Donation‐processing firms offer security, savings during busy giving season

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30133
• Date: 01 December 2015
• Published date: 01 December 2015

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Donation-processing rms offer security, savings

during busy giving season

processing rm to handle donations could pay off:

• Security. This is the biggest concern, Sayre

said, noting that recent data breaches have left

With many nonprots seeing a surge of dona-

tions to process in the nal weeks of the year, it

may behoove them to make use of professionals

that are set up to handle the task in a cost-effective

and secure environment, said Bill Sayre of Merkle

RMG, a “response management” rm that handles

donation processing derived from direct mail fund-

raising campaigns.

“Our data show that about 70 percent of nonprots

have concerns about in-house processing of dona-

tions,” Sayre told Nonprot Business Advisor. “Out-

sourcing the job to a rm that specializes in it takes

care of those worries, at minimal cost in the end.”

Sayre points to several key areas where hiring a

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