DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

If it’s time for you to start looking for a new grant management system, use this opportunity to evaluate your processes, figure out what needs to change, and find a solution that can growth with your organization. If a system doesn’t have one of these, or it requires a workaround, it’s a non-starter.

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Nucleus

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In 2019, Terry and TEI decided to use advanced data analytics to help reach organizational goals and they selected the Nucleus solution to do this. In sharing his experiences and recommendations, he writes: “I hope to help somebody out there – we were making decisions that were not necessarily data driven.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

On July 1, 2024, Google will permanently remove access to all Universal Analytics data. Organizations need to act before that deadline if they want to preserve their historical data. With the GA4 rollout, standard UA properties ceased collecting new data on July 1, 2023. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4?

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

If you are still hosting the data and applications that you’re using to run your core operations and development efforts—from your accounting software to your donor relationship management and fundraising systems—on premises, you are not setting your future organization up for success. Now think about your nonprofit organization.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data-driven decision-making isn’t just a trendy phrase; it’s here to stay and essential for any organization’s success these days. The apprehension to adopt a new system or modify a current one is real. Suppose current data reveals that 20% of members don’t renew their memberships annually.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, the ability to harness data for informed decision-making is more critical than ever. Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

Use automated personalization tools. Depending on the size of your nonprofit, you might have numerous roles open at any given time. Fortunately, automated tools make curating personalized email content for candidates effortless. Completely personalizing every email for each candidate can be time- and resource-consuming.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter the strategy, the best way to optimize your donor communication processes is to leverage donor data. Your donor data should play a key role in your communication strategy, helping you create targeted content and personal experiences for recipients. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

CRM (which I am defining rather loosely, rather than tightly, for the purpose of this post – as the tool or set of tools used to track constituents, donations, perhaps even events and volunteers) are arguably the most important technology tools that nonprofits use.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

Your Local Pantry (YLP) is a social franchise which is different from a food bank in a number of important ways: The pantries are member-run, open to anyone local, and the membership is not time-limited. Tracking Operations With Real Time Data. The volunteers find it easy and intuitive to use.”.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Now it’s time to face another challenge: As offices begin to re-open, associations must support a combination of onsite and remote workers. Here are four tips to consider as your association’s offices begin to re-open. As you re-open your offices, it’s just as important. Prepare to feel unprepared. The cloud is key.

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

Build an integrated product suite that streamlines data access and unleashes future expansion . To deliver on Candid’s 2030 vision , we must address what we know to be true: people have difficulty finding the information they seek amidst our plethora of tools, products, and services. Take care of Candid staff .

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sgEngage

AUGUST 10, 2021

We already know what to do about this and have the tools to do it. Mostly, I open lots of messages with which I don’t truly engage. In our current engagement tracking, we tend to rely very heavily on opens as confirmation our message was enjoyed and appreciated, but I think we all know that’s not really an accurate tracking mechanism.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. More fundraising software = more data headaches. Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs. We don’t know our data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

to your unengaged subscribers: Added before 60 days + Have not opened any of your last 20 email campaigns. Resending your email campaigns within 3-7 days can increase your email engagement (opens and clicks) by 40%. Create a list of your must-have tools and functions. Manage Your Email List. ConstantContact ].

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, underscored a major theme during the opening keynote that carried through the rest of the conference: together. At a conference packed with grants managers, talk of data and data systems were abundant and layered. The social sector’s information landscape is changing.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The short answer is no, not if you want to use your data in meaningful ways. But what I’d bet you’re really after isn’t one record—it’s complete control over your data—and that IS possible. We knew that there was information in one part of the system that could be very useful for another team. We took two steps: 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. Defeated in fact.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice. On Not Being Constrained by the System You’re In. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. The lack of inclusion and equity in philanthropy. Do we know best what others need?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before we dive in, we want you to start thinking of data as one of your most important assets. Of course, they are valuable assets, but data is, too. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. What do you think about our data?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

After it stops collecting data in July of 2023, it officially will be deleting account data at the end of 2023. As the clock runs out on the year, consider the types of requests you start getting for historical data from Universal Analytics. insert panic} Go through the 5 stages of grief (see below), then get to work.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fortunately, with data, we can better understand members’ behavior and which marketing channel is most effective to reach our members. Let’s start by identifying the best channels and tools to maximize your campaigns. In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. Easy Access to All Data.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

This includes databases, operating systems and other software that is involved in that process. Microsoft has web server software called IIS , and it’s database server product is MS SQL server , which people use for far more than just serving web site data. By Web Server Software, I mean the software used to serve websites/pages.

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Byte Technology

MAY 4, 2016

And in the five decades that FOIA has been in place, trillions of pieces of information have been digested by a wide array of Americans eager for a more transparent system of government. Today, the effects from FOIA continue as state and local entities strive to maintain an openness that would have been unheard of before Johnson’s act.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

A central challenge facing many of today’s nonprofit organizations is the paucity of technology solutions, as well as expertise, available for things like website development, fundraising, data migration, and so on. This data is literally the life’s blood of the organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

You can barely go a day without hearing about ChatGPT or new AI tools, and for good reason—it’s reshaping our world and how we work in countless ways. AI tools enable major gift officers to do more with their time by minimizing administrative tasks, helping with research, and drafting communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn. I was especially interested in the issue of mobile data collection. (I So how do you get SMS data into a database system like CiviCRM?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. What do we mean by “data?”. What can data help your nonprofit achieve?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Clearly explain the purpose and benefits of AI tools. Clearly explain the purpose of AI tools. Begin by defining AI for non-technical team members, explaining that it can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning from data, making predictions, or recognizing patterns. Conduct staff training.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. fusionSpan worked to update antiquated data systems with a new nonprofit Salesforce implementation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. Keep an eye on your campaign progress as soon as you open the app with the dashboard. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We support other languages simultaneously — and the system builds the other-language fields and forms from translations automatically. We do data exchange like no other — with one-click import, export, and bulk update sheets, and an API Builder (not pre-set, fixed APIs). We save our customers at least $20,000 with every data exchange.

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