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7 Database Goals for Your Independent School’s Capital Campaign

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When evaluating your school’s readiness for a capital campaign, database readiness might not be at the top of the list for your campaign consultants or administration. An audit query can be as simple as looking for data entry errors, like a recent cash gift with a gift date of two years later. Review reporting.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

It does Direct Marketing but not Major Gift fundraising (or it does Major Gift fundraising but not Direct Marketing); we need support in both areas. Or the cost of maintaining current hardware or paying current licensing fees vs. the cost a new system. Difficulties in training new staff or volunteers on the database.

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Introducing Apsona batch gift entry for the Nonprofit Starter Pack

Judi Sohn

At KELL Partners , we couldn’t migrate them to a NPSP-based solution without a decent batch gift entry solution. You have to match those gifts to existing donors or create new ones if they don’t exist. You have to make sure those gifts aren’t already attached to pledges. More than worth the time it will save.

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

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You can find discounted licenses for InDesign on sites like TechSoup. Calculate personalized gift strings based on the donor’s last gift amount. Consider running your list against the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) and National Change of Address (NCOA) databases. Canva can’t do that, but Adobe InDesign can.

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Is Salesforce.com Right for Your Nonprofit?

Network for Good

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. Salesforce.com is a San Francisco company that makes an online database available to nonprofits. What is Salesforce.com?

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Is Salesforce.com Right for Your Nonprofit?

Network for Good

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. Salesforce.com is a San Francisco company that makes an online database available to nonprofits. What is Salesforce.com?

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. Create your engagement plan informed by the data you collected.

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