Auctions are one of the ultimate donor data management challenges. You’ve got IRS regulations, specialized software requiring data integration, and event data tracking. In this post, we’ll focus on IRS rules that impact donated items, auction purchases, and event ticket donations.

Increasingly, there are tons of specialized software tools that nonprofits use in addition to their primary donor database, like auction, email or volunteer management software. Are you trying to decide whether to adopt a third-party tool and get it to play nicely with your donor database? Read on for some tips to make your software play nicely.

Spring event season is well under way in fundraising land. If you are not yet using your database to track event attendance, or you’d like to improve your tracking, then read on!