprofits It’s true you can post on social media to get supporters’ attention, but that’s kind of like throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping some of it’ll stick. Use event data to find someone who might step into that role!
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 6, 2022
Start fresh in 2022 with solutions to clean, update and enrich your donor data. From postal and email lists to change of address processing and demographic data, Melissa’s new solutions catalog brings you the tools you need to reach more donors, stay engaged with current ones and save on direct mail.
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Your donor database is only as good as the data you put into it. A clean database should be a high priority as you plan ahead. As with every other industry today, nonprofits are especially dependent on good data to be successful. And donor data is at the top of the critical care list.
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Start fresh in 2022 with solutions to clean, update and enrich your donor data. From postal and email lists to change of address processing and demographic data, Melissa’s new solutions catalog brings you the tools you need to reach more donors, stay engaged with current ones and save on direct mail.
sgEngage
APRIL 17, 2024
And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it.
Candid
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.” These forms are a primary source of data about U.S. These forms are a primary source of data about U.S. Many of the largest U.S.
sgEngage
MARCH 11, 2024
Ultimately, this helps major gift teams focus on what matters most—building relationships with donors and helping their organization make an impact. AI tools help minimize those tasks by prioritizing and identifying donors, drafting email communications, and syncing data to your CRM.
3rd Sector Labs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.
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. They can be used to attract new donors, to engage with community members, supporters, and other stakeholders, and to help with grant applications.
Saleforce Nonprofit
JULY 21, 2021
The concept of ‘data-driven’ nonprofits is still as valid as ever. The challenge that nonprofits in 2021 are facing is that while data is great and all, there is just so much of it and it all comes at you, nonstop, from so many places. The 3 Cs of Nonprofit Data Integrity. You Want Your Data Current. And 2020 didn’t help.
sgEngage
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Further, with 64% of total giving coming from individual donors in 2022, ensuring you have a well thought out strategy to attract these dollars is critical. Scrub your data so it’s extra squeaky clean for your campaign! Additionally, look at which of your donors you haven’t heard from recently.
Candid
JULY 27, 2023
Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 17, 2021
By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. There is a fundraising software that will help your staff manage fundraising campaigns and donor data efficiently and engage and grow your donor base. 2) Training.
EveryAction
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
In fact, you can customize your annual report to only include the information relevant to what your donors and prospective supporters want to know. While they use visually appealing graphics to highlight their data points, they never overshadow the focal points of the report: the people at the center of the organization.
sgEngage
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
No, we prefer to build relationships en masse, using data-driven insights to tell us what our donors really want. I want you to have the confidence (and your leadership team to have the confidence in you) that with data and time, you can make annual giving work for your organization. Plan for your year.
Cloud 4 Good
AUGUST 9, 2022
As we approach the end of the calendar year, many of your donors will be thinking about end-of-year donations to your organization. Cleanse Your Data + Get Insights. Data is always the backbone of any system – especially Salesforce. Cloud for Good has identified a list of 7 ways that you can help make your org ready: .
Pamela Grow
JANUARY 24, 2024
Clean up that email list. Also, those heavy on transactional emails, folks who haven’t authenticated their domains, list buyers, and anyone with a spammy reputation. Now, don’t freak out! Take precautions. Work with your IT wizards to ensure compliance. Consider creating email subdomains to protect your main domain.
Candid
JANUARY 11, 2024
Among Candid’s top evergreen priorities is to ensure we both have the best data possible for the sector and that we get it into the hands of all who can benefit. This is key to living up to our nonprofit mission to provide data as a sustainable public good that supports the entire sector’s success. Add real-time data.
3rd Sector Labs
MARCH 1, 2015
Now, let’s talk about your donor database. When was the last time you cleaned it up? Year after year you gather information about donors. Donors lapse. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Is your organization is a donor data hoarder? The cost of using bad data.
DonorPerfect
JANUARY 27, 2023
Data cleanup sounds about as exciting as deep cleaning your house, but it actually has the potential to bring your fundraising team closer together. A clean home means a clear head, right? The same is true for a healthy donor database and healthy work relationships. Hear me out.
Neon CRM
MAY 31, 2023
But for fundraisers, numbers can reveal a lot of insights that help you understand donors, demographics, and more. This fundraising metric shows us that, while digital appeals are a great way to reach donors, direct mail should still have a place in your fundraising strategy. You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Numbers aren’t everything.”
Media Cause
JANUARY 8, 2024
This ensures that when potential donors, volunteers, or beneficiaries search for relevant information or services, your nonprofit’s website appears at the top of the search results. This data can inform your nonprofit’s strategic decision-making process.
DNL OmniMedia
JUNE 28, 2023
But are you using your online tools effectively enough to connect with donors? Nonprofit technology offers a wealth of opportunities to support your donor engagement efforts, largely thanks to the data you’re able to collect and use to drive your decision-making. Use a fundraising dashboard to visualize data analytics.
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.
sgEngage
AUGUST 18, 2021
In all honesty, never has there been a better time to gain, sustain, and upgrade donors and expand your digital efforts to accomplish your mission. With so many one-time gift (OTG) donors, there’s never been a more opportune time to sift your donor base and find those special donors willing to become monthly supporters.
Get Fully Funded
JUNE 5, 2023
Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. And going back to retroactively enter data is a huge time-consuming headache. We always have to hit the “pause” button while we clean up the accounting mess.
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?
3rd Sector Labs
APRIL 23, 2014
Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a data management webinar with Debbie Snyder , VP of Sales & Marketing for Adcieo. The topic – “Why don’t you have a data management plan?” ” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. Within the past 3 months = 30%.
sgEngage
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Data is everywhere—in every filing cabinet and software system—making it more critical than ever for schools and nonprofits to manage it properly and use that data to make more informed decisions. How are you collecting, storing, and accessing that data? What data does our school need? Do you have the right tools?
3rd Sector Labs
MAY 29, 2014
What about access to great data that helps us to understand the outcomes being produced by our programs and to know our donors and their interests better? And shouldn’t we be able then to match our programs to donor interests in order to better inform donors, which in turn results in more successful fundraising campaigns?
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? Combat the challenges of donor retention?
Connection Cafe
APRIL 14, 2015
Staying on top of data hygiene and duplicates can solve a great deal of issues. You can get and keep your duplicate mess cleaned up by dedicating just a few hours a week. When you’re cleaning up duplicates once a week, the process becomes easier to manage vs. running a duplicate checker every few months.
sgEngage
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?
Pamela Grow
OCTOBER 30, 2023
To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Your data can reveal hints about donors’ giving preferences, giving capacity, willingness to give, and the reasons why they support your cause. Understand donors’ giving behaviors.
DNL OmniMedia
MARCH 13, 2023
Both for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike collect many different types of data each day. For nonprofits, this might include donor data like the email address, name, address, and giving level of a donor who just signed up to receive your newsletter. Use data management software.
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