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This confidential information is kept in a secure database and is on maintained to comply with 501(c)(3) and IRS regulations in addition to specific grant reporting requirements. It is also used to track and analyze donor data and to inform donors about upcoming events, activities, giving opportunities, and gift acknowledgments, and to provide tax-receipts for gifts. Select information is shared with appropriate staff, board members, volunteers and consultants only on a confidential and need-to-know basis.
GMCN does not sell, rent, trade, or share its donor list with any other organizations. In addition, it does not send out mailings on behalf of other organizations.
It is the policy of GMCN to communicate with donors according to their expressed preferences whenever possible. GMCN will discontinue or change the method used to contact any person upon that person’s oral or written request directed to the organization, its development staff, or another agent.
GMCN shall maintain a record of all requests by persons who indicate to the Nursery, its professional fundraiser, or other agents, that they do not wish to be contacted by or on behalf of Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery.
This policy does not prohibit contact by an individual or group voluntarily soliciting on behalf of Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, even if the person being contacted has requested to be placed on the “do not contact list”.
Upon a person’s (or a person’s authorized representative’s) request that Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery discontinue further contacts, the person’s name and address will be promptly modified in GMCN’s donor database to ensure that no further contact is made with the person.
Permanent Record: GMCN will maintain an electronic record of requests for discontinuance of contacts, effective with the adoption of this policy. Oral requests will be noted in writing by GMCN staff and permanently recorded in the electronic donor database. The records of persons who have made such a request will be maintained by GMCN to the extent necessary.
GMCN subscribes to the Donor Bill of Rights, which was created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits.