By DonorSearch
DonorSearch’s blog is dedicated to covering prospect screening and other fundraising-related topics, yet our readers and customers often ask how they can keep their donor databases clean. So we reached out to Steven Shattuck at Bloomerang to share a few strategies for how nonprofits can keep their donor databases clean. A nonprofit can never reach their full fundraising potential unless their donor database has clean, actionable data. Making sure that data is accurate when it’s first inputted is one challenge. Keeping it that way is quite another. If you ever want accurate prospect screening results or useful reports, you must keep your donor database clean and tidy. Here are four tips:<script type=”text/javascript”>jQuery(function() {<script type=”text/javascript”>jQuery(function() { jQuery(“#BLOGBUTTON”).click(function() { jQuery(‘#emailmsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#blogmsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#lnamemsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘.responseds’).css(‘color’,’#d36d22 !important’); jQuery(‘#fnamemsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#msg’).html(“”); var errors = ‘no’; if ((document.forms[“blogForm”][“FNAME”].value == null || document.forms[“blogForm”][“FNAME”].value == “” )){ jQuery(‘#fnamemsg’).html(“First Name required”); errors = ‘yes’; } if ((document.forms[“blogForm”][“LNAME”].value == null || document.forms[“blogForm”][“LNAME”].value == “” )){ jQuery(‘#lnamemsg’).html(“Last Name required”); errors = ‘yes’; } if((document.forms[“blogForm”][“blogMsg”].value == null || document.forms[“blogForm”][“blogMsg”].value == “”)){ jQuery(‘#blogmsg’).html(“Please give us some details!”); errors = ‘yes’; } if (!(/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(document.forms[“blogForm”][“EMAIL”].value))) { jQuery(‘#emailmsg’).html(“Email required”); errors = ‘yes’; } if (errors == ‘no’){ if (document.forms[“blogForm”][“testfield”].value == null || document.forms[“blogForm”][“testfield”].value == “” ){ jQuery(‘.btn-donorsearch’).prop(‘disabled’, true); jQuery.ajax({ type:’post’, crossOrigin:true, url: ‘/dscustom/generic-handler.php’, data: jQuery(‘#blogForm’).serialize() }) .done(function(data){ jQuery(‘.btn-donorsearch’).prop(‘disabled’, false); jQuery(‘#blogForm’).trigger(“reset”); jQuery(‘#emailmsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#blogmsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#fnamemsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#lnamemsg’).html(“”); jQuery(‘#msg’).html(‘Awesome! We will be in touch.’); }) .fail(function(data){ console.log(data); jQuery(‘#msg’).html(‘We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Please contact us directly at info@donorsearch.net’); }); } } });});</script>
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