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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

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Worse still, if you weren’t in “the cloud”, then your organization was exposed to all sorts of risks, problems and unnecessary costs? Not long ago, chatting with a prospective customer about their donor data storage practices, I suggested we step back and look at the organization’s bigger technology picture.

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Attention nonprofits: We don’t know our donor data!

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But your organization only knows data. When the personal relationship is interrupted, what does the organization “know” about the donor? Yet how can we develop long term relationships between our donors and our organization without managing and improving the quality of our donor data? Because you are telling us so.

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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

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3 – Who is responsible for maintaining data quality in your organization? GARY: Data policies will vary from one organization to the next, but they should not vary too much. All organizations are dealing with roughly the same issues. Hygiene: How frequently, and on what schedule, will your organization clean data?

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Fundraising without donor data: What’s that proverb about giving a man a fish?

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If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. All businesses and organizations need to develop predictable revenue streams. Our client took it as a given that lots of money came into the organization through “anonymous” donors.

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It’s that time of year: your 8-step fundraising data checklist

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Fundraising data has many touch-points throughout your organization. This post pulls together insights and recommendations that we have made since last year’s appeal and organizes them into a helpful list, with references to past blog posts and other sources. Tweet the numbers, not just the call to action. Nothing new there.

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CRM data migration: it’s all about the future

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Why am I being so emphatic as I talk about CRM data and your organization’s future? Too much bad or unusable data, however, will leave you with an array of data hoarding problems that will clog your donor databases, put a drag on fundraising efficiency, and hurt your organization. End of story.

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

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1 – Does your organization have a data management plan? 2 – When was the last time your organization cleaned your donor data? 3 – Is someone in your organization responsible for data quality? Based on our work in the field, the feedback was not unexpected. Within the past 3 months = 30%. Not sure = 40%.

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