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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

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.

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How to Use Prospect Research to Improve Your Asks: 5 Tips

Achieve

But the value of prospect research extends beyond the cultivation stage —the data you gather can also be pivotal in the solicitation process, helping you tailor your fundraising asks to each prospect and increase your chances of success. Use capacity data to determine the right ask amounts. Keep your database clean.

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

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But we recognize that data can also be used to do harm. Over the years, we’ve faced various situations in which we’ve had to remove, anonymize, or otherwise modify data to prevent potential harm. In some cases, we’ve made these changes in response to specific requests from funders that have shared grants data with us.

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5 Things You Need to Know about Nonprofits + Big Data

EveryAction

To find out more about how nonprofits are using (or not using) their data to do more good, we asked over 460 nonprofit professionals about their habits, culture, and outlook on the state of data at their organizations. Most nonprofits are collecting data, few know what to do with it. Email + donors get the most data love.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority. Tech training that actually works Let’s face it, a lot of technology training is garbage.

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Your 2022 Guide to Blackbaud’s K-12 Conference

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Tracy Dodge is the director of student information and registrar at Washington International School, where she oversees the student information system, learning management system, and other integrated solutions. This is an excellent event for administrators and data lovers alike. Top Sessions Recommended by a School Registrar.

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Your Data Simplified: Idealware's Data Don'ts for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

At TechSoup, I've noticed we're talking more and more about the importance of data for nonprofits. We're reflecting a larger trend in business, government, and IT to pay more attention to the plumes of information our websites, databases, PCs, and mobile devices are generating. Instead, Start with Data You Already Have.

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