Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Read this blog to learn more about how these nonprofits are addressing the issues facing workers today by filling gaps left by traditional labor unions , and find out what Candid’s data says about philanthropic support for this growing movement. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. million to $35.6 Source: Foundation 1000.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Database Owners. Database owners on your team ensure donations sync up with your customer relationship management (CRM) system, such as Salesforce. . They use donor data to deduplicate customer records, which ensures you have all the information to build a relationship with a donor in one place. Marketing and Design.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In addition to filling out this survey, conduct an internal readiness assessment that explores your existing processes, data infrastructure, and organizational goals. After up to three rounds of review, feedback, and revisions, it’s time to move your organization’s data over to its new home.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Want to see more? Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2011

We're excited to announce the updated Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems , written by Idealware in partnership with NTEN. The systems reviewed cost no more than $4000 for the first year of use. Recommendations for systems based on particular needs. Comparison Matrix of the Top 10 Systems.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

It incorporates a whole category of products from sophisticated and comprehensive solutions to simple spreadsheets and databases. Donor Databases: A donor database is the biggest part of your CRM. This is something that’s also often folded into a CRM and used in conjunction with a donor database.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

CRM systems specifically tend to streamline workflow, integrate key systems, enhance database security and management, provide scalability, and ROI, among other benefits. Bring out the studies, facts, and stats on CRM usage, along with a comparison of vendors and plans that reflect the nonprofit pricing.

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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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Everyaction

MAY 30, 2018

Once you have consulted with each person or role that will be using the software, we recommend creating a list of all desired features and categorizing them as Non-Negotiable, Critical, Highly Desirable, and Nice-to-Have (or another tiered priority system of your choosing). Get it all in front of you.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Your nonprofit’s constituent relationship management (CRM) software contains one of your organization’s greatest assets — your data. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Choosing the Best Nonprofit CRM for Your Organization.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2011

Earlier this summer, Idealware and NTEN released the updated Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management , which provides reviews and comparisons of 29 donor management systems under $4000. To start, do you even need a donor management system? Hosted Vs. Installed Systems. Custom-Built Systems. Permissions.

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

In this article, we’ve outlined 4 key features in particular that you should look out for: Content Management System. Member Database. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. Your AMS should offer a built-in content management system (CMS) that you can use to design your website and remain engaged with your members. MEMBER DATABASE.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 27, 2012

I loved the idea of a simple, affordable solution that organizations could use right now that would give them unfiltered data to inform their decisions. It’s not about price comparisons. Give them unfiltered, data-driven information and let them make their own choices. “Common Ground had matching gifts? Their choice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. If you’re running database applications (tracking donations, events, programs, clients) and want deep integration between your web content and your data, it is an approach that is hard to beat.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 12, 2024

We’ve thought through the pros and cons of both providers to offer a full comparison that will help you as you shop for the right software for your mission. Blackbaud CRM : As Blackbaud’s largest-scale database solution, Blackbaud CRM (BBCRM) is highly customizable and best suited for enterprise-level nonprofits and healthcare organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Grantmakers of all sizes should check out Idealware's recently updated Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Systems. Available from Idealware's website as a free download, the updated guide compares 20 grants management systems, including popular offerings from Bromelkamp and MicroEdge. More Customizable Interfaces.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2016

The new edition of the Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems is a 300-plus page downloadable report that provides detailed comparisons of 29 grants management systems. So what is new in grants management systems? Cloud-based grantmaking systems have largely overtaken the field. Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Leverage your donors’ passion and your relationships with businesses to persuade companies with workplace giving programs to consider systemizing them with software. Search a matching gift database. Your nonprofit’s matching gift software can help you here, as you can easily search for other businesses and find comparisons.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

The search bar allows you to type a question about your data like: “how many users came to the site last month?” Custom “User dimensions” from UA is now “User Properties” in GA4 “Goals” in UA have become “Conversions” in GA4 “Segments” used to filter the view in UA are now “comparisons” in GA4 and you can have up to 4.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. You’ll explore major gift metrics through the following guide: Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. Overview of Major Gift Fundraising Data. How is the metric measured?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Different views of donor data for different audiences. Mobile access to data. Enhanced data security. An all-new and more open API (application programming interface), which means that web developers and a charity's own IT team can get data in and out of the system much more easily.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2011

Community member Judi Sohn advises that even a top-notch database will likely fail if it's not well-received by those who will actually have to use and maintain it regularly. Keep reading to see what our community members think of some of the most popular systems. Any Donor Database Suggestions? Tool Recommendations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2012

When CHOICES found themselves struggling over excel spreadsheets, custom databases and playing hide-n-seek with constituent data, they decided they needed a better solution to the chaos - a solution that would help them focus on what really mattered to them - their mission. Donors have given over $13,000 online. "We

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Managers and the board were so overwhelmed by the huge amount of information that their eyes tended to glaze over when the data was presented. One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. One client we served had a list of more than eight measures it was trying to track.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It was great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. In any event, Kintera’s API goes a long way to help organizations be freed from yet another data silo, and they are free. The API is SOAP. They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Using Red Hat, as I often do sometimes, feels like doing battle in comparison. Ubuntu seems to be becoming the linux distro of choice for a lot of people, and so far, it’s my favorite. Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data. I believe eTapestry runs on a database package called Versant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Better yet it allows for seamless data integration. As Michael Hoffman describes the practical benefits: Imagine you run one program for your main donor database and another program for your email and online data. Until recently, the main way to deal with this was cumbersome import and export of data from one system to another.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2013

DISCLAIMER: My recommendations are based on experience as a business owner, nonprofit executive director, and systems engineer supporting QuickBooks installations. There are really three comparisons here — QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Enterprise Internal, and QuickBooks Enterprise Hosted or "subscription."

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Consider this in comparison to their own website, where U.S. Simple and effective tools such as " AddThis " allow online fundraisers to bookmark their online fundraising page quickly across a variety of social media systems. million fans (placing them in second, after Starbucks' 12.7 million fans). Is it effective?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

book keeping, telephony, database etc.) In our experience, there are five administrative processes that provide the greatest return on time and investment when considering a cloud computing solution: Accounting, Database, Email, Web Site and Telephony. configuration, data migration and training).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

My point is that companies like Microsoft have almost nothing to do with providing good software — the marginal gain from selling better software is miniscule in comparison with the potential income from spreading some FUD and reaping the benefits as everyone re-evaluates their risk positions. 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

book keeping, telephony, database etc.) In our experience, there are five administrative processes that provide the greatest return on time and investment when considering a cloud computing solution: Accounting, Database, Email, Web Site and Telephony. configuration, data migration and training).

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