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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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4 Tips for Uncovering Your Donors’ Giving Motivations

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Use ethical and organized data collection methods. However, you’ll need to consider the ethics of collecting this information. The three main ethics to keep in mind are consent, confidentiality, and communication. To enhance donor relations, NXUnite recommends conducting thorough research to learn as much as you can.

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6 Ways to Find New Donors for Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

Lean into storytelling , and remember to do it ethically. Tools like Google Analytics, your CRM ,email platform, surveys, and one-on-one conversations can give you tons of insight into whats resonatingand whats not. Thats the first step to turning someone from a stranger into a supporter. Focus on dignity, not pity.

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AI in Action: Deploying Responsible, Effective, and Trustworthy AI

Blackbaud

. “At this stage, one of the barriers to widespread AI deployment is no longer the technology itself; rather, it’s a set of challenges that ironically are far more human: ethics, governance, and human values.”— For example, let’s say you’re building a CRM to track relationships with your donors. That’s rules-based programming.

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5 Steps to Strengthen Your Grantmaking Organization’s Data Governance

Blackbaud

For example, have your grant application automatically pull data into your CRM instead of having to manually enter or update contact records each grant cycle. Match organization names to a database like Candid so The Animal Shelter of Springfield doesn’t accidentally get a second entry under Springfield Animal Shelter.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. Calgary, Alberta: Evening on Data Ethics. Thursday, October 5, 2017.

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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

Tech Soup

More recently Microsoft had an outage in its CRM Online and Office 365 services. To tell you the truth, I'm still not that clear on the difference between confidentiality and privacy, nor the difference between ethics and morals, but perhaps in time. In April, Amazon had an eight hour outage. million user IDs. availability.