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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

This is a two part article on how to create fundraising systems for your nonprofit. In Part 1, we will talk about what fundraising systems are and why they are important for development. In Part 2, we will show you how to create systems at your organization. In short, this nonprofit lacked fundraising systems.

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The Complete Membership Database Selection Guide

Wild Apricot

This membership database selection guide is perfect to help small organizations, associations and nonprofits just getting started with formally managing their member data or looking to switch systems.

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Ask Maureen: Cleaning Up a Messy Fundraising Database

sgEngage

Dear Maureen, My organization’s fundraising database is a hot mess! We’ve had some turnover on our development team, and it seems like every person has used the system differently. There are no rules, and that means our database is almost useless. It’s time to get your team on the same page about how the database should be used.

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At its core blockchain is a database technology. What makes blockchain unique as a database, however, is its distributed nature. Each node is required to verify transactions and store the same records in the database it hosts. As a database platform, a blockchain can support a range of applications, of which bitcoin is only one.

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5 Must-Have Productivity Software Products Nonprofits Need to Be Effective in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. DATABASICS. Recommendation ?

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You Get What You Pay for With Free Technology

NonProfit PRO

I think of the saying “you get what you pay for” when it comes to payment systems and processing for fundraising and recurring gifts. While some software companies may say, “This platform or donor database is free and oh so cool looking,” you may have to clean up much more of a mess later.

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?3 Reasons to Integrate Your Organization’s Systems

Saleforce Nonprofit

So when you use a main CRM database, such as Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), along with an assortment of ‘satellite’ systems for online giving, fundraising events, email marketing, eCommerce, volunteers, and the like, data integrity has to be top of mind. You store supporter data in various systems.