Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

help alleviate your fear of dirty data, we have some tips on how to tackle cleaning it up and getting your database in great shape. Spoiler alert - we’ve never encountered an association database that wasn’t in good enough shape to start performing analytics.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, if your system calls for a thank you call to be made to every donor within 7 days of their gift, have your database set to automatically print out a call list for your development director once per week. The database will automatically print out a thank you letter. 2 – Take the Thought Out, if Possible.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 11, 2024

If you’re always looking externally for your next major gift prospect, you may overlook a loyal supporter already in your database. Here are seven types of donors your nonprofit can locate internally.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you making the mistake of focusing all of your energy on donor acquisition and major gift fundraising, largely ignoring the fertile middle of your database? This is a big missed opportunity. There’s gold in the mid-level hills, but you won’t find it unless you go digging.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Here are some tools you can use to assess your current donor database. As your organization prepares for the year-end, it's important to remember that your constituents may have different priorities now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. DATABASICS. Recommendation ?

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Data degrades about 2% per month, meaning your database could become a frightening place filled with stale, duplicated and unusable data. Melissa can help you reconnect with lost donors, deduplicate your database, and reduce fraud by making sure your data is up to date and accurate.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Data degrades about 2% per month, meaning your database could become a frightening place filled with stale, duplicated and unusable data. Melissa can help you reconnect with lost donors, deduplicate your database, and reduce fraud by making sure your data is up to date and accurate.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2024

Data degrades about 2% per month, meaning your database could become a frightening place filled with stale, duplicated and unusable data. Melissa can help you reconnect with lost donors, deduplicate your database, and reduce fraud by making sure your data is up to date and accurate.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 24, 2022

Orr Group officially announced a new service— Outsourced Database Management. Through this service, Orr Group has the capacity and resources to act as an organization’s interim database coordinator or manager.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While small to medium-sized human services organizations use both nonprofit databases and donor relationship management (DRM) solutions, there are three key things a DRM can provide that regular databases don’t. For example, a database can show you historical spikes in giving, but not necessarily why that spike happened.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nonprofits continue to focus their sights on baby boomers, but as the greatest wealth transfer in history is underway, nonprofits will need to adjust their thinking, futureproof their donor databases and find ways to connect with younger generations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to credit and acknowledge donor advised fund gifts in their donor database: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m unsure how to enter donor advised fund gifts in our database so they’re credited and acknowledged appropriately. And do I thank the donor or the administrator?

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2022

This chart should be based on accurate target ask amounts for each potential donor in your database. One of the most critical tools in an annual giving director’s toolkit is a gift chart. Follow this four-step process to create your own gift chart.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

At its core blockchain is a database technology. What makes blockchain unique as a database, however, is its distributed nature. Each node is required to verify transactions and store the same records in the database it hosts. As a database platform, a blockchain can support a range of applications, of which bitcoin is only one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2021

After the webinar, all registrants will receive the new guide How to Discover Major Donors in Your Database Today. Developing donor relationships in the age of social-distancing. Learning how to ask for gifts remotely and in-person. << Register Now >> Please Note: This webinar will be recorded.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Payment platforms; donor database; smartphones; and growth in email, social media and other channels have made a huge impact. Since 2015, so much has changed that it's making sustainer giving much easier for donors and nonprofits.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 23, 2021

We have a number of major donors in our database that, because of their age or illness have stopped giving, but over their lifetime have made significant gifts to our organization. I feel like we can’t just forget about these people, but what should I do?

