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RAISER’S EDGE USER GROUPTHE PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL

06/06/2011 1

THE PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDAT ION

TORONTO , ONJUNE 1 4 , 2 0 11

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INTRODUCT IONS & ICEBREAKER

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INTRODUCT IONS & ICEBREAKER

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GENERAL GUIDELINES

• Today is meant to be a forum; the sharing of your ideas is critical.

• Everyone’s input is equally valuable.

• Listen to and learn from those around you.

• Our role is to steer discussion, clarify points & facilitate input from all

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participants.

• Take advantage of this time & enjoy yourself today!

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AGENDA

8:30 – 9:00 Registration, Coffee & Tea Networking

9:00 – 9:15 Introductions & Icebreaker

9:15 – 10:30Tips & Techniques Presentation: presented by Eve Lacouture, The Kidney

Foundation of Canada and Chris Geady, Blackbaud

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:15 Poll the Experts

11:15 – 12:15 Breakout groups – by job role

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11:15 – 12:15 Breakout groups – by job role

12:15 – 1:00 Networking lunch

1:00 – 1:15 Blackbaud News Update

1:15 – 2:15 Breakout groups – by topic

2:15 – 2:30 Summary/Dismissal

2:30 – 2:45 Q&A/Conclusion

2:45 – 3:45Thought Leadership, There’s a Stat for That , & Internet Solutions Demos:

Presented by Rachel Simon & Victoria Goins, Chris Geady, Blackbaud (optional)

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MANAGING YOUR RAISER’S EDGE DATABASE

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MANAGING YOUR RAISER’S EDGE DATABASEEVE LACOUTURE , THE K IDNEY FOUNDAT ION OF CANADA

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MANAGING YOUR RAISER’S EDGE DATABASE

• Document

• Monitor

• Keep it clean

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• Engage & train users

• Review

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DOCUMENT

• Document your organization’s policies & procedures

• Your standards & preferences

• Your methods & logic

• Have users commit to respecting the p&p

• Update your policies & procedures

• Keep users informed of your changes

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• Keep users informed of your changes

• Create quick how-to guidelines

• Have a plan for training new users

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MONITOR YOUR DATA

• Use dashboards to check on data being added.

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• Use queries to find records with missing data

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MONITOR YOUR DATA

• Run duplicate reports – make sure to vary your criteria

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MONITOR YOUR DATA

• Find new potential Major Donors with no solicitor assignment

• Reconcile with Finance on a regular basis

• Document reconciliation process and problems

• Post gifts

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KEEP USERS ENGAGED

• Have user check-ins on a regular basis

• What takes the most time?

• What’s difficult?

• Sit & observe

• Help with data entry

• Train – yourself and your end-users

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• Train – yourself and your end-users

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KEEP IT CLEAN

• Inactivate Campaigns, Funds & Appeals on a regular basis – New list should be distributed

• Delete static queries no longer in use

• Delete extra copies of reports, mail tasks & exports

• Mark records inactive based on your P&P

• Mark In Memory tribute records as deceased

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• Mark In Memory tribute records as deceased

• Purge

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KEEP IT CLEAN

• Raiser’s Edge tools can help:

• Global add

• Global change

• Global delete

• Global write-off

• Use MS Excel™ to format data and use import to modify records

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REVIEW

• Conduct an annual database review:

• Review your list of users & your security groups

• Review your table entries

• Review your attributes

• Review Blackbaud Services

• Seek-out contraband data and develop a plan to bring it back into the fold

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• Seek-out contraband data and develop a plan to bring it back into the fold

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MANAGING YOUR RAISER’S EDGE DATABASE

To your calendars:

- Set aside a little bit of time every week to manage your database

- Schedule monthly end-user check-ins

- Schedule an annual review of your database

Keys to successful database management:

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- Security

- Policies & procedures

- Monitoring

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BETTER DONOR RECOGNIT ION

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BETTER DONOR RECOGNIT IONWHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE G I FT COMES I N?

CHR IS GEADY, SOLUT IONS CONSULTANT

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“First, I’ll need to see an audited statement of revenue and expenses.”

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OVERVIEW

• Why do donors give?

