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Is It Time for Your Nonprofit or School to Make a CRM Change?

Blackbaud

After we made introductions, I asked about their donor CRM, jotting notes as they shared their hopes, frustrations, and data woes. As their list of frustrations grew and their unfulfilled hopes piled up, they asked me if I thought it was time to change to another donor CRM. It was a client kickoff call like so many others.

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4 Proven Direct Mail Fundraising Strategies For Nonprofits

Pamela Grow

Your donors arent just names in your nonprofits CRM. For example, segment your donors within your CRM. Use short sentences, simple language, and contractions. Theyre partners in your mission and vital threads in the fabric of your community. Dont convolute your message with complex words and long-winded sentences.

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4 Tips to Optimize Your Donor Database to Boost Engagement

Ann Green's Nonprofit

A robust donor database or constituent relationship management (CRM) system is one of the best tools you have at your disposal to boost engagement at your nonprofit. Create Thorough Donor Profiles Donor profiles are essential relationship-building tools that are built into nearly every nonprofit CRM. Lets dive in!

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Understanding the Grant Lifecycle: Info for Nonprofits

Blackbaud

Bonus Tip: Explore and incorporate available tools in your fundraising CRM to help track your applications, related actions, contacts, timeline, accounting considerations, and attachments. Accept Funding Accepting funding requires more than just signing a contract. Objective: Formally acknowledge and accept the grant award.

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4 Top Donor Retention Strategies to Keep Your Year-End Donors

CauseVox

Use your donation software such as a CRM or even a spreadsheet to track and monitor this essential donor data. Typical fundraising software is clunky, complex, and contract-bound, but CauseVox actually tidies up your digital fundraising. Were they forwarded a link through email from one of your clients?

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Best Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Platforms: Top 8 Tools for 2025

DoJiggy

Pricing: The peer-to-peer package starts at $229/month No long-term contract required Choosing the Right Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Platform When selecting a peer-to-peer fundraising platform, you’ll likely want to consider the following factors. Integrations and Data: Consider how well the platform integrates with your CRM and other tools.

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Stop Begging, Start Planning: Why Foundations Are Done Funding Complacent Nonprofits

Planned Giving

Organizations lacking diversified funding streams become particularly vulnerable during economic downturns, when both individual giving and foundation support typically contract. Modern CRM systems enable sophisticated segmentation and personalized communication at scale, dramatically improving fundraising efficiency.