Melissa Data

Your donor database gets dirty over time, causing you to lose touch with donors, and waste money on undeliverable mail – all of which affects your ability to hit your fundraising goals. Melissa can help. Our solutions clear away the clutter. Clean and update old addresses, phone numbers, emails and more. Start spring cleaning – get 15% off.

Big things are happening in the mailing world – and every nonprofit should be in the know! Join our web series to learn about Informed Delivery, which allows nonprofits to digitally engage with donors before their mail reaches their mailbox. Plus, learn how to comply with the new change-of-address requirements to avoid costly errors. Webcast airs March 14th at 2pm EST. Reserve now!

Last year, 30% of the donor contacts in your database became stale due to individuals moving, changing jobs, etc. Melissa’s Listware helps get your database back in shape for 2018. Listware cleans and updates missing or incorrect people data – names, addresses, phone numbers and emails – to improve outreach and increase donations! Try it out – get 1,000 free credits!

Need to increase donations? Enriching your records with information you didn’t have before opens up opportunities to target donors just like your best ones, reach out in new ways and customize your messaging for better response rates. Check out how Listware Online will transform your contact data from ragged to enriched in this video!

(Press release, Jan. 21, 2015) — Melissa Data, a provider of contact data quality and address management solutions, announced the availability of real-time email mailbox verification for its Global Email Cloud Service solution. Email mailbox verification helps remove up to 95 percent of bad emails in a customer database and is a critical tool in improving email deliverability. With this feature, users have a powerful new tool to help prevent bouncebacks and avoid spam traps — protecting sender reputation from blacklisting.

This session helps you sort through data issues and offers ideas to avoid the typical traps, such as collecting it and then wasting it.

Here’s to your continued success and growth in 2015 and beyond. And here’s to finding the right partners to help you along the way with the 2015 Fundraising Resource Guide.

Someone has hijacked the tax identity of more than 2,300 tiny or defunct nonprofits, apparently taking advantage of a hole in a new electronic Internal Revenue Service filing system to list the same person as a charitable official at the same mail box drop in Las Vegas.

The charities, most of which seem to be religious in nature, all identify a “principal officer” as one William Alexander of Non Profit Accounting Services, with a stated location at a mail-box office address on N. Rainbow Blvd. in Las Vegas.

This week's insider includes a contact data appliance, a consultant acquisition and a new crowd-funding platform for fundraisers.

This week's industry news includes a new partnership, recognition for a women-run business, and an Ebbie Award winner.