• Building your stewardship program

• Standard stewardship stuff

• Going above and beyond

• Other tips

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• Other tips

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WHY DO DONORS GIVE?

• Through research to solve a problem, cure a disease or build knowledge

• To encourage clients/students and provide financial support

• To facilitate change

• To fuel economic growth

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• To contribute to a happier, healthier, more productive society

• To acknowledge achievement or love

• Local, national or international in scope

• Determine the motivation as part of your stewardship program.

Source: Pro-active Stewardship, CCAE Canada

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BUILDING YOUR STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

• Ask yourself:

- What do your donors need and want from your organization?

- Who are your top donors and what are your plans for them?

- How do we use stewardship to increase donor retention and loyalty?

• Considerations:

- Include stewardship opportunities for all levels of donors (not just

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- Include stewardship opportunities for all levels of donors (not just major/legacy donors)

- Strive for high touch, high impact

- Type and frequency of reports, correspondence, etc.

- Design channels for donors that complain (why?)

- Who is responsible for which tasks

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SAMPLE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

• Annual/Event Donors

- Add to Silver Recognition Group (immediately)

- eReceipt and Targeted TY Letter (1 week)

- Quarterly eNewsletter (recurring)

- Annual Report publication delivery (Current FY)

• Major/VIP Donors

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• Major/VIP Donors

- Add to Platinum Recognition Group (immediately)

- eReceipt and Personal TY Letter (1 week)

- Quarterly and Solicitor eNewsletter (recurring)

- Follow-up phone call by Executive Director and Board Member (3-4 weeks)

- Publish article about the gift (depending on level) in local media (2-3 mo.)

- Donor Wall and Annual Report listing and publication delivery (Current FY)

- Invitation to special media event (Current FY)

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STANDARD PROGRAM ELEMENTS

• Tax Receipt (required by CRA) (electronic or paper)

• Thank you letters (electronic or paper)

• Assignment to Recognition Levels/Groups/Circles (example: see right)

• Donor Listings

• Supporter Stories

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• Supporter Stories

• Quarterly Newsletters, Annual Reports

• Solicitor eNewsletters

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RECOGNITION LEVELS

• Two main ways to track recognition levels:

1. In the Constituent record, record the recognition level using:

- Constituent Codes (easy to find, but limited fields/flexibility)

- Actions (use specific Action Type)

- Attributes (limited flexibility)

- Prospect Ratings (requires Search module)

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- Prospect Ratings (requires Search module)

2. Outside the Constituent record

- Set up Donor Categories in Configuration (needs to be based on dollar amounts)

- Query (very flexible, nothing stored in Constituent record unless you use Global Add)

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RECOGNITION LEVEL IN CONSTITUENT RECORD

• Constituent Codes

- Easy to filter/limit reports

- Be careful about number of Constituent Code choices in dropdown

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• Actions

- More fields than Constituent codes

- Auto-Remind functionality creates great workflows!

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RECOGNITION LEVEL OUTSIDE CONSTITUENT RECORD

• Donor Categories

- Forces your recognition levels to be dollar amount-based

- Use Donor Category Report to obtain up-to-date lists

- Filters: date, Const. Code, CFA’s,

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gift types, query

- Amount Given is an optional column

• Query

- Use a Constituent query

- Query results may be used in reports, exports, mail merges, Global Adds, etc.

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NEWSLETTERS, ANNUAL REPORTS, SOLICITORS

• Create an easy way to track recipients:

- Track using Solicit Codes, Constituent Codes or Attributes

• Allow the donor to manage their subscriptions by phone, mail or Internet

- Internet is truly a self-service option

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- Internet is truly a self-service option

- Blackbaud NetCommunity integrates directly with RE Constituent record!

• Turn your solicitors into superstars, give them their own eNewsletter

• One step further: keep staff informed with an internal communication/newsletter

- Include internal stewardship stories not published in the quarterly newsletter

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GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND

• Profiling questions

• Gift Announcements/Media Releases

• Articles about gift in newsletters/publications

• Special letters: condolence, congratulations

• Special occasion cards (holiday, birthday, anniversary)

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• Invitations to donor/VIP stewardship events

- Networking, Public/Media Relations

• Information about how funds were used

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PROFILING QUESTIONS

• Ask supporters for information during solicitation/cultivation:- Interests- Communication Preferences (Language,

Delivery Method)- Donor/Patient/Supporter Stories- Promotion Opportunities (Volunteer,

Events, Major Prospect, etc.)

