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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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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.

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The 12 Biggest Fundraising Mistakes and How to Avoid Them!

Qgiv

Solution: Invest in a dedicated donor management system or customer relationship management (CRM) software. Solution: Utilize your donor management system or CRM to segment your audience based on factors such as giving history, interests, demographics, and engagement levels.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She forecasts that humanitarian groups will develop codes of ethics and new standards for digital privacy. The trend is toward nonprofit CRM databases in which a variety of constituents (donors, volunteers, newsletter subscribers etc.) She forecasts that GitHub will be a big deal for charities in the coming year.