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Strategy, Guides & News for the Nonprofit CommunityQ&A with Ryan Motkowicz, CRM Consultant
Zuri Group is thrilled to announce that Ryan Motkowicz has joined the Zuri family as a Blackbaud CRM Consultant. Ryan specializes in post go-live stabilization, providing users with the tools and training necessary to becoming proficient in BBCRM after transition. His...
read moreLet Your Donors Feel the Love
Unpopular opinion: I really love Valentine’s Day. Okay, yes – it is a manufactured, over-commercialized, greeting card holiday – but it’s also an opportunity to let the people who matter to you know that you’re thinking about them. I don’t know about you, but with the...
read moreTen Characteristics of a Great Fundraising Operations Team Member
The competition for talent in advancement services and development operations is steep. There is no standard educational path to these positions. No one goes to college to run data and gift management for a university. The skills needed also go well beyond the soft...
read moreQ&A with John Auwaerter, Senior Technical Consultant
Zuri Group is thrilled to announce that John Auwaerter has joined the Zuri family as Senior Technical Consultant. John brings with him over 20 years experience with Blackbaud software and is the leading subject matter expert in infrastructure, application, and...
read more2019 Nonprofit Conference Roundup
A new year means getting to plan which nonprofit conferences we'll be attending in 2019 - here's a look at our list so far: FEBRUARY P2P Professional Forum Conference | New Orleans, LA MARCH DRIVE/ Conference | Baltimore, MD CASE D1 Conference | Boston, MA JUNE bb...
read moreUser Acceptance Testing: Tooling ,Test Cases, and Training
When you mention User Acceptance Testing, people sometimes get that deer-in-the-headlights look. UAT can be daunting – but we’ve got five steps that your organization can use to develop a testing plan that will help ensure a smooth and successful round of UAT. ...
read moreExpectation Management and the Consumer Experience
We are barreling toward Black Friday and the heralding of all things Christmas and Holidays, which means one thing: we have expectation management problems. Now, this article isn't about keeping up with the Jones' and parents buying their kiddos an iPhone when they...
read moreNonprofit Forecast: Advancement Services in 2019
Where We Are 2018 is a weird and wonderful time for advancement services. On the wonderful side, the industry's focus on new trends in data science, interoperability, social data management, and marketing automation have pushed advancement services into an...
read moreThe Fight for Data: Total Lockdown or Complete Chaos
Getting data (reports, queries, mailing lists, exports, dashboards, etc.) out of any fundraising system is a universal challenge in the nonprofit sector– regardless of the CRM system used. Pulling data accurately requires deep and specialized knowledge of the tools,...
read moreUser Acceptance Testing: Purpose & Impact
If you’ve ever implemented a new software application or a new customized feature in your current applications, you’ve most likely heard of User Acceptance Testing or UAT. In this first installment of our series on User Acceptance Testing, we’ll define it, explain its...
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