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Thinking Forward Instead of Looking Backwards
Thinking Forward Instead of Looking BackwardsIt's now more important than ever that you consider your investment in technology...At Sleek Consulting we have been managing fundraising and engagement technology since 1991. We have worked on about 200 successful system...
Why it’s STILL a great time to be a fundraiser
Why It's Still a Great Time to be a FundraiserBy Melanie J. Norton, CFRE, MBA Founder and CEO Norton Philanthropic CounselShare thisStrategy Will Always Drive Fundraising Success, Even After COVID-19This decade started in a way no one would...
8 Reasons To Switch From The Raiser’s Edge To Salesforce
8 Reasons to Switch from Raiser's Edge to SalesforceShare this Free Data Conversions*We know that COVID-19 has taken a toll on our customers. Non-profits, K-12, higher education, and healthcare are getting hit hard, so we wanted to help. Data...
Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant Certification Exam
Education Cloud Consultant Certification Exam Q&A with Chris Parker HuntSalesforce released a new education cloud consultant certification at the end of 2019. Chris Parker Hunt, Sleek’s VP of Strategic Programs, took the Education Cloud Consultant exam at the tail...
Pardot: Marketing Automation for Higher Education Organizations and Non-Profits.
Pardot: Marketing Automation for Higher Education Organization and Non-ProfitsPardot is a marketing automation solution provided by the world's #1 CRM, Salesforce. It’s typically pitched as a B2B solution, but we’ve found that it’s also a powerful solution for...
8 Tips In Increase Your Productivity In The Raiser’s Edge
8 Tips to Increase Your Productivity In The Raiser's Edge Fundraising databases have loads of functionality, but with so many features, some inevitably get overlooked. Whether you are a beginner or a Raiser's Edge expert, here are 8 tips to help you increase your...
The Ultimate Advancement System Implementation Guide: An Overview
The Ultimate Guide to Advancement Systems Implementations A series of articles with tips, tricks, and specific tools for ensuring you have a successful implementation within your budget and timeline Other Articles In this Series: An Overview What Do Your...
How To Engage Donors and Energize Giving
Alumni donations can be tricky business. Knowing how to engage alumni to give back isn’t an easy task and keeping them engaged for repeat payments can be just as challenging. The following tips might help you to increase the number of donors to your organization and their donation sizes.
21st Century Fundraising: Personalized Communication at Scale
21st Century Fundraising: Personalized Communication at Scale You used to have to choose between personalized communication and efficient communication. It simply wasn't feasible to hand-craft a letter to every prospect. But what if you could automate it? What if you...
21st Century Fundraising: Know Your Naming Opportunities
21st Century Fundraising: Know Your Naming Opportunities Have you ever lost track of an in-kind gift, picture, or plaque? If a donor randomly drops in, how easily can you find their named brick, room, or chair? Do you have a complete inventory of all your donor's...
21st Century Fundraising: Creating Donor Honor Rolls on the Fly
21st Century Fundraising: Creating Donor Honor Rolls on the Fly How easy is it for you to create a donor honor roll? Do you ever worry that you don't have accurate donor giving totals? How long does it take you to be sure that you're recognizing donors correctly?...
Integrated Email Communications: A 21st Century Approach
21st Century Fundraising: Integrate Email Communication to Optimize Your Donor Interaction On-DemandHave you lost emails to your donors and prospects? Do you have to toggle between your email application and CRM to ensure your emails contain accurate information? When...
Boost Your Reporting Power with Tableau Integration
21st Century Fundraising: Boost Your Reporting Power with a Tableau Integration On-DemandHow many steps does it take for you to get constituent data into your reporting software? Do you export it from your database, format it, then import it into another tool? How...
Direct Mail: Start Looking at Your Appeals from Your Donor’s Perspective w/ Paul Barry of Cape Cod Mail Group
21st Century Fundraising – Direct Mail: Start Looking at Your Appeals from Your Donor’s Perspective On-DemandDirect mail continues to generate significant revenue for many institutions, yet many don’t focus on it as they once did. The reason? They’re convinced that,...
