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…
Read ArticleMay 13, 2014
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 24, 2014
Do you know how to accept donations online?This article describes at a high level what is needed for a nonprofit to collect online donations. Even with the simplifications I've made here, you'll see that there are a number of pieces to the puzzle. In the diagram below you'll see three important building…
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 15, 2014
Does your organization suffer from data rot?It’s no surprise that you will have better fundraising success the more you’re able to reach your intended audience. In fact, the data append company Updentity has seen up to 900% increases in year-over-year donations from improved contact information and better utilization of staff time.…
Read ArticleJanuary 13, 2014
LGL included in IdealWare reportLittle Green Light is delighted to be included in IdealWare’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems, 2011 edition. When IdealWare last issued this report in early 2009, LGL had not even been launched to the public yet! This guide reviews 29 systems, and we…
Read ArticleJanuary 13, 2014
Look who’s talking up LGLWe've been thrilled by the response we've received so far from our customers and partners who have joined our Affiliate and Refer-a-friend programs. One of the greatest compliments we can receive is when one of our customers recommends our service to other nonprofits. It is the single most important…
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