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Database management for nonprofits

fusionSpan

And whether you have a few people entering and maintaining data or a large team with their own areas of speciality, locking in the best practices for database management is key to making sure your database works for you, not against you. Contents : Why should an organization have a database?

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What is a Donor Management System?

Saleforce Nonprofit

If this sounds like you, maybe it’s time you implement a donor management system, or DMS. I know what you’re thinking – what is a donor management system? A donor management system is like a really big filing cabinet that lives in the cloud and tracks everything about your organization. Host an awesome event. Pretty neat, right?

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?3 Reasons to Integrate Your Organization’s Systems

Saleforce Nonprofit

So when you use a main CRM database, such as Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), along with an assortment of ‘satellite’ systems for online giving, fundraising events, email marketing, eCommerce, volunteers, and the like, data integrity has to be top of mind. You store supporter data in various systems.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. I have a story that we have used quite often: A few years ago, we imported a shadow database into Raiser''s Edge.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again.

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System Update: Early January 2022

Qgiv

We’ve added a search box for outbound SMS contacts. Users with lots of SMS contacts can now find and edit contacts quickly and easily. Instead of updating every minute, they’ll only update when a transaction occurs, which will take some processing load off the database. We hope you had a relaxing holiday season.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Ensure your team has a standard procedure for identifying any requests and activities within your system that are still assigned to departing team members. Provide “Goldilocks” Security Access Of course, when someone leaves your organization, you have a process to make sure they no longer have access to your system. Likely no.

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