• Store this information in the Constituent

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• Store this information in the Constituent record:- Constituent Codes- Attributes- Module-specific areas- Other renamed fields

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SPECIAL LETTERS

• Send out letters directly from the Constituent record using the “Letters” menu

• Letter names and content are completely configurable

• Archive finished letters by clicking “Save this document as an action”

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this document as an action”

• Each user may have a different list of letters

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SPECIAL OCCASION CARDS

• Examples: birthday, anniversary, holiday, etc.

• Tracking (for individual events):

- Use Action Reminders (can even do a mail merge on the spot)

• Tracking (for mass lists):

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• Tracking (for mass lists):

- You only need to track in the Constituent record if staff want to have individual control over who’s on the list.

- Try to discourage this! Rather try to set criteria of who’s on the list, then you can use a query and avoid individual selection. Now you can use a query (much more automated and can be easily reused).

- Use the query to feed a mail merge. Track the results using an Appeal (ie. Appeal tab in Constituent record). See next slide for more…

- If it’s unavoidable then refer to “tracking on the Constituent record”)

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TRACKING MASS MAILING USING APPEALS

• Set up an Appeal record for each mass mailing. Add this appeal to the Appeals tab (in the Constituent record) when the mail/email is sent.

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SPECIAL EVENTS – MEDIA RELATIONS

• Publicize the event (if applicable). In order to get the word out, track media contacts.

- (Constituent Code = Media, Relationship Contact Type = Media Contact)

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Improved Media

More Donor Exposure

Better Stewardship

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STEWARDSHIP EVENTS – TIPS

• Track invitee and attendee lists in event module

• Use multi-channel communications: follow-up invitations by a follow-up phone call. Increases participation rate and donor loyalty (retention).

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- Track (and honour) donor communication preferences in Bio 1 tab: Solicit codes and DNC (in Phones/Email/Links)

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HOW FUNDS ARE USED

• How are you tracking/reporting this information right now?

• Task someone to enter this information into selected Fund records (for general info) and selected Constituent/gift records for major/significant donations

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• Publish the percentage of funds that go toward your mission on your website (specifically on the donation page)

Can show up on TY letters and tax receipt

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EXERCISE – GROUP DISCUSSION

• What does your stewardship program look like today?

• What measures could you take to improve your program (without spending a lot of money)?

• Would you cease any of your program components? Why?

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TIPS

• Start small. Start with one group of donors, analyze and see what happens.

• Balance your time (equally) between stewardship and cultivation.

• Automate (simple) stewardship processes as much as possible.

• Use your Home Page to your best advantage.

• Go green, save $. You may attract new donors just for doing it.

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• Go green, save $. You may attract new donors just for doing it.

• Why?

– Save time for quality activities.

– Improve donor retention.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Pro-active Stewardship (http://www.ccaecanada.org/development/documents/Pro_Active_Stewardship.pdf)

• Goals for the Major Gifts Officer (http://www.majorgiving.com/resources/files/mdofficergoals.pdf)

• Donor Stewardship, Centre Point (http://thecentrepoint.ca/FDPlus/resources/library/grantwriting/donor-stewardship/)

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• Blackbaud Consulting and Training services

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SUMMARY

• Donors give for specific reasons. Determine this as part of your stewardship program.

• Build a program that has different recognition/stewardship levels for different types of donors.

• Balance your efforts between cultivation and stewardship equally.

• Encourage the donor to be involved in determining the

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• Encourage the donor to be involved in determining the amount/frequency of communication/stewardship. They’re the star!

• Be creative: donors are savvy and have “seen it all”.

• Track as much of your stewardship activities in RE as possible. This promotes organizational intelligence.

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THANK YOU!

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BREAK

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BREAK

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POLL THE EXPERTS

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POLL THE EXPERTS

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BREAKOUT SESS ION

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BREAKOUT SESS ION BY JOB ROLE

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

• Group 1: Executive Director/Director of Development

• Group 2: Information Technology/Information Systems

• Group 3: Marketing/Communications

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• Group 3: Marketing/Communications

• Group 4: Planned Gifts/Major Gifts/Researchers

• Group 5: Database Administration

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GENERAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

� What issues do you find affect organizations like yours?

