by Oz du Soleil | Apr 26, 2013 | Data Management, Data Management for Nonprofits, Spreadsheet Development, Tips
Nonprofits, by their definition, are primarily funded by the public. That means they’re always fundraising. It helps a nonprofit to know: How much did it cost to raise $1? Nonprofit fundraising can get complex, time-consuming and expensive, sometimes...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 16, 2013 | Case Studies, Data Integrity, Data Management, Data Management for Nonprofits
Steve, the nonprofit Volunteer Coordinator, has a meeting with the Executive Director and a major donor in 3 hours, and Steve needs data! The canned reports in the cloud-based CRM aren’t formatted for details on volunteers, but Steve believes he can manually...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 5, 2013 | Data Integrity, Data Management
Data Cleansing (Data Scrubbing) the process of amending or removing data that is incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or duplicated. WARNING Hold on to your hat. This can get ugly. The cost of cleaning data is tough to get at. I used to charge $150 to...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 4, 2013 | Data Integrity, Data Management
Data Management: Process by which required data is acquired, validated, stored, protected, and processed, and by which its accessibility, reliability, and timeliness are ensured to satisfy the needs of the data users. (BusinessDirectory.com) In my previous...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 1, 2013 | Data Management
LEARN TO LOVE YOUR DATA DUMPS I am hearing more and more that people don’t know what’s in their data, what to ask of their data, especially “how do I get at what I do know I’m looking for?” Here’s a story: THE INFORMATION IS...
