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Comparing PayPal and DonorSnap with goEmerchant for Online Donations
Watch the PayPal vs. DonorSnap with goEmerchant Webinar.Ā Are you using PayPal to collect online donations?Ā Many nonprofits use PayPal because of their discounted nonprofit rates. While PayPal is a great choice for many nonprofits, there are other options for...
6 Reasons to Upgrade from Excel to a Nonprofit CRM
Is your nonprofit using excel as its database? Many small or newer nonprofits will use excel to track all of their donors and donation data. This is a common and affordable approach for a season, but there are a number of reasons why most nonprofits canāt afford to...
Four Ways Automation Will Help Your Nonprofit Succeed
Do you agree that people are your nonprofitās most valuable resource? If so, then you know how much your staff and volunteers do to carry out your mission. With only so many hours in the day, are you focusing on tasks that could be left to automation? Many nonprofits...
Giving Tuesday āØ Spam Tuesday āØ Blacklist Tuesday
Are you going to damage your email reputation for the dream of easy money? This is an extremely important question to ask yourself as you get ready for Giving Tuesday. Donāt let it become the day that you SPAM all of your supporters, and lose the privilege to email...
How to Find Duplicates in your Database using an NCOA Cleaning
There is no magic pill that will keep your contact list free of duplicates.Ā Even the organizations with full-time staffs are plagued with this problem. In a past article, I wrote about DonorSnapās live duplicate checking tool that will alert you to possible...
Protecting Your Donorsā Information on the Internet
Lately youāve seen many news stories relating to data breaches and personal information being hacked, and you may be wondering, āHow can I protect my nonprofit organization?ā The advent of the internet world in many ways have been a blessing and a curse.Ā Data is now...
Donor Fatigue ā Fact or Fiction?
Ā āDonor fatigueā is when your organizationās donors lose interest in your organization over time, and it is accelerated by asking for donations too often. Ā Over time every organization experiences the effect of long-term donors losing interest. This waning interest...
One Organizationās Fundraising Event Experience and Evolution
Most organizations hold an annual fundraiser to supplement and augment their operating budget. Ā The nonprofit Malaika Early Learning Center that was started by my wife and I (and the genesis for DonorSnap) is no different.Ā Malaika started in 2003 and we held our...
QuickBooks is NOT a Donor Management System
(Donor Management Software is NOT an Accounting System) Many new and smaller organizations gravitate to QuickBooks to help keep track of the organizations finances.Ā The seemingly logical extension of this software is to use it to keep detailed records of donor...
Is Social Media Necessary for Nonprofits?
Nonprofit organizations stand to gain a lot from the smart usage of social media. The key word here is āsmart.ā Not all nonprofits have a target audience that is going to be active across all social media networks. It is important for organizations to do some analysis...
Checking for Duplicate Contacts On the Fly
How to keep your database free from duplicates without slowing down. The demise of all donor and contact management systems (or CRMs) is the creeping addition of duplicate contacts. There are many sources for duplicate entries, but every organization is bound to...
What is the Difference Between a Campaign and an Appeal?
If you are looking at the best strategy to raise money for your organization, cause or event, you might have heard the terms ācampaignā and āappealā used seemingly interchangeably. However, there are some important differences between a campaign and appeal that you...