� What have you come up with to deal with these issues?

� What kinds of constituency groups (“segments”) do you have?

� Do you communicate differently with these groups? How so?

� What does your coding system look like?

� How is your office structured (what roles do you play, and what roles do others play)?

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play)?

� What is the best “new idea” you or your staff has implemented at your organization? (It can relate to ANYTHING – a data entry best practice, a new marketing concept, an operational change…ANYTHING!)

� Have you found any ways to use Raiser’s Edge to get around a unique situation? What did you do?

� What optional modules do you use in the Raiser’s Edge? How do you use them?

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NETWORKING LUNCH

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NETWORKING LUNCH

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BLACKBAUD NEWS UPDATE

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BLACKBAUD NEWS UPDATE

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06/06/2011 47RE User Group

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• Save hours of time through more efficient use of your software

• Train your entire staff – all for one low price

• Keep employees happy, reducing turnover

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• Get training from the Blackbaud experts

• Chose from live and prerecorded training to fit your schedule

• Take classes according to your role – we’ll recommend them for you

• Receive more than software training with strategy and best practice sessions

• Choose from three tiers to best suit your needs:

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“No matter what level of class , I always got at least one or two tips and tricks that

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Development Associate

Family House, Inc.

HEAR IT FROM OUR CUSTOMERS!

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Database Specialist

School Sisters of Notre Dame

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Blackbaud Learntraining subscription!

An arts and cultural nonprofit in California took $23,240 worth of training.

But because Blackbaud Learn offers unlimited training for the entire staff,

they only paid $3,500 for the subscription, for a total savings of $19,740.

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

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BREAKOUT GROUPSBY TOP IC

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

• Group 1: Internet Strategy & eMarketing

• Group 2: Queries, Reports, & Profiles in The Raiser’s Edge

• Group 3: Database Management & Importing

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• Group 3: Database Management & Importing

• Group 4: Analytics & Prospect Research

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TOPIC 1 : INTERNET STRATEGY AND E -

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TOPIC 1 : INTERNET STRATEGY AND E -MARKET ING

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INTERNET STRATEGY AND E-MARKETING

� Do you have an email marketing strategy?

� Do you create personal, targeted messages based on specific segments?

� What information in Raiser’s Edge do you use for segmentation?

� Do you take online donations? How do you get the information into Raiser’s Edge?

� Do you send direct mail acknowledgements to online donors?

� What types of giving options do you provide online?

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� What types of giving options do you provide online?

� How much of your overall fundraising comes through your website?

� Do you take online event registrations? What type of events?

� Have you seen an increase in participants by having an online registration?

� How does your website and email fit into your overall organization’s development efforts?

� What challenges do you have in building an internet strategy?

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TOPIC 2 : QUERIES , REPORTS , & PROF ILES

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TOPIC 2 : QUERIES , REPORTS , & PROF ILES IN THE RAISER’S EDGE

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QUERIES IN THE RAISER’S EDGE

� What types of queries do you run most frequently?

� What kinds of giving queries do you create (cumulative giving, annual giving, etc.)?

� What techniques in query give you the most issues?

� What shortcuts have you found?

� How do you use output limits in query (random sampling)?

� What methods do you use to train others at your organization on query?

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� What methods do you use to train others at your organization on query?

� What summary fields do you most frequently use (total given, average amount, pledge balance)?

� How else do you use Action queries, Gift queries, or other queries in your system?

� What queries do you have on your homepage? Do you use any change or clean-up queries?

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REPORTS & PROFILES IN THE RAISER’S EDGE

� What reports do you run most frequently?

� How often do you run these reports?

� Which reports confuse you and why?

� Which reports have you found to be the most useful?

� Who has worked with Crystal Reports? What kinds of reports have you created using Crystal?

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created using Crystal?

� Do you frequently create reports for others? What methods do you use for requests such as these?

� What methods have you found useful in training your colleagues to create their own reports?

� Do you use profiles? Who in your office uses them?

