Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Cabral, MA, CFRE will lead you through the why and how of creating your own database standards manual and processes to ensure that you are not leading your organization down the path of “Garbage In=Garbage Out.” We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise. Right, Robin?

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2024

Maybe you’ve tried numerous ‘ win back’ campaigns that failed to convert them, and you’re wondering whether you should just delete them from your database. If you’re like most nonprofits, the average age of the donors in your file is 64. You can run a date of birth append on your files to find your donors’ birthdays.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This involves getting data from an API and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. In the second phase, we’ll develop an application that uses a language model to interact with this database. The second article, which will come later, will delve into creating agents using tools like LangChain to communicate with external databases.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with multiple federal employee unions, have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to block their access to sensitive and identifying information on millions of Americans.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 6, 2023

And, when it comes to data engineering solutions, it’s no different: They have databases, ETL tools, streaming platforms, and so on — a set of tools that makes our life easier (as long as you pay for them). Create Python or Spark processing jobs using the visual interface, code editor, or Jupyter notebooks. not sponsored.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I felt it would work well for this use case — as opposed to spinning up an EMR on EC2 cluster — because this is a fairly ad-hoc project, I’m paranoid about cluster costs, and initially I was unsure about what resources the job would require. EMR Serverless makes it pretty easy to experiment with job parameters.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

You must have your founding Board of Directors and officers selected prior to filing your Articles of Formation or Articles of Incorporation with the state. Prepare and file Articles of Incorporation. . The agency fees are $275 for organizations filing Form 1023-EZ and $600 for organizations filing Form 1023.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Extract and Load This phase includes VDK jobs calling the Europeana REST API to extract raw data. Specifically, it defines three jobs: job1 — delete the existing table (if any) job2 — create a new table job3 — ingest table values directly from the REST API. Finally, we are ready to use the cleaned data somewhere.

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Towards Data Science

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity Build a robust GraphQL API service on top of your S3 data lake files with DuckDB and Go Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash 1. To make such use case work, we will typically need a database that will be able to process queries in a fast customer-facing latency.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas. File Sharing Online: Google Drive or Dropbox. Step 1: Two is better than one. Team Task Tracking: Trello.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 7, 2025

One question that puzzled me, though, was how tools like the Debezium CDC connectors can read changes from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Change Data Capture (CDC) is a powerful and efficient tool for transmitting data changes from relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Sure, transactional logs might be the answerbut why?

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s possible to go from simple ETL pipelines built with python to move data between two databases to very complex structures, using Kafka to stream real-time messages between all sorts of cloud structures to serve multiple end applications. The idea is simple: create a bucket and store files in it. in CSV files (one per year).

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. Save the file in its original format and in the format your design software requires for mail merge. Consider running your list against the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) and National Change of Address (NCOA) databases. to Juan Carlos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

No, it’s not slick, but Filezilla does the job nicely. It has shortcuts for all of your servers, has nice drag and drop for moving files around, allows you to do all sorts of remote actions on files, etc. It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS. I use it all the time, and I really like it.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Clean data are accurate and free of errors, and a clean database minimizes duplicate records and other data clutter. One of the most basic integrations that a foundation may need is to import data into your main CRM database or financial system from various spreadsheets that staff members maintain across the organization.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Now, free users will be able to add as many blocks as they like to their personal Notion database. Job seekers are using this feature to create dynamic resumes that point to their work, the company says. While the basic plan will become free, Notion will also introduce a paid personal plan with premium features.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required. File for incorporation File articles of incorporation within the state your nonprofit will operate from. You can either file Form 1023 or 1023-EZ. Write job descriptions. Identify skill requirements.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s probably happened to anyone who has changed jobs in fundraising a few times – you inherit files that are less than helpful. I’ve recently been dealing with “inherited” files, and occasionally it has felt overwhelming. As you review files and identify contacts, put a list of names, emails and numbers in the front.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

“We’re investigating switching some of the infrastructure from GUN to IPFS [InterPlanetary File System; aka a p2p hypermedia protocol], and improving the user interface. “Others may use the same technology but I think we can do a good job on building something simple that just works and that is a pleasure to use.”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2014

If you haven’t already, take a look at my Spring Cleaning Your Database article from this time last year. I’m a big fan of visuals and job aids, and have found that process documentation that can fit on a single page will actually get read, leading to a much higher rate of adoption (perceived ease of use as noted above).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus can be a sign of a larger issue. valuation after reported $12B IPO filing . Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Essential categories need to be personal to the job – and actual choices, even more personal. Here are my categories and choices.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The steps to incorporate your nonprofit include: Filing for an Employer Identification Number (EIN). There is a small fee required from your state’s corporate filing office to submit these articles. Nonprofits typically invest in resources such as: A CRM database. Having an EIN is essential for tax identification purposes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. If you are looking for a new job or want to build or enhance your personal brand online, Re.vu Foter is an online database of royalty free images. Clker is an online database of royalty free clip art. Re.vu :: re.vu.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Simply cobbling together data pipelines and cron jobs across various applications no longer works, so there are new considerations when discussing data platforms at scale. Amid the rush to keep up with generative AI and Large Language Model trends, specialized data stores like vector databases become essential.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who have worked in nonprofits for many years will recall a time—not all that long ago—when much of the work of development and finance was done on paper and stored in rows and rows of filing cabinets. Clear and easy to understand data empowers members of the entire organization with tools to improve their jobs.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 5, 2024

The storage system is using Capacitor, a proprietary columnar storage format by Google for semi-structured data and the file system underneath is Colossus, the distributed file system by Google. The compute engine is based on Dremel and it uses Borg for cluster management, running thousands of Dremel jobs across cluster(s).

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

You run a search, and it yields up results from a database that is regularly updated. You run a search, and it yields up results from a database, but the information is likely to become obsolete quickly. Examples of such opportunities might be jobs, petitions, volunteer openings, events, gifts in kind, or surplus office space.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

Most of us connected-types had accounts with a web hosting company, and the thought of setting up a MySQL database, uploading a folder via FTP and running a setup script in a browser was no big deal. I love that I was easily able to set a cron job with my host which automatically updates my feeds on a regular basis. Extremely readable.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

Most of us connected-types had accounts with a web hosting company, and the thought of setting up a MySQL database, uploading a folder via FTP and running a setup script in a browser was no big deal. I love that I was easily able to set a cron job with my host which automatically updates my feeds on a regular basis. Extremely readable.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

If you don’t already have a major gift portfolio, you can start one by determining who your current major donors are using your donor database. You can expand your portfolio by conducting prospect research to determine who else in your donor database or broader community has a high propensity and capacity to donate to your cause.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It is already established crypto does a good job of fractionalizing complex financial contracts. It actually does a very good job of ownership and removing ambiguity. Could you do that with a database rather than the blockchain? “I think there’s pieces of our idea that you could replicate with a database.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. Stop filing and attaching and saving and start sharing. What about a fundraising tool? Trust more.

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Even if you just file a form 990, and aren’t subject to GAAP, it’s useful to follow their recommendations from the perspective of internal management, control and planning. . How you enter in-kind gifts in your donor database will somewhat depend on how your CRM is set up. DEVELOPMENT: 1. Entering the gift .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If your organization is functioning without a content management system and a relationship management system that serves all your database needs, however, chances are you're wasting time (re)entering data, recreating communications every time, or waiting on someone with the technical capacity to take care of content and communications tasks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

“Everyone wants to be strategic, but it’s so tough to do because 80% of your time is pulling data from these disparate systems, cleaning it, mapping it, updating your Excel files, and maybe 20% of [your time] is actually taking a step back and understanding what the data is telling you,” Moallemi said.

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