February 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…
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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…
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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.…
Read ArticleJanuary 4, 2014
Simple ideas for Little Green Light data cleanupCleaning up your donor database can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. With these simple ideas, you can get your Little Green Light database in shape quick—and just in time for your fall fundraising appeals! Identify and merge any duplicate records If…
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Mailings 2.0 release preview mail merge made easyWe're excited to announce the release of a major upgrade to the mail merge features that are built into Little Green Light, currently slated to go live in mid-October 2012. This release builds on and improves the existing mail merge features in LGL, with the…
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Temple Beth Am ratchets up their giving with help from LGLWhen Jenna Sytman did the math, she was really quite stunned. A million dollars over the next three years. That's how much she projects she will be able to increase her organization's dues contributions from its members. That's almost a 25% annual increase. On top…
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Little Green Light release preview for April 2012: Customize and schedule reportsWouldn’t it be nice if you could build a report one time, and then be able to re-run it with a couple clicks whenever you want a fresh copy? Or even better, have LGL run it for you on a schedule and email you the…
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