� What information do you find is most helpful on profiles?

� Do you use Pivot Reports or Dashboards? Give some examples.

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TOPIC 3 : DATA MANAGEMENT & IMPORT ING

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TOPIC 3 : DATA MANAGEMENT & IMPORT ING

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DATA MANAGEMENT & IMPORTING

� Who uses Batch for gift entry? Who uses manual entry?

� Who must process updates/gifts from the Internet? What is your process like? How do you keep your data standards in check?

� Who has experience importing information? What types of imports do you do most frequently?

� How do you ensure that your records are regularly updated with accurate addresses, phone numbers, and emails?

� Who is using Action Tracks? What scenarios work well?

� How do you ensure clean and accurate information transfer between development entry and business office entry?

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business office entry?

� What business rules are most effective for data entry or data maintenance at your organization?

� What methods do you have for keeping information clean? Policies and Procedures? Change queries? Global changes? Internal training?

� What are some of the different sources that you get data from?

� What is your process for getting that data into RE?

� What types of clean-up work is done to the file before and after an import? How long does this take?

� How confident are you about the integrity of the data you are importing?

� What is your acknowledgement/cultivation strategy for contacts or donors that are imported into RE?

� Is there any data you are currently not getting into RE because of a lack of time/resources?

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TOPIC 4 : ANALYT ICS & PROSPECT

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TOPIC 4 : ANALYT ICS & PROSPECT RESEARCH

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ANALYTICS & PROSPECT RESEARCH

� An open discussion around best practices, ideas, and strategies, for large and small organizations, as they pertain to Prospect Research and Analytics.

� Upgrading annual & mid-level donors

� Major and Planned Donor prospecting and identification

� Tracking sensitive information in RE

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� Segmenting your data beyond giving history (RFM)

� Research tools: What external sources are working, what’s not?

� What pieces of a prospects profile are most important to you, and why?

� Monthly donor conversion

� Finding the “hidden gems” in RE

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THERE’S A STAT FOR THATA Review of Fundraising and Internet Statistics

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• Cut through the STATic (focus on the right numbers)

• Demystify trends

TODAY WE WILL…

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• Provide helpful information for strategic business decisions

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MEET YOUR PRESENTERS

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Rachel SimonVictoria Goins

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1.Your supporters are online

2. Like a book, your website is being

judged by its cover

3.Email is alive and well

WHAT’S GOING ON OUT THERE?

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4. The Aunt Mabel effect cannot be

underestimated (peer to peer

fundraising)

5. Traditional fundraising has evolved

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YOUR AUDIENCE IS ONLINE

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81% of households in Ontario have access to the Internet.

And the number continues to grow.

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• 83% of Canadians 34 and under use the internet daily

• It’s not just the young crowd - 66% of ages

EVERYONE MATTERS

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crowd - 66% of ages 65+ are online daily (compared to 46% in the US)

• 97% of households with income of 87K+ are online

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THEY'RE NOT JUST SURFING THE WEB

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Online Giving is growing at a rate of 34.5% YOY

88% of organizations received an online gift of $1,000 or more in 2010

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SO WHAT’S THE POINT?

• Your supporters are online

• Your prospects are online

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• They are increasingly likely to give via the internet

• Don’t miss out

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F IRST IMPRESS IONS MATTER

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F IRST IMPRESS IONS MATTER

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MAKING A FIRST IMPRESSION!

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS MATTER

Visitors will decide to stay or leave your

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stay or leave your website in 4 seconds

or less.

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INTRODUCTIONS HELP!

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87% of Internet users use search engines like Google to find information

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� 60% of donorsvisit a non-

profit’s website

PEOPLE WILL LOOK BEFORE THEY BUY

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profit’s website before giving

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MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY

Repeat giving for donors acquired through generic

giving pages is 66.7% lower

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66.7% lower than for donors who give via charity-branded giving

pages.

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SO WHAT’S THE POINT?