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 21, 2021

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice, Nhu Te, editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO, is joined by JoAnn Dodd, marketing and database director at Open Door Mission, and Gabe Cooper, founder and CEO of Virtuous.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2023

2) Candid :: candid.org Candid (formerly known as Guidestar) released the first-ever searchable database of nonprofits in 1996 and since then has built one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date databases available to donors, nonprofits, and foundations worldwide.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 18, 2022

Is your database easy? Donor management software that focuses on retention and engagement should be easy. Our free eBook, A Buyer’s Guide to Fundraising Software, will help you identify tools to help simplify your fundraising. Software decisions don’t need to be difficult. Bloomerang can help.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Data Axle announced the addition of more than 100 million audience indicators to its donor database cooperatives, Apogee and DonorBase. Data Axle Nonprofit is launching a comprehensive suite of derived indicators to identify new and expanded donor behaviors, affinities, and gifting potential.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 21, 2023

OpenGiving helps organizations find new donors outside their existing database, leveraging the IRS filings of nonprofits, grant-giving foundations, and the individuals associated with them. announced the launch of "OpenGiving," an AI-powered search engine that changes donor discovery for nonprofits.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 7, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you likely have puddles of data collecting in your organization: AMS/CRM, website logs, rogue databases and spreadsheets. Your data is valuable, but your insights and impact are limited when data is scattered. Let’s pull on our boots and take a joyful leap into our data puddles.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 10, 2023

While some software companies may say, “This platform or donor database is free and oh so cool looking,” you may have to clean up much more of a mess later. I think of the saying “you get what you pay for” when it comes to payment systems and processing for fundraising and recurring gifts.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

2 – Preach to the Choir Remember that your annual appeal letter is going out to your donor database, and only to your donor database. This means that when you’re writing your letter, you’re “preaching to the choir.” Thus, don’t belabor your explanation about what the organization does or the mechanics of your work.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 13, 2023

Even better, the golfer donor represents an affluent, influential demographic that you want represented in your organization’s donor database. Great news—golf tournaments are avenues to successfully do both!

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 6, 2021

Melissa’s solutions for data quality, address verification and identity resolution will help you find, fix or flush bad data so you can connect with supporters, prevent bad data from entering your database and fuel marketing effectiveness.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 18, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you likely have puddles of data collecting in your organization: AMS/CRM, website logs, rogue databases and spreadsheets. Your data is valuable, but your insights and impact are limited when data is scattered. Let’s pull on our boots and take a joyful leap into our data puddles.

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frontstream

JANUARY 15, 2025

Thats where a nonprofit donor database comes in. Read on to learn how to choose a donor database solution, the steps for implementing it, and how you can use it to forge deep, lasting relationships with donors. Donation history, participation in past events, and other data points all influence how you tailor your messaging.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when to soft credit donors in their database: Dear Charity Clairity, I have two questions: (1) Our organization received a check from one spouse, without any paperwork crediting the other spouse. CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The obstacle to international online fundraising thus far has been the lack of an international database of verified NPOs and NGOs. The United States has tax ID numbers (EINs) and the GuideStar database which enables vendors to easily process online donations for nonprofits in the United States without fear of fraud.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 1, 2021

Our panel of experts will provide coaching and guidance that will get your organization up and running with peer-to-peer fundraising and event campaigns to raise significantly more money, grow your donor database, and create more awareness to acquire new donors.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 2, 2024

Meet with your membership database and marketing team to map the member join process and map the journey. A decision could be: Delete all but the last three years of news, or delete all but the last two years of annual meeting information (except session handouts, which will live in a separate database). Where are the friction points?

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 17, 2024

We work with a lot of associations, databases, and data. One man had moved from a member to another member; easy fix in the database. Unlike a fine wine, data does not get better with age. It ages rather poorly, in fact , like a loaf of bread. One moment it seems fine, and the next moment it is in the trash.

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DonorDock

JANUARY 22, 2025

Discover how to effortlessly maintain a clean and organized nonprofit database with our easy-to-follow guide. Learn six essential steps to enhance data hygiene, reduce errors, and improve efficiency, ensuring your nonprofit's data is always in top shape."

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The MatrixFiles

AUGUST 5, 2022

Most professionals budget for whatever technical or operational project they are proposing, e.g., a custom database application, a website redesign, etc. When proposing new initiatives, include the marketing and communications plan in the project budget. Megan’s advice is brilliant.

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