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CRM Meets NPO, a love story

Jan 19 2010

What if not-for-profit organizations (NPO) thought more strategically and mirrored their marketing efforts to those of most for-profits in terms of customer relationship management?

Donors and volunteers are the lifeline of all nonprofit organizations. Yet few NPOs maintain a reliable database to extract such valuable information as age, gender, marital status, demographics, participation activity, etc. Information collected and stored by nonprofits most often pertains to fundraising events (eg. donations generated) and not the participants themselves.  Any information relating back to volunteers and donors are often limited and cannot be analyzed over a historic period because most not-for-profits haven't properly 'married' such data with the proper CRM tools (See 'Selecting Your Marketing Automation').  Although it would make this a different kind of love story, the same is true for NGOs. But for the sake of all that is wholesome, we will not digress.

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