August 10, 2000

2 Groups Release Protocols for Data on Donations

By NICOLE WALLACE

The issue of data standards for the non-profit world is heating up. Two for-profit organizations have released non-profit data-exchange protocols. The protocols are specifications for formatting data about charitable donations so that information about gifts can move easily between computer applications.

For example, charities that use a fund-raising database that follows one of the protocols would be able to easily import information about

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