Websites must :

• Appeal and engage

• Reflect your identity, brand, and mission

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and mission

• Serve your audience and its segments

• Encourage visitors to take action

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NOW, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

• Blackbaud has designed and implemented more than 4,600 nonprofit websites since 2000

• In-house design agency specializing in Blackbaud

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specializing in Blackbaud products

• Over 70 years of combined design experience

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EMAIL IS AL IVE AND WELL

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EMAIL IS AL IVE AND WELL

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A WIDELY ADOPTED MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

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93% of internet users send or read email

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VOLUME IS HIGH …

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247 billion messages sent per day…More than 2.8 million emails are sent every second

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ATTENTION IS SCARCE

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12% of fundraising emails are opened

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SUBJECT MATTERS

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Indirect subject lines had a 21% open rate, but only a 4% response rate. The direct subject line had an 18% open rate and an 18% response rate.

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DIRECT AND PERSONAL WORKS!

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Email campaigns drive 43% of the online revenue across all sectors of nonprofits

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SO WHAT’S THE POINT?

• Email is effective

• There’s a lot of noise out there

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• Be timely, direct, and personal

• Pay attention & respond accordingly

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THE AUNT MABEL EFFECT CANNOT BE

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THE AUNT MABEL EFFECT CANNOT BE UNDERESTIMATED.(PEER TO PEER FUNDRAISING)

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MEET AUNT MABEL

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• More than $1.5 billion raised

• More than 14 millionindividual participants

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

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• The average participant receives 7 donations and raises $420

• 50% of the people who donate to p2p causes say they did so “because a friend asked me to”

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NO EVENT? NO PROBLEM!

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FUNDRAISE WHILE YOU SLEEP – YES, IT’S POSSIBLE

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SOCIAL MEDIA ISN’T A FAD

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IT’S NOT JUST CHIT CHAT

• Social media is the 4th most effective form of fundraising (ahead of direct mail!)

• Integrated social media tools increased fundraising by as much as 40%

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much as 40%

• Average gift from Facebook and Twitter: $40

• Blackbaud Friends Asking Friends raised over $1.5 Million via Facebook & Twitter in 2010

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• Everyone has an Aunt Mabel (or 12)

• Empowering supporters to fundraise on your behalf is an affordable,

SO WHAT’S THE POINT?

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behalf is an affordable, effective way to diversify fundraising methods

• In p2p fundraising, social media channels are a critical factor for success

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TRADIT IONAL FUNDRAIS ING HAS EVOLVED

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TRADIT IONAL FUNDRAIS ING HAS EVOLVED

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• 76% of new donors are acquired by direct mail

• 79% of all gifts came from direct mail

DIRECT MAIL STILL WORKS

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• For people ages 65+, new donors joining by mail outweighed those joining online by 11%

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• From ages 18-64 years, new donors acquired online beats those acquired by mail

• After three or four years,

DIRECT MAIL AND ONLINE WORK TOGETHER

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• After three or four years, about half of all online-acquired donors are giving offline gifts and over 40% are giving exclusively offline, primarily through direct mail

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AN INTEGRATED MULTICHANNEL STRATEGY IS CRITICAL

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We know what you’re thinking….“easier said than done!”(right?)

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ANOTHER WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

• Blackbaud Summer School!

• 5-part series focusing on key topics for nonprofits

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• Session 1: Integrated Fundraising presented by Ted Hart

• Registration opens June 23rd !

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HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR YOU

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WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?

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Q&A & CONCLUSION

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Q&A & CONCLUSION

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IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION

SUPPORT 1-800-468-8996

[email protected]

HTTP://WWW.BLACKBAUD.COM

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HTTP://WWW.BLACKBAUD.COM

HTTP://KB.BLACKBAUD.COM

HTTP://WWW.TECHSOUP.COM

HTTP://WWW.JOURNEYED.COM

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QUESTIONS?

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QUESTIONS?

FOR MORE INFORMATION:CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT MANAGERPHONE: 800 .443 .9441EMAIL: [email protected]

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THANK YOU FOR JOIN ING US!PLEASE REMEMBER TO TURN IN YOUR

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PLEASE REMEMBER TO TURN IN YOUR COMPLETED EVALUATION FORM

SPEC IAL THANKS TO OUR HOST:

THE PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

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THERE’S A STAT FOR THAT

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THERE’S A STAT FOR THATRACHEL S IMON , BLACKBAUDV ICTOR IA GO INS , BLACKBAUD