Jumpstart Your Fundraising Operation Through Integration w/ Frank Choi
21st Century Fundraising – Jumpstart Your Fundraising Operation Through Integration w/ Frank Choi From DonorSearch On-Demand We all know the CRM is the engine of a fundraising department. But without the proper tools and data, it is merely a place to hold information....
Hitting the Fundraising Trifecta W/ Melanie J Norton
21st Century Fundraising – Hitting the Trifecta: Three Core Fundraising Strategies for Success in and Beyond the Pandemic On-Demand In the best of circumstances, a number of factors impact an organization’s capacity for fundraising success, not the least of which...
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How a Database Can Tell a Story
Introduction When Brookdale Community College (BCC) found out Raiser's Edge Seven was being phased out, they found themselves at a crossroads. They weren’t particularly happy with their system to begin with. Accessing and extracting data was an arduous task. Nancy...
QSS Updates and Enhancements – December 2023
QSS Updates and Enhancements - December 2023 Campaign Record Type and Page Layout Cleanup Campaigns are a versatile object in Salesforce often used by many different departments/roles. We've revamped our Campaign page layouts and picklist values to make their use more...
How Phonathon Becomes a Call, Text, and Email Engagathon in the Digital Age
We're modernizing an age-old solution! While most of your constituents have a mailing address, email address and a cell phone, they all have a preferred way to receive communications from you. Are you equipped to effectively and efficiently engage with them across all...
2024 QSS™ for Education Cloud Showcases/Webinars
Join us for a virtual technology open house! We hope you're as excited as we are about the release of Salesforce's Education Cloud. This will be the only industry-specific solution for educational institutions to include the cutting-edge functionality that some...
Maximize the Return on Your Screening Dollars
Wealth screening tools are a powerful element of the fundraiser's arsenal. But are you using yours the right way? We're sharing strategies to help you screen your donors like a prospect management pro. If you're paying per screening, it's worth taking the time to make...
Digital Interactivity: Engage with Forms, Live Dashboards, and Gamification
What makes someone decide to give you their time or money? How do you increase engagement in our digital world? We want to show you a set of tools designed to get people involved. If one of the most important factors in a donor's decision to give is how much they...
How a Database Can Tell a Story
Introduction When Brookdale Community College (BCC) found out Raiser's Edge Seven was being phased out, they found themselves at a crossroads. They weren’t particularly happy with their system to begin with. Accessing and extracting data was an arduous task. Nancy...
QSS Updates and Enhancements – December 2023
QSS Updates and Enhancements - December 2023 Campaign Record Type and Page Layout Cleanup Campaigns are a versatile object in Salesforce often used by many different departments/roles. We've revamped our Campaign page layouts and picklist values to make their use more...
How Phonathon Becomes a Call, Text, and Email Engagathon in the Digital Age
We're modernizing an age-old solution! While most of your constituents have a mailing address, email address and a cell phone, they all have a preferred way to receive communications from you. Are you equipped to effectively and efficiently engage with them across all...
2024 QSS™ for Education Cloud Showcases/Webinars
Join us for a virtual technology open house! We hope you're as excited as we are about the release of Salesforce's Education Cloud. This will be the only industry-specific solution for educational institutions to include the cutting-edge functionality that some...
Maximize the Return on Your Screening Dollars
Wealth screening tools are a powerful element of the fundraiser's arsenal. But are you using yours the right way? We're sharing strategies to help you screen your donors like a prospect management pro. If you're paying per screening, it's worth taking the time to make...
Digital Interactivity: Engage with Forms, Live Dashboards, and Gamification
What makes someone decide to give you their time or money? How do you increase engagement in our digital world? We want to show you a set of tools designed to get people involved. If one of the most important factors in a donor's decision to give is how much they...
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