May 13, 2014
Vermont Italian Club uses Wufoo forms and LGL to manage interests from membersThe Problem The Vermont Italian Club does a terrific job of customizing communications for their members. To do this requires collecting information on what each member is interested in. They wanted to streamline that process. The Solution The Vermont Italian Club added a list of…
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Maryland Hillel uses LGL and MailChimp to send targeted emailsThe Problem Maryland Hillel has many thousands of constituents and wanted to send customized emails based on matching the affiliations their constituents have to their organization. The Solution Maryland Hillel uses a variety of attributes in their LGL account to create segments of constituents, using values…
Read ArticleApril 29, 2014
5 ways to find donors hiding in plain sightLGL is pleased to announce our new partnership with DonorSearch, a leading prospect research and screening firm, and to publish this guest post from Bill Tedesco, DonorSearch's founder and CEO, on our blog. In the financial sector, past performance is not an indicator of future…
Read ArticleFebruary 18, 2014
4 tips for keeping your donor database healthyIn the same way our bodies do, keeping a database healthy requires consistent work. This post gives you some practical methods for achieving database health, or what is sometimes referred to as reachability, a focus on answering the questions, "can you contact everyone in your database to…
Read ArticleFebruary 13, 2014
Custom reporting saves valuable time for the Sant Bani School development coordinatorSome organizations choose to enter each donation twice, once in their donor management system and again in their accounting system, as a way to provide checks and balances in their system. The upside is increased protection against errors while the downside is increased time by…
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How Sacred Heart School expects to increase its advancement revenue by 50% this yearGrowing a school's annual giving program can be a challenge. When Sacred Heart School in Boston assigned Mary Roberts that task, the majority of donations that came in to the almost 100 year old school were unsolicited. Mary needed to develop an outreach strategy that would allow…
Read ArticleJanuary 13, 2014
Data security and Little Green Light “After people, data is your most important resource.” -- John Kenyon Introduction We're often asked, "How secure will my data be in LGL?" Being in the cloud, we certainly understand where the question is coming from. Typically, assessing risk in relation to data and IT…
Read ArticleJanuary 13, 2014
If you use Mandrill and you have a Yahoo! or AOL email address (or hotmail or gmail), read on…ISPs (Internet service providers) such as Yahoo! and AOL have recently implemented DMARC, a technical specification, the goal of which is to help reduce the potential for email-based abuse such as spamming, spoofing, and phishing. This means that if your email is being sent from…
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Flex importer updates – detailed review, improved error reporting, and “undo”Flex Importer is the tool in LGL that lets you import any kind of information about your donors and their related activities. It has always been flexible and powerful, but we've recently made it a lot better too. Here's a quick summary of the new…
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Constant Contact launched with LGLWe're excited to announce that our Constant Contact integration is now available to all LGL customers, and that LGL customers new to Constant Contact will receive a 25% discount on email marketing. Constant Contact provides email, social media marketing, and event services to over 100,000 nonprofits.…
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